16  Recording and Tracking: Capturing and Shaping the Performance

It is time to record. Some final decisions on approach, then the recording begins. We will explore the capturing and shaping of the performance, in real time and out of time.

Here we will explore approaches to recording and tracking, and shifting our learned listening skills to the live experience and to interacting with others. Recordings will be made, some all at once and some in pieces and layers. And after the sessions, more tasks to prepare for mixing. These and more are covered in this chapter, making final preparations for the mix.

Approaching the Recording: Tracking and Recording Sessions

Every project will be unique in the ways and formats its sounds are recorded. The ...

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