click tracks

Hi group,

The thread about singing with guitar and vox at one time made me think about this. When I make a song and am going for better than demo finished product, I feel like the whole thing needs to be synced to a click track to be right.

However, i know this introduces an element of rigidness that would be present in a live performance.

Anyone else think about this?

Aaron Anodide

Hey Aaron, how ya been?

Try playing the scratch tracks to the click and then dropping the click out when you starts building the tracks up. You won't always get that lack of feel but even way down the line a song will pop up that a click just makes dead. Some you win and some you lose

Yesterday I tracked 7 songs with a five piece. We used a click on 3 of them I think. There was a slow song that would have been great with a click but the click kept bleeding through to the overheads on the quite passages so we opted out of it and just tracked normal. You just never know.

If I'm just recording ideas, I don't record with a click.

Otherwise, I always use something to keep the beat. But. Playing with a click can be... different and antiseptic. If you want more of a swing feel, set the click to only click on the 2nd and 4th beats. But even better than a click, find a drum loop that fits and play to that. It gives you more of a feel of playing off of something.

Watson (the pencil neck) Davis

Watson Said:

> But even better than a click, find a drum loop that fits and play to

This is how I almost always track, especially since I'm going to end up using loops for my drums anyway. If you use 'real' drum loops vs. midi loops, you get a pretty natural human feel to the groove. I'm just now trying out Fruity Loops demo at the suggestion of a friend, and I wonder if 'humanize' works?...

I hate tracking to clicks, but do it when nesc...

BTW, started reading this thread and when I saw a post from L*wman M*rk it freaked me out... NOOOOO not again!!!! Then I realized it was an old post... Shwooooo.

I haven't tried Fruity Loops. I'm just now getting into the whole loop thing.

I actually got to be pretty good at this. But it took a lot of work.

What's interesting is to watch someone playing to a click track who's either having a problem with the music or concentrating on what they're playing instead of the click. It's bizarre to listen to the click and see the person's foot (and hear their part) start wandering off the time.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!

Man. Don't resurrect THAT troll.

Watson (the pencil neck) Davis