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Member Since: Jul 11, 2004

Hi all, I have a 16 track recorder and I am currently recording drums with 4 mics, recording guitar with 2 mics, bass with one, and vocals with one. Now in all that is 8 tracks. When I mixdown is it better to bounce the two guitar tracks together to one track and the 4 drum tracks to one track? or is there no point in bouncing?, should I just eq , pan and level everything until it sounds right and perform mixdown with out bouncing anything?

Thanks in advance

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Since: Jan 18, 2003

Dec 19, 2004 11:57 pm

you have 8 empty tracks? bouncing strips your control of the individual instruments that you bounce. i would argue against it in almost all cases. the only reason to do it is lack of free tracks.

Phatso
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Since: Mar 31, 2003

Dec 20, 2004 02:07 am

Fortymile is absolutely correct. If you have eight free tracks, bouncing would be a tremendous waste. Bouncing is usually only required when you fill up all your tracks and still need to record more instruments. And even then, I'd probably transfer all the audio to my PC for mixing, and then record the other instruments. Bouncing is basically mixing an unfinished song in order to free up tracks to finish the song. However, once you have the rest of the instruments recorded, the "mix" you bounced may not give the extra instruments room to fit.

Member
Since: Jul 11, 2004

Dec 20, 2004 09:20 am

The thing I forgot to mention is I only use the effects on the recorder, and they can only send 2 effects at a time, so if I wanted to use reverb and delay on the vocal track I can send it after (which I prefer to do so I can get the right sound) or mess with it and record it before, which takes too much time and is a gamble. I also mixdown o nthe recorder itself and do no mixing or fixing up on the computer.

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Since: Dec 23, 2003

Dec 20, 2004 12:50 pm

If you have 8 free tracks left why don't you record some of the effects you want onto free tracks. You could use avalible tracks and still leave two to mix onto.

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