Record your track in the usual fashion.(Needless to say, it took a talented engineer to do this well.) However, you can use the supernatural powers of your DAW to attack the problem in a much more controllable way when you’re mixing. The engineer would get to know the song, and, as the singer or player performed a part, the engineer would manually move the microphone’s volume fader to manage the overly loud dynamic peaks. Recording engineers used to “ride” the faders to control the level. When there are only a few large peaks in a track, it’s hard to set a compressor to catch them without also affecting the rest of the track. There always seem to be a few spots in an otherwise perfect take where a note, chord, or strum pops out. With the verses and choruses on separate tracks, you can optimize the sound for each section, giving you more control and creating a more balanced result. Set the volume and plug-ins as desired to make each track or part sound its best.If necessary, add very short fade-ins and fade-outs to each section to prevent clicks and pops at the edit points. (Be careful not to shift them in time when you move them to the new track.) Create a new track and move the chorus parts down to the new track.Cut the guitar track apart at each verse and chorus section.You could go through and automate your plug-ins so the sound of the track changes at the appropriate time. They may be far too different for the same EQ and compression settings to work well in the context of the song. If you recorded the main acoustic guitar part for your song with two very different styles-for example, soft arpeggio picking during the verses and hard, heavy strumming during the choruses-you may find it difficult to get the two sections to work when you’re mixing. A very short cross-fade (in which one audio region quickly fades out while another fades in) can be applied if you hear a click on either side of where the replacement note or section was inserted into the track.Be careful to record the replacement track with the same tone and volume as the original.Make sure the timing of the replacement is correct so the rhythm of the part remains smooth.For example, if a note is ringing underneath the bad note you want to fix, you may want to copy over the entire section containing the ringing note for the most natural sound. It may sound more natural to copy and replace a few notes or a short section of music than to copy and paste just one note in a passage.Now, simply copy and paste a good note from the new track into the master track to fix the note you flubbed. Do you try another complete take or punch in to fix the mistake? Neither! Record a brief section on another track that duplicates the area where you made the mistake. There’s nothing worse than playing a beautiful take and then flubbing a note or two.
#Moving a song out of realguitar to daw track pro#
Recording a great-sounding acoustic guitar track used to be a real challenge, but with today’s highly affordable hardware and software, you can have the power of a pro studio right in your computer on your desk.
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