Originally Posted By: rockstar_not
The clock tip is pretty funny. I have a song that highlighted bleed of a click track (even though there were no open mics) that has haunted me for several years. I am finally getting around to re-recording it.

It's not noticeable until the fade at the end of the song, but there it is: tick tock tock tock tick tock tock tock gently whispering in the fade.



I was recording one of the first takes of Come & Go in my studio. My wife was downstairs working on a project for her classroom. It involved a large sheet of crisp plastic. She moved that thing and it made a noise that was picked up by the mic. It took me a while to figure out what that sound was. I've also had the occasional dog bark, car, etc sneak into a take.

I've had the metronome click get picked up.

When those things happen in the silent places, I just usually edit them out with envelopes or processing. Normally they are too low in the track to be heard over the vocal so those remain as hidden things in the track.

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