When you ultimately do pick the perfect studio, one that you feel confident at, there’s a certain routine that has got to be followed to get the best performance and the best quality recording for your bucks.

Tune Your Instruments. This also includes your drums and any tunable percussion instruments you could have. There is absolutely nothing worse in the world than to have a superbly written song with an ideal rendition be ruined because someone failed to take an extra two mins to test their tuning. Tuning takes 1 or 2 minutes ; a recording lasts for keeps.

Be well practiced. You’ll be surprised how many bands suffer when they get the recording bill.  The real reason for this is because they confuse rehearsal time with studio time. Rehearse at home, in the garage, at your uncle’s house ; anywhere but at the recording session. When you get to the studio, you must know your tunes perfectly and be ready for the red signal.

Practice with a metronome. A large amount of drummers unable to play with a metronome. Confirm yours can. A click track is important in getting a good solid beat that the remainder of the band can groove to, and to time loops and delay speed.

Be Early. Many studios start charging the customers at the exact time agreed to in the contract.  Simply because you make a decision to show up late, doesn’t mean that the studio should give up that time for nothing. Be early and be ready to go. Not only that it’s disrespectful for your band mates.

Get the sound right. Never, ever attempt to fix it in the mix. It doesn’t work like that. Take an additional few mins to tweak the sound before laying it down.  tweak that knob, tune that string, have another drink of water. Remember again, tweaking may take an additional minute, but the recording will last for all time.

Know when to give up. Recording regularly leads to reducing returns. Spending twenty hours} straight at the recording session isn’t about to make your song twice as good as spending ten hours. This rule also is applicable to mixing. If you’re tired, call the session and come back the following day fresh and prepared.

Record alone. Don’t bring your friends, family moms and pops or any one else into the studio. As fun as it could be, you are there to do a job and record the best music possible. If you are a millionaire, then by every means, have a celebration at the studio, but do not count on getting much done.

Do comparisons. After letting the engineer do the first coarse mix alone (which he should ) do an A / B comparison of your mix to a couple of your favorite CDs. Remember that the professional CDs you are listening to have just been mastered. But it’s a good way to compare equalization and other elements.

Bring backups. Always bring spare strings, drum heads, bass strings, water bottles, throat lozenges, etc to a recording session. You may always need the one thing you forgot to bring, so carry it all and leave them at the studio till your recordings are done.

Have a good time! This is the most important reason of all. Creating and recording music isn’t rocket science. Although there’s a science concerned, you should let the studio professional stress about that. If you’re not having fun, then you’re in the wrong business! http://www.micsandmoreonline.com

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