funny things said in today's session

[Berolzheimer]

Originally Posted by knerd

I had a client today that insists on recording his guitar before he records drums. I tried to talk him out of it... no dice.. so, what I did was load up digidesign CLICK, find the tempo he likes, then I pull up a kick, snare, hat, crash sample and create him a glorified click track... it was the least I could do..

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I have a client liek that too, but with him it's all about the feel- it's got to be at the tempo that feels right when he's playing his acoustic- it never worked to play him a click & say, "does that feel right? How about this?" So what we do is I let him play the song a few times through by himself, usually singing and playing at the same time, have him listen back & decide which section of which take has the best feel, then I make a click to match that, & we start tracking for real. Works great.

[MACHINE]

That tempo thing was golden hahahahaha

[funkynuts]

Originally Posted by Berolzheimer

I have a client liek that too, but with him it's all about the feel- it's got to be at the tempo that feels right when he's playing his acoustic- it never worked to play him a click & say, "does that feel right? How about this?" So what we do is I let him play the song a few times through by himself, usually singing and playing at the same time, have him listen back & decide which section of which take has the best feel, then I make a click to match that, & we start tracking for real. Works great.

Same here

[Jose Mrochek]

Originally Posted by MACHINE

That tempo thing was golden hahahahaha

yes!

[Durv]

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hahaha
Durv

[moonpi]

Originally Posted by knerd

I had a client today that insists on recording his guitar before he records drums.

It doesn't make sense most all the time, I'll agree. However, Sly Stone did this A LOT (not to mention starting in New York with a guitar line, flying to San Fran to get a bass he left at his Mom's house, and then going to LA to put that down, then going back to San Fran to do vocals, and then maybe go to Chicago to finally get around to those drums) and his music is pretty groovin'.