Re: how can 32 tracks not be enough?

Well, although I agree that 24 or 32 tracks are not always needed, here's a typical track count from my 24 track sessions. You can see that it could easily expand to 32 tracks for more options and instrumentation. 1. Kick Drum 2. Snare Drum 3. Hi Hat 4. Tom 1 5. Tom 2 6. Tom 3 7. Drum Overhead L 8. Drum Overhead R 9. Bass - Direct 10. Bass - Mic'd Cab 11. Elctrc Gtr 1 12. Elctrc Gtr 2 13. Elctrc Gtr 3 14. Elctrc Gtr 4 15. Acoustic Gtr 16. Keyboards 1 17. Keyboards 2 18. Lead Vocals 1 19. Lead Vocals 2 20. Lead Vocals 3 21. Backing Vocals 1 22. Backing Vocals 2 23. Backing Vocals 3 24. Click Track

i only use 6 or 7 tracks per song, but some people record strings,horns,multiple vocal tracks,ect.... one time i was talking to a guy at samash who records on all 32 tracks then does a mixdown then records on them again and mixdows again and mixes the 2 mixdowns together.

Becouse no one does mono anymore. You get 16 stero tracks. Even if you are playing engineer and not composer It goes something like this: Guitar 1 - 1 (i.e. 2 mono) tracks Guitar 2 2 Dry Bass 1 (the exception) Bass 2 Drums 9 - 12 (mono) vocals 3 or so backing vocals 2 keyboard 2 Sound module 1 2 SM 2 2 SM 3 2 Now you are maxed out.

just recorded my band live on July 5th. 1. Trumpet 2. Guitar close mike 3. Guitar a bit distant mikw 4. Acoustic Bass mike 5. Acoustic Bass pickup 6. Kick 7-8. Overhead L-R It sounds great.

how can you do a stero guitar? why would you. Only thing i could see you doing stero is Drums. which is what i do, and sounds really cooL! I heard people micing a amp with 2 one close for quick response and 1 farther back. But still? why? Its all coming from 1 place

How many tracks is enough?How many tracks is too little? How long,ToadiesXJ,is a piece of string?

toadies it comes down to this: the more mics you are using on something, the more tweaking you can do to it. If you have one mic on a drum set, obvisouly you cant make the snare louder, without bringing everything else up with it. If you have 3 mics on a guitar cab, (well, 2 mics, and then direct line-3 tracks), then you can maybe put eq on one of them, reverb on one, delay on the direct, you can get a bunch more different sounds than you could if you had one mic and put these effects on that one track.. yeh, in reality you only need like 6 tracks maybe. two guitars, maybe two vox, bass, and a couple for a drum kit, but the more the marryer, cause when it comes to adding effects, and mixing, and eventually mastering, the more you have, the more you can tweak.

toadies it comes down to this: the more mics you are using on something, the more tweaking you can do to it. If you have one mic on a drum set, obvisouly you cant make the snare louder, without bringing everything else up with it. If you have 3 mics on a guitar cab, (well, 2 mics, and then direct line-3 tracks), then you can maybe put eq on one of them, reverb on one, delay on the direct, you can get a bunch more different sounds than you could if you had one mic and put these effects on that one track.. yeh, in reality you only need like 6 tracks maybe. two guitars, maybe two vox, bass, and a couple for a drum kit, but the more the marryer, cause when it comes to adding effects, and mixing, and eventually mastering, the more you have, the more you can tweak. I was working on a song, and decided to sway from my norm and start putting some different keyboard effects in there, just randon background noises type things. before I knew it, my track limit was reached..