Josie,

This is almost ALWAYS what I end up with - not by design necessarily, but because I usually do three takes of entire run-through of a song, and then I comp the lead vocal from sections of those 3 takes. Normally I collect those parts into one track and the main thing I'm doing is just slight adjustments on levels on the individual sections. However, with the DAW software that I use - I can process the 'clips' on a track individually by dragging and dropping effects onto those individual clips, in addition to having a 'rack' of effects to use on the collection of clips on the track. I don't do the individual processing often, unless there's a reason. Sometimes this can be useful to add some interest to the song in general. With this capability, it can keep the track count lower if that becomes an issue from a screen-size management issue. I like to have all tracks fit on one screen, no scrolling, while doing mixdown. Sometimes this is limiting, but normally not so.

-Scott

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