Recording Tips for Bands

When you finally do pick the ideal studio, one that you are feeling snug at, there is a certain routine that has got to be followed to get the best performance and the best recording for your budget.

Tune Your Instruments. This also includes your drums and any tunable percussion instruments you’ll have. There’s nothing at all worse in the world than to have a wonderfully written tune with an ideal rendition be ruined because somelazy one failed to take an extra 2 mins to test their tuning. Tuning takes a couple of minutes ; a recording lasts forever .

Be thoroughly rehearsed. You’ll be shocked how many bands suffer when they get the final bill.  The main reason for this is because they confuse rehearsal time with recording time. Practice at home, in the garage, at your uncle’s house ; anywhere except at the recording studio. When you arrive at the studio, you need to know your pieces thoroughly and be ready for the recording signal.

Practice with a click track. A large amount of drummers aren’t able to play with a click track. Make sure yours can. A click track is important in getting a good solid rhythm track that the remainder of the band can lock in to, and to time loops and delay speed.

Arrive on time. Many studios start charging the clientele from the precise time agreed to in the contract.  Just because you make a decision to show up late, doesn’t mean the studio should give up that time for nothing. Be early and be in a position to go. Not only that it’s disrespectful for your band mates.

Get the sounds right. Never, ever try to fix it in the mix. It does not work like that. Take an extra few minutes to tweak the sound before recording it.  Turn that knob, tune that drumhead, have another drink of water. Remember again, tweaking may take an additional minute, but the recording will last forever.

Know when to give up. Recording often leads to diminishing returns. Spending twenty hours} straight at the recording studio isn’t about to make your song twice as good as spending ten hours. This rule also applies to the mix down. If you’re beat, call the session and come back the next day awake and prepared.

Record alone. Don’t bring your friends, family mothers and fathers or any one else into the studio. As fun as it could be, you are there to perform a job and record the best music possible. If you’re a millionaire, then by all possible means, have a do at the studio, but do not depend on getting much done.

Mix and match. After letting the engineer do the first coarse mix alone (which he should ) do an A / B comparison of your mix to some of your favourite CDs. Recall that the professional CDs you are listening to have just been mastered. But it’s a good way to compare equalization and panning.

Bring backups. Always bring spare strings, drum heads, bass strings, water bottles, throat lozenges, etc to a recording session. You can always need the most important thing you didn’t remember to bring, so carry it all and leave them at the studio till your recordings are done.

Have a good time! This is the most important point of all. Making and recording music isn’t rocket science. Though there’s a science concerned, you need to let the studio professional fret about that. If you’re not having a good time, then you’re in the line of work! http://www.micsandmoreonline.com