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Important things before tracking:
-Use brand new strings on guitars and bass everytime! Sometimes you have to use two or more set on the bass when you record a whole album. When you hear the sound is less bright you have to change it.
-Use the best available instruments. If necessary borrow or rent it.
-Do not use cheap guitar cable.
-Always chek out the settings of the guitar and the bass (octave, neck, etc.)! If you do not have enough experience in it take it to a professional.
-Use professional high-quality condenser microphone for the vocals.
-Do not record vocal in a bad sounding room. If necessary use soundproofing materials
For the best result:
-Send me each tracks fully dry (no eq, no comp, no delay, no reverb etc.)
-For me the best are the fully dry DI guitar signals, and bass (no distortion, no eq, no comp, no delay, no reverb, etc. except wah pedal). In this case I can make any kind of guitar sound with professional reamping, but If you send me bad sounding distortion guitar tracks, I cannot make a great tone from it.
-I prefer programmed or electric drums so I can guarantee a professional drum sound from a midi. I cannot do this with real drums if the recording conditions were not perfect, like the drummer, the quality of the drums, the quality of the recording equipments or the acoustics of the studio.
-Send the keyboard tracks in wav and midi as well if it is possible.
-Send me a premix or demo version of the songs if you have it.
Important technical things:
-Every track must be in 24bit. I prefer 44,1khz, but if you recorded in higher (48khz, 96khz etc.), do not convert to lower.
-Export stereo tracks in stereo, mono tracks in mono.
-I prefer the „wav” format, but you can send the tracks in „aiff” as well. Never send the tracks in mp3! Mp3 is a bad compressed format, not professional.
-Beware of signal clipping while recording! Set the preamp correctly without clipping. The ideal recording peak level is around -10db. Use same preamp or DI gain level with same instrument during the whole tracking period. It doesn’t matter if some parts have lower volume than the others, because it is important to keep the natural way of playing and its dynamics.
-Never normalize tracks! It is important because of the previuos point.
-Export every track from the first measure/bar of the project, even if it starts from the middle of the song.