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Originally Posted by AlexLakis I like my tracks arranged in the order in which they appear in the song, that way, when something comes in, I know I can just look to the next line for the culprit. |
That's an interesting idea, but you might send an engineer fishing for tracks a bit. Most engineers like to see things grouped with like instruments, i.e. all the drums together, all guitars together, vocals etc. My biggest pet peeve is unorganized sessions. Lead vocals at the top with vocal doubles somewhere in the middle of the session and backgrounds spread around and in between drums. Guitars just sprinkled throughout. I layout my session the way I used to layout analog tape so it would show up how I wanted it on a console. For instance:
tracks 1-10 drums
11-12 percusssion
13 bass
14-18 guitars
19-20 keys
21-23 backgrounds
24 lead vocal
I recently mixed a song for someone that had 96 tracks and was completely unorganized, drums and vocals all over the place. It just takes longer to get the thing under control.