Originally Posted By: KarelD
Hi Everybody,
I apologise if this topic is in some thread, "Search Forums" seems to give the same 200 results regardless of the search phrase. Anyway, what have you found to be the best way to get voice to your BAIB masterpiece? I have heard some great sounds here and I am wondering if those have been recorded in music studios?
My present workflow is to get the back track the closest to what I want with BAIB, then play back the music through headphones and record my voice on a Zoom H2 recorder housed in a small self made portable sound booth.
Finally I use Audacity to mix the track and the Audio.
Any tips, tricks, discussions please.
Karel.

Karel,

Sounds like a fine workflow to me! My only suggestion might be to get a DAW as Audacity appears to be more of an audio editor and may be limiting you. I use and highly recommend Reaper! It is modern, full-featured, inexpensive and has an unlimited trial to get you started.

For workflow I do almost exactly the same thing because I am never going to use BIAB or RB for my mixing...I just use them to generate instrument tracks. So my workflow is like this,

- write song on guitar or banjo
- type chords into BIAB
- try various combinations of RealTracks until I find something I like to add to my song (sometimes just a drum track...sometimes a full backing track)
- export the BIAB tracks as individual WAVs
- copy the individual instrument WAVs into my song folder for use in my DAW
- copy the composite WAV containing all tracks into my Zoom H4n
- record my vocal tracks, harmony tracks, other instrument tracks, on my H4n while listening to the composite WAV on headphones (and I too have a portable, home-made sound "booth"!!)
- copy my recorded tracks to my song folder
- open my DAW and bring in all BIAB tracks and all recorded tracks and mix it up

In my situation, BIAB/RB are not my primary music production tools. They are important if I need a track from them but sometimes I do not so it would make no sense to base my workflow on them when I much prefer my DAW.

And I certainly understand I could record directly into my DAW but for me that raises new issues I don't need/want to deal with yet. Issues like getting an interface for the computer, dealing with latency issues, singing/performing in an area that is set up more for sit-down computing, etc.

And, yes, I could certainly resolve these issues but currently, this workflow works like a charm for me so I will continue to use it until it does not!

Last edited by JohnJohnJohn; 12/28/13 01:01 PM.