Old 11-07-2006, 05:54 PM   #1
tommy
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Join Date: May 2006
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Default Recording Live to Daw: tips Needed

Hello Reapsters,

Long time lurker, first time writer.
So, lets get to the hard stuff.

Whenever I see pictures of naked women,
I get these, sort of, "funny feelings", but I
am not sure what that means ...

Oops ...Sorry ... wrong forum.

Ah, I remember now ...

A few of years ago, we submitted a song to one of
those national contests and won a "mention".

I think it was the "Mention Jello to a Friend" award, anyway.

We felt the song was a "hit*" and obviously felt disappointed.
The judges, I'm sure, were a bunch of pinko-commie, bull-dyke,
retards, but I'm not into judging others, so we would like to
redo the song properly.

Since then, I have built up a nice DAW.

The facts. The songwriter is VERY talanted. He can sing and
play guitar with the best of them ... but not at the same time.
The song is a complex latin/rock sound. Sort of a Carlos meets Tito thing.

So, here is me thinking. The guitar part, (rythem), must be recorded first.
That sets the tempo and feel that the songwriter wants.
Then, (maybe), the lead vocal. From there, I can build the song. After the basic
foundation is created, I can add the congas, horns, cocanut shells on gravel, whatever.

SO here is, (my god finally), question 1;

The songwriter will be fed a click, and his guitar, to his headset.
The click and his guitar will be streamed to the DAW via seperate channels.
Click via SPFID, Guitar via balanced line. Guitar digitized at DAW.

Does that make sense? (You in the back! Thats the question part.)

Question number 2;

At this point, should I build up the song to near completion for the
songwriter to sing to OR record the lead vocal, against just the solo rythem guitar?

This question, to me, has two thoughts. The singer becoming intimate with
a solo quitar, or inspired by singing to a full band. FYI this isn't a
Mel Bays strumming rythem guitar deal, we are taking about obsecene street
jesture type chords that bring tears to the arthritis crowd, type chords.
(Now ya know why Carlos Santana grimices when he plays).

Question C;

Wheather the songwriter sings to a near finished song or just his solo rythem
quitar, what about timing?

AT this point the singer must sing to something that is coming from the DAW.
I can't help but think that by the time the music gets out of the DAW, travels
out the lines to the singers headset, he sings and the sounds travel back down another
set of lines ... that he will be out of sync with the tracks on the DAW!

I understand that about up to 10ms latencey can not be precieved, but with this
arrangement, seems that we would have an "in sync" problem. Is that correct?
Is that compensated for by adding a latency compensation plugin to the previously
recorded tracks, then streaming new and old-compensated, to fresh tracks?

Oh, the DAW is a decicated PC, no crap on it except music stuff. Running E-MU 1212 card.
Okay, ok, it does have some extra fans and blue lights, but thats it!
And yes it is overclocked, ton o'memory, dedicated IRQ's, dual 21" monitors...
and it's all black, so there! And NO, I am no growing breast'is'ziz because of
all that radiation. Though, it may affect my writing, but I'm not into judging others,
I mean me, I mean others ... whatever.


ANY help would be appreciated. I hope that if we win this time, I will
be able to put a stop to RAP, once and for all, during this lifetime.
Thank you for your vote, I mean your help.

Ok. Pencils down, time is up. Please forward your responses.

tommy


PS I left out question number 4 or was that D? Anyway,
I still don't get why chicks keep bring up this EDD stuff.
I hated that Mister EDD show, like, really goofy, but I guess most
chicks are really into those old sit-coms. A horse is a horse,
of course ... geez, why I otta ...

* HIT: Selling more copies of your song than you have relatives AND
being mentioned on Casey Kasum's top 1,000 countdown.
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