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July 20, 2008 in Video

For The Birds - Brad and Bobby laying down a scratch track of “The Lights”

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Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com July 21st, 2008 at 12:44 am

As always, there are more ways to do a certain thing…I know things are done differently depending on conditions, but I am used to record one track at a time, is this just for testing or what?

drjblog July 21st, 2008 at 7:01 am

No, we commonly build “scratch tracks” – this band is most comfortable playing when everyone can hear all the parts. We mic everything and record the drums while everyone plays; the headphone mix allows everyone to hear everyone else. Drummer is set up in the drum room, one guitar and 2 vocals in the vocal booth, keyboard and bass player are playing direct into the board. When we’re satisfied with drums, we start adding the “real” tracks by recording everyone else’s instrument. Those scratch tracks serve to let the person recording hear the “whole song” (and sometimes those tracks are the best take, so we try to make sure that they sound great, too!).

Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com July 22nd, 2008 at 12:07 am

I understand now. I am used to record songs using computer recorded drums, and there is easier from this point of view, this way everything can be fixed in case the drummer has tempo variations or something else happens.
Plus that in my area we don’t have any studio with drums, so our recording are done with digital drums.

drjblog July 22nd, 2008 at 6:21 am

That reminds me of a joke:

–Why is a drum machine better than a drummer?

Because it can keep good time and won’t sleep with your girlfriend.

Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com July 24th, 2008 at 12:31 am

That’s a good one, reminds me to keep an eye on my drummer next time I see him

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