Does anyone else make mistakes only when recording?
I practice over and over on something and for some reason I "overthink" it when the red light is blinking.
I need to find a technique to get over this.
Does anyone else make mistakes only when recording?
I practice over and over on something and for some reason I "overthink" it when the red light is blinking.
I need to find a technique to get over this.
Ha ha yep me too lol
Close your eyes and imagine you are on stage killing it. Try it.
The red light scares the bejesus out of me too, Jen. LOL
What kind of music do you play;Do you have this "red light"-thing only while playing tricky lead stuff or also while playing your rythm parts;
ahah , that's perfectly true, as well as the white page syndrome ...
best solution for me is to let the REC on while I'm jamming for ideas , or jamming on the fly on my tracks and hit REC when I'm warm enough
ahah , that's perfectly true, as well as the white page syndrome ...
best solution for me is to let the REC on while I'm jamming for ideas , or jamming on the fly on my tracks and hit REC when I'm warm enough
I think that could be the cure.
I go back to the days of the Tascam Portastudio to record demos and it would take me forever. I think because of the pressure of using a cassette tape and having limited space and what a pain it was to get it setup again might be the start of this.
With digital and the size of hard drives you can just let it roll and I should probably just do what you suggest when working on a part.
I like to record covers of some of my favorite songs (classic rock, folk, country) for my own enjoyment and to hear what my voice or guitar actually sound like. Occasionally I might get an idea for a song, but it's all for my own enjoyment and am not a professional.
But this can happen with simple rhythms also. I might play it ok and keep time, but it can loose the "groove".
I'm always blown away when I hear about artists like Brian Wilson and David Gilmour who can knock out a vocal part in 1 take. I remember seeing a Doc on Pink Floyd and David did a double for a vocal part in 1 take! No studio tricks just sang exactly like main vocal part in 1 take!
Yeah, haha... I think everybody's been there I think it's only a matter of practice - to desensitize yourself to it
I think that could be the cure.
I go back to the days of the Tascam Portastudio to record demos and it would take me forever. I think because of the pressure of using a cassette tape and having limited space and what a pain it was to get it setup again might be the start of this.
With digital and the size of hard drives you can just let it roll and I should probably just do what you suggest when working on a part.
Same here, Jen. ADAT was even worse 'cause of the even-much-longer-than-that time it took to relocate to the pre-roll position and recommence the process after a take.
Waraba's idea makes sense; continuous exposure should, in theory at least, help, as Michael put it, desensitise us to the dreaded red light.
"Red light fright". Put your DAW in loop mode and loop-record take after take until the adrenaline wears off. At least that's what I do!
-djh
+1 for loop mode, I use it on a daily basis