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This is how I do it. Put a click track on (aka metronome) - record the guitar, then drums, then bass, then vocals. You can move the order around. I like to have the guitar down for the drums to feed off. Then record the bass to react to the kick drum pattern - they are usually in sync for rock. Put your vocal on there and then top it off with some keys, ...

The performers have their own vision on "time" and on "getting it right". These are the two points where you have to talk about, he sure wants to "get it right". So when you both have the thought that you're doing it perfect, you might not just want to record it once but record it multiple times. This allows you to easily replace the bad parts instead of ...

What Kim Burgaard said is very true. The vocalist has a lot of control over how their voice is recorded. As I'm a much inferior vocalist to those I record, it can be difficult teaching them this technique, as you just want to get a good take. So what I end up doing is have the vocalist scream. Well, I ask them to warm up and hit the loudest levels they can. ...

There's no reason why not. This practice is sometimes called "overdubbing." There are of course some considerations to think about: Bands often play off of each other in groups, and there's a sort of vibe that can come out when doing this that is very hard to capture when doing separate recordings. When you're overdubbing, you'll respond to little ...

It's been done before... before there were computers, using tape... Check out artists like Isoa Tomita ("early" synth musician), Vangelis, and to some extent Tangerine Dream. [As an aside: many groups still record with only a handful of musicians at one time. Often "extra" musicians (strings, brass) are brought in separately to do their fills after "the ...

Singing with an microphone, both live and recorded, can be improved with a little technique. Compression cannot compensate for clipping and, as you point out, some singers have an incredible dynamic range. If you look closely at vocalists who regularly perform with microphones, you will notice they either move the microphone or the head to increase the ...

I've encountered this a lot, and here's my advice on what to tell them It may not be possible to fix it later The "fix" might not sound natural, and may be noticeable to the average person It may take significant time to "fix" later Going from mixing back to tracking is time consuming The more you listen to something, the more you hear things you don't ...