
About Bouncing Tracks
If you like to build up a lot of layers in your record- ing, a
Double Bussing
One thing that can make bouncing easier is having the flexibility to send any channel or mix of channels to any recorder track. Using direct outputs requires patching or moving cables, but as long as you don’t need to record on more than four tracks at a time, you can make the four SUB outputs do double duty by splitting each one out to two recorder tracks.
In the Double Bussing Hookup Diagram, each of the four SUB OUTs feed a pair of tracks. SUB 1 goes to Tracks 1 and 5, SUB 2 goes to Tracks 2 and 6, etc. The way to do this is to buy or build
recording software allows you to “double bus” right at the recorder’s input. The
Alesis ADAT® and Mackie SDR24/96 are examples. On these recorders, you need only connect the SUB OUTs to recorder inputs
Recording The One-Person Band
Here’s an example of how you’d record using a
APPLICATIONS: CHAPTER 2
What we’ll do is record the rhythm section, then bounce that to two tracks, and record lead parts over the original rhythm tracks. Here’s how this works.
Pass 1
We’re still using Channels
Channel | Source | Assign | Pan | Track |
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7 | Drum L | L | 1 | |
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8 | Drum R | R | 2 | |
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3 | Guitar | L | 3 | |
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4 | Bass | R | 4 | |
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Put tracks 1, 2 and 3 into Record, start the drum machine, and record the rhythm guitar along with the drums. Adjust the faders on Channels
Oh, and don’t forget to program a
times until you’re happy with the rhythm
guitar recording. Once you have it down, don’t forget to take Tracks 1, 2, and 3 out of Record
Pass 2
Once the guitar part’s solid, rewind, put Track 4 into Record, and play the bass while listening to the guitar and drums. Since the bass channel is assigned to recorder track 4, it’ll show up for monitoring on Channel 12. Adjust the Channel
Pass 3
This is a good time to add a keyboard part to the rhythm section before buttoning it up. Let’s make it a mono track since we don’t want it to clutter up the mix.
Hey! We’ve just made a production deci-sion and we’ve just started tracking! This is one of the things you’ll need to do when
bouncing. Might as well get used to it. There’s no reason why you couldn’t record the background keys
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