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So, if I may ask, @Funkfingers @Bridgehouse, how do you make it work logistically? Do you meet with your musical collaborators in person or do you send files around the ether? If the latter how do the final ideas make it on to the recording - I mean what happens if you’re asked to record something on software you don’t have?
Please don’t mistake my queries for pedenticism, I am genuinely interested. I’m also guessing you’re both used to dealing with musicians that are a bit more professional than your home studio warriors?
TIA
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
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Bit of trading feedback here.
Some may like to meet up, and usually this works by sending the track over, writing a bass line then meeting up to record it “live” - for others it’s a case of having a guide track sent over then recording the bass track as a separate track and sending back over in a standard format for mixing back in. Again, this can often be determined by the quality and standard required for the final finished track.
My collaborator and I live over three hundred miles apart. Face to face meetings are extremely infrequent, even assuming that annual leave can be synchronised. Fortunately, because we were at school together, we have sufficient understanding not to depend on face-to-face meetings for every slightest thing.
My collaborator can send me Garageband project song beginnings to develop in Logic. I can send him a stereo bouncedown in Garageband For iOS format to which he can overdub and, then, return just the overdubs stems to me.
In August, my collaborator treated himself to a new computer and Apple Logic X Pro software. He is currently acquainting himself with the full-on DAW. I suspect that, when he needs to record an initial demo idea quickly, he still trusts to Garageband. It is simple enough to transfer afterwards.
On a more detailed level, my collaborator rarely requests a specific bass guitar sound. He owns none. I'm not sure that he could tell the difference between the usual P, J, 'Ray and R suspects.