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Originally Posted by Paul David Why would you need to do 25 vocal takes?
If I do any more than 4 or 5 with a singer and they still haven't shown me the magic then I realize that we need to either punch our way to success (yuk) or let the singer go home.
25 is just toooooo much editing. No matter how many man hours you throw at it it will never sound like 1 good take.
P.S. Sometime I take 3 strong takes, put my favorite parts on a comp track, then have the singer fill in the blanks if there are any. |
Well I'm not necessarily saying that there are 25 takes of every part, but sometimes there are like 25 playlists even though most of the song will only have 5 takes (which is normal) and maybe another part may have had more because he wanted to nail it, or did a bunch of takes of it in different ways so they could decide later. I don't know what I would do if I had to go through 25 takes for every line...jeeezus, that would be a nightmare
Anyway, the whole point of me wanting to scroll through the playlists fast is that sometimes, because I was in a rush or wasn't thinking or something, I'm looking for a part that I recorded on a random playlist in a list of 20+ playlists. You know, stuff like that. If the singer's like, wait, where's that harmony, and I forgot about it, and I have to search through all the vocal tracks and backup tracks and then click and drag through the menus of all of their playlists, sometimes it can take FOREVER. And I know what everyone's going to say and it is true in some cases, I need to organize better. But you know how it gets in a high pressure, speedy situation, sometimes you lose track of things. That's all I'm sayin!
<--me in high pressure situation
anyway thanks for the tips so far guys, I appreciate it.