Cutting Some Tracks at Another Studio
I might record some tracks (a vocalist or a choir or a string section) at a large commercial facility. The other tracks and the final mix will come from my project studio. Here is how I think would be best to approach this, but if you have done it a different or better way, please let me know.
Example using a choir:
1. Mix the existing track to a wav file. Have a known and cleanly defined starting point.
2. Ask the studio to load the wav file and record the choir in stereo to a separate stereo track (or tracks if you want to divide the choir into sections.)
3. Ask the studio for the additional tracks (new material) in wav format. Ensure that these tracks start at exactly the same time as the reference track. For example, if the choir starts singing 1 minute and 10 seconds after the reference track starts, there will me 1:10 of silence on the wav files the studio delivers.
4. I might put an audio spike (e.g., click) in my Sonar file and on the first of the reference track, and ask the engineer to do the same on the new content.
5. Back in my studio, I will load the new tracks into Sonar and align their starting points with the start of the track.
Thoughts?
Konrad
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