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2012/07/30 08:43:11 (permalink)

Recording Vox on road and bringing back to studio to mix...

Hi,
 
I have a MIDI file I'm working on in Sonar 8.5 Producer. I needed to record backing vocals on the road at someones house, so, I did it the below way, and want to know if I chose a backward, "wrong" way, or is it ok? Something tells me that there may be a better way, but I haven't thought of it.
 
I mixed the track in my studio computer down to an MP3 file. I then loaded that MP3 file into a new Sonar project in the laptop I use for road recording.
 
I recorded 3 or 4 takes of the backup singer, all on the same track but with set to have layers, to the laptop.
 
At this point, I realized that I couldn't just export that track and bring it into the studio computer because I had multiple takes in layers and figured I'd get a  Wave file of all the takes sounding. So, I saved the project as a Bundle, opened that Bundle in the studio computer and then comped together the different takes of vocals until I had one single track of vocals. Only "then" did I export it as a Wave to bring into the studio computers original track to line it up visually and by listening.
 
Is this ok or is there a better way.
 
Thanks.

  
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    daveny5
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    Re:Recording Vox on road and bringing back to studio to mix... 2012/07/30 09:19:23 (permalink)
    Sounds good to me. 

    If you only wanted one of the layers, you could have muted the others. The layers can be muted individually. 

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    Re:Recording Vox on road and bringing back to studio to mix... 2012/07/30 11:08:55 (permalink)
    There is a much easier way. I copy the original studio project file , which would be in a folder containing the CWP and audio folder, to the laptop via an external drive.Go Record with the laptop and copy the folder back to the studio computer when finished. I rename and date the folders as I proceed. I do a lot of this without hassle. It will also gives you full back ups in both computers and the external drive. The other benefit is you have control over the mix while tracking on the other computer. You can freeze synths if your laptop is gutless. Super fast, super easy, super safe.
    post edited by Cactus Music - 2012/07/30 11:11:36

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    Re:Recording Vox on road and bringing back to studio to mix... 2012/07/30 11:22:42 (permalink)
    Thanks Daveny5.
     
    I'm trying to keep two layers of backing vocals to use on separate right and left tracks back in the studio computer, so it was getting tricky muting some of the layers without actually moving layer segments up and down the layer rows so that when I finally am ready to export one of the layers for use as a new, separate vocal track, it would have the right "peices". Thanks again.

      
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    Re:Recording Vox on road and bringing back to studio to mix... 2012/07/30 11:25:43 (permalink)
    Thanks Cactus Music.
     
    I guess I didn't think of that because of I was worried about making sure the laptop had all the same samples stored and could be triggered correctly.
     
    I forgot that I could "freeze" tracks, giving me the audio for a "gutless" laptop. I'm from the old school way of using hardware synths and sometimes I forget that I have these features available. Thanks.

      
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