To Click Track Or Not To Click Track (1 Viewer)

[bedbugs]

I sometimes add the click afterwards...

(pauses for screaming)

Seriously though, if someone gives me a (for example) guitar and vocal recording and asks me to arrange orchestration or whatever around it, you need that grid.

In Cubase (and I'm sure most other sequencers), you can mark the start of each bar manually, thus giving you a grid. It's laborious, and might take an hour, but it really makes life a whole lot easier. Plus it's fun to see what a real "groove" looks like in bpm. Those numbers fly all over the shop!!

So yep, sometimes, record the audio and add the grid afterwards. Sometimes it's better. Sometimes I prefer the recording is done to a click.

Regards

Supernintendo Chalmers.

 

[dudley]

depends totally on the song and what you're going for.

for home demos, always use the click, just makes it so much easier to mess around with, "ooh, i think i'll nab the bass from the last verse and throw it there", blah.

for proper recording, if you know a song is going to have a ton of parts and fiddly mixing, then it's pretty vital, can save much hassle and heartache afterwards.

some songs benefit from loose timing and speeding up/slowing down, really depends what you're going for

i've never really experienced something sounding lifeless as a result of using a click though.