rob aylestone
Moderator
We create quite a lot of well known songs as stage tracks - think click tracks, backing tracks - the things you use on stage. Tribute bands and 70's shows are common users of tracks and they tend to fall into two types. Tracks where there isn't a full compliment of singers and band members - sometimes for practical reasons. It could be a singer, and bass, keys, drums and guitar, but the songs they need to play need extra guitars, and strings, that kind of thing. The other type of requirement is where the tracks are used as 'emergency' tracks, where they come up on the desk but don't get used unless there's a problem. If you are playing bigger venues, what do you do when somebody has a sore throat, or cuts their finger, or the sax player has a split lip? Everyone plays to a click and if necessary, the sound op just raises a fader.
In this example, it's a Carpenters song, and if you are going to do Carpenters, the audience will expect to hear all those harmonies. Without them, the songs are not complete.
This video points out the critical features, how we record them and how they get used. The song is Close to You and there are over 20 harmony tracks. In this case, the main melody of the song won't ever be used, it's just a guide vocal for the rest.
In this example, it's a Carpenters song, and if you are going to do Carpenters, the audience will expect to hear all those harmonies. Without them, the songs are not complete.
This video points out the critical features, how we record them and how they get used. The song is Close to You and there are over 20 harmony tracks. In this case, the main melody of the song won't ever be used, it's just a guide vocal for the rest.