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Originally Posted by bino_5150  And it's funny, I was talking to one of the guys in the studio, and he was basically chastising me because I don't use Pro Tools, and "REAL" studios use Pro Tools...yada yada yada... And then half way through recording, they ran out of tracks! |
LOL!!!!! I love that. I get shit too sometimes, but I say, "listen to your stuff... now listen to MY stuff." That usually shuts them up pretty quick.
I think you are pretty much in deep shit with the distortion. I've had a couple moments with very minimal distortion where I've litterally redrawn waveforms (VERY hard and VERY time consuming). But we're talking a couple of tiny several cycle clips; nothing big. I honestly don't know of a way to get rid of distortion - if anyone had a sure fire way to do it they'd be a millionaire. If the distortion is bad and it's all over the place, then you might try adding some distortion to the entire track and make it a cool 'effect'.... hide one tree in a forest of trees kind of thing. Another trick is leave the vocal clean but put a delay on it and distort the delay (distortion before delay in terms of signal flow) which might be just enough to 'trick' the listener.
That said, keep it in perspective. Sometimes the perfectionist in us freaks out about technical things that might not be that big of a deal. I just mixed a record that had enough clipping on the vocal tracks to have me cursing and holding my head in my hands. But honestly, after I mixed it you could barely tell where the distortion was and it didn't sound bad. And the track is being picked up in rotation here in market numero uno. Go figure. I guess some distortion in the vocals isn't that big of a deal sometimes! So my point is, maybe after you get a good mix cookin' the distortion won't seem to noticeable.