Active Rock Metal Recording Session Day 2 of 2 with Quor and Chris Baseford

Active Rock Metal Recording Session Day 2 of 2 with Quor & Chris Baseford — Pro Studio Live — Free download


In this engaging and informative episode, Chris Baseford brings us through day 2 of tracking with band QUOR. You’ll watch and learn how Chris tracks, comps, and edits guitars, bass, and vocals. Chris also gives us advice throughout on topics such as tuning philosophy, the importance of paying attention what type of pick is used, and amp placement. He teaches us how and when he uses playlists, what he recommends while setting up for tracking these instruments, and some advice on microphone selection. Throughout the tracking session, we diverge into discussions and experiments that will help the viewer improve their tracking, comping, and editing skills. For example, Chris even guides our audience through a blind vocal microphone shootout! This episode is great for anyone that’s interested in learning a bit more about the production and tracking process, so check it out!

In this episode:

– How and why Chris prefers to track his doubles

– The importance of tuning, and some philosophy on tuning, such as tuning the attack vs the sustain

– Why and how Chris uses stereo tracks: his explanation of a less common tracking technique that he describes as creating a “multi-mono” track, and the plugin that he uses to do this

– Some considerations to keep in mind while reading PT meters

– Chris’ panning while tracking philosophy

– Advice for comping and editing doubles

– Loop recording: what Chris thinks of it, and how he uses it

– Psychology of working with a musician, and tips for getting the best performance out of them

– Amp placement

– How and when Chris uses multiple doubles

– How the pick influences the guitar sound, and a tip for quickly analyzing the sound of a pick

– DI bass tracking

– Advice and considerations when using a tuner

– How Chris sculpts the bass sound during the tracking process: fingers vs pick with bass, and watch him tweak the bass sound

– Latency concerns while tracking

– Bass editing

– Vocal tracking

– Philosophy on shooting out gear to decide what to use: how and why

– Chris’ vocal mic choices: his philosophy behind picking each mic, some details about each one

– What engineers should consider setting up for a vocalist: pop filter philosophy, using modifier buttons on your mics, other things to set up

– See how the audience reacted to our blind mic shootout – listen to it yourself and decide!

– The importance of listening in the track

– How and when Chris adds to the vocal signal chain: EQ and compression

– Chris’ vocal editing process: how he uses playlists, comps, creates doubles, etc

– Chris’ attitude about using tuning: how he likes to do it

– How to edit drums, and work with drums that weren’t recorded to a click

– An interesting trick that Chris uses to avoid bleed from the click track

– Chris’ advice about using delays

– A discussion of mid side technique: when he uses it for vocals

– SPL and mic types philosophy


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