What order do you record instruments when multitracking?

[Wazzacorbett]

for me

Drums
acoustics
rough made up vox (great fun and great help i find for the finished lyric!)
electrics
keys
bass
proper vox
percussion

I dont think i've ever rehearsed any of the parts I play, i sometimes even go into a new song 1st take without some bits of the basic tune i want and see what i come up with!, so far i've been lucky and am happy with the result and then add to it whilst the fire is hot

 

[mwthompson]

I usually start with a programmed scratch drum track, but after that it could be guitar, bass, or keyboards, depending on what I'm hearing in my head.

I tend to write and track at the same time, with the notion that the entire mix is going to be a scratch mix and that I'll start later with a clean file for the "final" version.

Right now, I have about three songs "scratch mixed" and another five or six in the writing stages. When I finish everything, I'm going to retrack all the songs consecutively so they all sorta "match" when I put them on the CD my friends and relatives will pretend to like.

 

[mwthompson]

I dont think i've ever rehearsed any of the parts I play, i sometimes even go into a new song 1st take without some bits of the basic tune i want and see what i come up with!, so far i've been lucky and am happy with the result and then add to it whilst the fire is hot

Hehe, I do that too when I'm hitting that writer's block. Sometimes what comes out in a completely random manner ends up being cool.

All my guitar solos are generally improv until I do one that I like the arrangement on. Then, I "learn" it, tweak and finally settle.

 

[ryansanders]

I've never done this.. but I would personally try to get another musician to play at the same time the drummer is drumming.. just to give him something to go by.

I dunno... a friend of mine recorded with his old band and if I remember correctly, they recorded the whole band first.. then they did each part. And they would individually fix each drum beat that was a little off time or whatever. Thats a professional studio though.. and it sounds like your having to do one thing at a time.

 

[tbone88]

bass
drums
guitar
keyboard

if it's a very piano driven song, i do piano before guitar

 

[PsychoticTurtle]

Drums
Guitar
Keyboards
Bass
Post Effects (Reverb, Panning, etc.)

 

[jndietz]

I have the drummer record to a click first, and if he gets off time, I just ask him to get back on time. This is also with a scratch guitar and vocal going on at the same time.

After that, I go back and do the guitars and leads, then the bass, then the vocals. Of course, all of these are recorded to the drums and not the click -- otherwise it would be off time.

 

[genesisariana]

Scratch guitar or piano
Scratch vocal
Drums
Bass
Guitar or Piano
Solo parts / horn stabs
Lead vocal
Backup vocal
Percussion / extras

 

[skigib]

Well, who doesn't keep the kazoo track in the mix?

Man... someone should construct an organ that replaces the air-driven pipes with kazoos. What a sound that would be. Yikes.

I would like to see a bass-kazoo that produces the bottom spectrum of a piano

I like to start with scratch kazoo, then add rhythm kazoo and lead kazoo later in the mix.