Hello,

Thanks for your inputs.

Gee . . . I didn't realize anyone ever read any of my ramblings on my web site. LOL Thanks for reading!!!

As you can see in the "studio photo page", our current recording set up is two Roland VS2480 and one Alesis HD24. This basically does the job of Real Band. I also use Ableton and Sonar on my computer.

If I was working on my own project, time for production is my cheapest investment. In the case of "client project", I have to be aware of time spent on each song. While I'm giving away a lot of production time to get thing right, I still have to charge something for the time I work with BIAB and associated DAW work.

As I said before, my client is a "hobbyist" singer / song writer. He is a guitar player, like most of us, he is not proficient enough to match the "musicianship" of the players that recorded the rest of Real Tracks. Real Tracks are great . . . BUT the down side is . . . any parts, like the solos, would have to be played well enough to match the "musicianship" of the rest of the Real Track players. Real Tracks certainly brings up the expectation UP a bit.

This is what I'm thinking. I can not leave the basic "composition" of the solo to the hired studio musician. The solos would have to be written for him. This eliminates the time required to write the solo in the studio . . . which is expensive to do. The solo can be written as MIDI or by stealing riffs from various real tracks, even the ones with "out of range" tempos. Once the solo is written, I just need the session player's chops to play the solo. Half a dozen takes should give me what I need. It should take less than 2 hours to finish tracking the solo. Decent studio players around here charges $50 to $75 an hour.

Once the various takes are recorded, I can create a composite track by taking the best parts of several takes. There will be small overlapping parts at the ends of each comped parts. I can then export each part that makes up the entire solo as individual WAV file. I can then import the audio clips into Ableton and edit each clip to match the ends so that there are no overlaps. Then export the finished solo back to the recorder and mix it there.

Well, I was hoping to find a "secret cache" of soloists somewhere on my BIAB HD that I missed. I'm glad I was not holding my breath.

Thanks everyone

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