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Originally Posted by PettyCash  The best thing to do is to try looking for an opportunity to sit in on a professional studio session (which usually means doing an internship) and see what you can learn and take back from it to your own recording situations.
A lot of pros deal with "comping" and chopp and slice multiple takes in order to put together one absolutely perfect sounding take. This is definitely most true when dealing with singers.
When working with rappers and attempting to put together verses via comping, you have to take care to make sure that the way all the words flow together sounds as natural as possible. This might require doing some crossfading between words to get them to flow into each other.
Trying to hide it poor connections between words/phrases with adlibs usually baits you out. |
yeah - you shouldn't need to try to hide it! I'd imagine Jay-Z's style is like that on purpose.
to get punch-ins tight, all you need to do is to get the talent to rap along with what he's already done, punch in for the line, punch out again - tape style. That way the flow fits, and there's leeway to move the drop a word or 2 either way for a good edit. (that's using pro-tools and quickpunch btw...I assume you can do the same sort of thing in any software).
And some people can do 1 take brilliantly, then go downhill...some people need a good few takes to warm up and then hit a good one or two...some do good bits and bad bits consistently and need comping/punching. A good engineer (and at this point, vocal producer - there's a lot of coaching the singer involved) should be able to cope with any variant of this.