Recording Tips for Bands

When you finally do pick the ideal studio, one that you are feeling confident at, there’s a certain routine that has to be followed to get the best performance and the best recording for your dollar.

Tune Your Instruments. This also includes your drums and any tunable percussion instruments you may have. There’s nothing worse in the world than to have a wonderfully written tune with a perfect performance be ruined because somelazy one failed to take an extra two minutes to test their tuning. Tuning takes 1 or 2 minutes ; a recording lasts for evermore.

Be thoroughly rehearsed. You’ll be surprised how many bands suffer when they get the recording bill.  The real reason for that is because they confuse rehearsal time with recording time. Practice at home, in the garage, at your uncle’s house ; anywhere but at the recording studio. When you reach the studio, you should know your pieces inside-out and be prepared for the red recording signal.

Practice with a metronome. A lot of drummers unable to play with a metronome. Make sure drummer can. A click track is essential in getting a good solid beat that the rest of the band can groove to, and to sync-up loops and delay times.

Be Early. Many studios start charging their clientele at the exact time that the the agreement states.  Because you decide to show up late, doesn’t mean the studio should give up that time for nothing. Be early and be ready to go. Not only that it’s disrespectful for your band buddies.

Get the sound right. Never, ever try to fix it in the mix. It doesn’t work like that. Take an additional few mins to change the sound before laying it down.  tweak that knob, tune that string, have another drink of water. Remember again, tweaking may take an extra minute, but the recording will last for all eternity.

Know when to give up. Recording often leads to reducing returns. Spending 20} in a row at the recording session isn’t going to make your song twice as good as spending ten hours. This rule also applies to the mix down. If you are exhausted, call the session and come back the following day awake and prepared.

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

Do comparisons. After letting the engineer do the first rough mix alone (which he should ) do an A / B comparison of your mix to some of your favourite CDs. Remember that the professional CDs you are listening to have recently been mastered. But it is a good way to compare levels and other elements.

Bring backups. Always bring spare strings, drum heads, bass strings, water bottles, throat lozenges, etc to a recording session. You may always need the one thing you forgot to bring, so bring it all and leave them at the studio until your recordings are finished.

Have a good time! This is the most vital reason of all. Making and recording music isn’t advanced science. Although there is a science concerned, you need to let the engineer stress about that. If you’re not having fun, then you are in the line of work! http://www.micsandmoreonline.com

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