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across the ponds mix
This site has opened up endless ideas, is anyone interested in mixing a track, from artisit to artist. Lets say, someone puts a drumbeat down, sends that track to me, I add a guitar track, and send it to a bass player, who sends it to a vocalist, and so on. By the end we could have an awsome song, made by the Fuzz artists from all over the world who have never even met! it could be a real winner, any one up for it?
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I have played a few drum tracks but mostly I use a drum plugin software that I arrange manually.
Only 1 song on my profile (You don't know me) is real drums...the rest are programed.
But I do play all instruments (bass is my main).
We probably need someone to record a 'scratch' guitar track with maybe a vocal.
Left track could be the guitar & vocal and the right could be a tempo or click track.
If it was 120bps then it could be added into software and always be in time.
A tempo is very important to have though this project.
A universal bit rate should also be selected.
It doesn't matter is some people have a mutitrack program (Sonar, Protools) we can use both.
them separate! You also have to set the quality at a high level. If 24 bit is possible do it at 24bit/44khz wave file.
Now the email back to the main collector of the tracks will need a program like PANDO so a bit file can be retrieved! You could also post it on a web server.
Of course we could work with a much lower quality but the final recording will suffer somewhat.
A 128 bit guitar, 24/44k bass, 16/44k drums, 320bit vocal? Not sure what it would sound like! But it still might sound ok once it's mixed down all together.
Not sure if everyone has the resources to send large file sizes. If not we could still use various audio bit rates from everyone. The final mix software can adjust and fix this somewhat as well.
The first recording tracks could be done by anyone and doesn't have to start from the main recording.
Since this is Adamz idea maybe he could do a 'scratch track' to start this.
I would suggest doing a stereo mix of you playing guitar on left side with a drum beat or click tempo on the right with a guide vocal track with the beat as well (keep the guitar separate).
Make sure the guitar sound on the left track is the 'best' sound you can get and playing.
Then send it to me (at your best possible quality) and I can use it as a guide track to follow.
I would import it to the main project and add another instrument and then do a quick remix and send it to another person to add to. My mix will be mono so the next person can do a stereo recording with the reference tracks on right and their new instrument on the left. Back it comes to me and so on.
If we keep to a standard tempo (click track or beat) it will make it much easier when adding to the editing software.
If a 'live feel' timing is used then it can also work so a click track won't be needed.
Starting with a real drummer would work but would have to be sent with a music/vocal reference track.
What do you think?
Adam W.
Explain a scratch track to me, I have a web server where we can upload and download from, so file tranfer is no problem. How about if I compose this first, I have guitar pro, and could work a basic rythum section so we could all see chords etc, it would make things alot easier if we have a score. I'll keep it basic, now for recording, I keep the guitar on one side and a metronome on the other? so I would use the pan feature?
posted on Jan 29 @ 12:46 pm
I could play guitar or bass on a track. Preferably after the "foundation" is already laid down, and I would be the guy that adds to what is already there. This is mainly because I very well might be involved in 2 - 3 projects all together out here in the very near future, so that would be the only way for me to fit doing this into my chaoticly-organized schedule somewhere. It interest me for sure, I think it would be a lot of fun to see what kind of hybrid blend of sounds a group of people from all over the world could make and I would like to be involved with it if/when we can make it happen. peace,
As long as the main person mixing the recording has mutitrack capability it will work fine.
The web server will work great.
The main recording person will always have the master tracks in a project (maybe a 8 track project).
They have to be the one to do mixes to send to each separate musician.
The separate musicians only need to receive a mono mix and then send a stereo mix back with their good take on one side and the old reference track on the other.
Then back into the master mix their part goes. Of course it will have to be synced up using the reference track as a guide.
How many tracks can you in your audio editing software?
Ok, so i just put a sratch track down with a beat and upload it to the server, you then keep this on one side, and record next to it on the other side the new track, i.e. drums, bass etc. Then using a mixer would put these together, at the final stage. If everyone plays against the scratch track, we "should" all be in time and the final mixdown would be straight forward.
I have a song in mind I've been working on, I will score it over the weekend, and try and get this going. Just clarify this for me, when I record the scratch track, I pan the guitar to one side and the beat to the other? I will get the server set up today,