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Edited on Mon Jul-19-04 07:10 PM by Zorra
on studio albums. Say you are a guitar player, and you have written a guitar solo for a tune. The advantage of dubbing is that you can record that solo as many times as you want until you (and sometimes the producer if s/he has too much control) feel that you got it right, and then use that track in the mix. The same is true for each individual musicians' part in the mix of a tune. It is often more convenient for the rest of a band to allow individual musicians to lay their tracks individually, because they don't have to be there when another band member is laying a track, which can sometimes take a lot of time.
It is unusual for a band to record all the tracks on a tune together at one time unless they are strapped for cash to pay for studio time, and the finished product is usually not all that great unless a band is exceptionally tight and very lucky. In most cases, the drummer will lay down the first track with a click track playing in headphones so that the meter of the drum part is on, and when s/he gets it right, the track becomes the basis for the mix. Then, usually, the bass player lays down a track, and when that track is acceptable it also becomes part of the mix, and this forms the basis of the rhythm that the rest of the band will follow when recording their parts, etc.
If a band gets along really well with each other, sometimes it is a lot of fun to have the whole band together in the studio, and sometimes certain musicians in a band have more artistic control, especially if they are the songwriter. If certain members of a band don't get along that well, it can be a huge pain in the a$$ to always have the whole band together in the studio.
Also, studio time costs big bucks and things usually need to be done as efficiently as possible.
There are a lot of different factors that go into making a good record, and it's hard to say what the best way to go about it is for every band, but I preferred the freedom of laying tracks individually most of the time. But sometimes having a band together in the studio is a blast.
It is rare that every member of a band is satisfied with their individual performance when playing a tune. Usually one or more band members feels that they could have done it better and would like to try again. Then this blows it for the person who laid the best track of their life. Of course, that individual track could be saved and edited into the final mix, but then, what's the point of playing live together if you are going to dub anyway?
And some days you got it, and some days you don't.
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