mixdown now or later?

[muzicman8739]

Hey, I have a question, and I hope someone can help me.
I'm recording a singer to an 8 track digital recorder. I'm using synths for all of the instrumentation, and I normally end up using that many tracks just for the synths. What I want to know is if my mix will sound better or worse by bouncing the tracks down to two before recording the vocals?

 

[regebro]

If you do it right, it will sound better, if you do it wrong, it will sound worse. Unhelpful answer, I know, but it's the truth.

If you have a mixer with some extra inputs you can sync a sequencer to the recording, that way you get the extra parts of keyboards without having to bounce the tracks.

And anyway....less is more!

 

[muzicman8739]

thanks

hey thanks,

believe it or not you actually helped me quite a bit. I'm going to try your idea, and see how it sounds when I just automate the fade ins/outs on the sequencer.


Thanks again,
da muzicman

 

[sjoko2]

I don't know what kind of digital recorder you are using, or if you have access to editing but:
You could bounce your synth tracks down to a stereo mix, and record this mix onto another disk / tape, using the latter to record your vocals onto. At least that way you will have your original tracks all intact in case you want to make any changes.