Thanks Kent. I just went back to realband and double checked my search of both "overdub" and "overdubbing" in the help. I get the little popup "No Topics Found".

My understanding of this term is my re-recording my whole track again is in fact overdubbing. It is just not doing it in multiple tries but a single pass (a second chance at getting the whole performance at an acceptable level). So overdubbing is a bit of a generic term I suppose.

I reread you post. What you suggest makes sense. So my understanding is if I was to do that with say 5 tries at playing my whole part I should go back and use the cut command to remove whatever I do not want from each one rather than use cut and paste to try to patch the good stuff into a final track. I would assume that in doing this there is no need to use the metronome sync feature.

Sometimes I think it is just better to go directly to the product and look at the buttons, click on them and read all the stuff and take some guesses or even use these terms in the youtube/google searches hoping to find stuff. I just did that and found the button "Punch in" which is a term I am use to from many years ago with tape overdubs.


Anyway, for now I am happy :-) Maybe after the next jam when I am mixing the recording to put on soundcloud I will push my skills with RealBand a bit farther. My preference is to watch videos if I know they have the pay dirt of what I am looking for :-) Putting all the possible keywords into the video notes might be worth considering as a way to get the best videos to watch to show up first. As an example the youtube "PGmusic RealBand metronome sync" brought up nothing where as in google it does. At this point I can't visualize how I would use such a feature. I was just curious if a video would give me that answer. All our recordings from the jam have the BIAB count in so I don't really need a metronome. I am not out to get a record contact with perfect recordings :-) Market trading is a much better bet for making money and I know all I need to know there :-)

Last edited by bowlesj; 11/27/18 06:00 PM.
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