This weekend has been very busy. I knocked out the drum tracks in a day and a half. Seven songs. We recorded three to five takes of each song and then comped them together. Comping is a simple yet powerful editing process where we take the best take and label it as "main" then any mistakes are replaced by that section from a different take. Sometimes it was not a matter of replacing a mistake, but just a section that I liked better from a different take. Maybe it was more solid, or I did something different that I liked better. There was lots of flexibility to make the "main" take just the way I wanted it. Since I played every take very consistently over all, it was an easy process to comp a few sections here or there and make it seemless. The next step, which we started last night and will finish tonight, is to grid edit the drums. This process is tedious, but it allows us to make sure all the main kick, snare, and tom hits are on the grid all the time. Also part of grid editing is to isolate the tom tracks and remove any sections that the toms are not being played to cut out bleed. This cleans up the tom tracks and makes them very clean and crispy.
I am very happy with the drum sounds. Sean Shannon from Redroom Audio has done an amazing job at making the drum tracks sound awesome. Check him out at www.redroomaudio.com.
Within the next week or so I will have pictures up and possibly a performance video from tracking.
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