Introduction to recording

An introduction to working methods in the recording studio.

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In the studio, the recording process will vary according to the style of your music.

As I mentioned when I covered pre-production, a guitar band may prepare in a rehearsal studio, or even on the road, but they will come into the studio with nothing actually recorded.

A dance act on the other hand will probably have a significant amount of pre-programmed material which only needs to be dumped from the MIDI gear onto tape.

Tape, by the way, is still the preferred storage medium for most producers, but hard disk multitracks such as the Otari Radar are rapidly gaining in popularity.

Those who rely solely on their sequenced MIDI systems right the way through to the mix are very much the exception.

For the purpose of this section, I'll talk about recording a band with a drum kit, guitars and keyboards, but just about everything I shall say can be applied to other styles of music too.

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