Full song
The full recording process for full song, split into sections.
About the full song
This is where everything that doesn’t belong to one particular instrument lives: organizing the session, the overall balance, space, automation and mastering. The settings for each instrument are in its own section of the stage.
Sections
- ⚡Quick guide: record the songThe recording session from start to finish: decisions up front, format, instrument order, levels, monitoring and editing.
- 11. The session and the recording orderHow to set up the song before recording: tempo, structure, template, what order to record each instrument in and how not to lose work.
- 22. Gain staging: levels from start to finishWhat gain staging is, why you don't need to record hot at 24 bits, how tracks add up and where the level gets set at each stage.
- 33. Monitoring and latencyWhat latency is, how it's calculated from the buffer, when direct monitoring is worth it and how to avoid dropouts when recording with amp sims.
- 44. Comping and editingBuilding the best version from several takes, editing timing without sounding like a machine, and when to stop editing and move on to the mix.