Plan your recording sessions

Decide you, what is the purpose of the studio session, and ensure that all Members of the group are in agreement on this point. Are you at home for personal pleasure, or perhaps you want to receive a CD-ROM Gigs, or maybe do you want a demonstration of the test, a disk with that? To find out what your goals are to help you make the right choices at the meeting.

Like many songs that I have to Record? — Try to decide, before the meeting starts like this can be fatal Studio. If you are unsure, as many songs, to get in touch and tell us about you. We have, on thousands of meetings, ie we have a good idea of what is achievable.

The quality or quantity, the quality is, I feel better and better than quantity. Most localities, the management of businesses, publishers and record companies is likely that listening to the 1 Minutes to every song and not for the past 4 Song, judging on the songwriting, production at the level music and the quality of the shot.

Equipment - turn on time with all the equipment and checks completed. We are more and more time on the spot, so that the clock is ticking. Take everything that is with you, you probably need. Spare Strings, plectrums, batteries, runways, etc., you can guarantee that the item you forget one thing you need. Test your equipment every day before.Instrumentation, notes and cards Lyric - Please try again, and all opinions, lyric sheets, and wrote to all the meetings, as appropriate. Do you think about the different parts, such as vocal backing vocals and harmony, prior to the meetings. Similarly, think of a whole chain of agreements or percussion that might be necessary.

Arrangements-Rehearse your songs carefully and make sure all Members of the group knows all their part (s) for each song.

Less is more your registration is not the time to try and clean your Solidays blistering. A mission rather easy to take effective and not as someone who is hitting the self-indulgent routines. Remember, the song is the most important, it is not a party.

Click on the track, I strongly recommend that you play on a click track, because it is not just the speed, including the song, but, which represents more than synchronization process more straight forward. It also traces treatment simpler and more precise. We can not, for the sake of example, an expression of the low during the first stanza and copy it in the last 2nd Dispatcher, if the song accelerates Thus, the click gives you greater flexibility in production , and allows things faster.

How long is a record? — It is a bit like asking how long is a string of string instruments. If you are organized, well-prepared and streamlined procedures of the shot is, of course, the evidence, much faster. Même si vous travaillez avec des musiciens de session est, en règle générale, ce pour gagner du temps, car ils sont employés pour faire le travail dans un environnement de studio tous les jours et est plutôt par leur race. Either way Preparation is the key, and approximately 70% of your session should be the integration of the phase.

Mix - After all registration is completed, the next step is the mixture. The mixer is where we EQ (EQ), and the dynamic effects (eg, compressors, Expander, Noise Gates), for each track, and make sure the right track in volume compared to all the other tracks. I also decide where each should be stereo audio track of the balance in the determination of the obligation to freeze and some aspects of training.

How long is amalgam? — Similarly, during the shooting as it may vary. It depends. Draw treatment, it is, like many others, regardless of whether you want to change the sound of a track with other effects, if you have a very clear idea of how the finished, the soundtrack. In other words, devote more time to mix, the greater the likelihood They come with something that you really satisfied. The orientation is very serious, I would suggest, planning to spend 20% of your time on the session as mixers. This is an estimate and may be more or less.

When will the Mix? — I strongly recommend you not to have been directly after the end of registration mix, as you grow tired. Au moins une semaine entre la prise de vue et à la session finale de mélange vous donne la possibilité de revenir avec des oreilles fraîches et des idées sur les chansons que vous avez enregistrées.

Mastering - This is the process in which we prepare and that you register in a format that can be duplicated on a CD. While mastering, mixing stereo final which will be processed to include the ups and downs, to improve the overall performance and more consistent sound in different formats and reading. I use itself a combination of PC-based audio editing and mastering applications to make them. And yes, mastering and CD-step is probably still at least an hour. This is another factor to the case, if you know how long you need.

Finally - Despite everything I said, I always say to my customers who come into my studio in London, in order to prepare to have fun and enjoy the whole experience of the studio.