Background Vocals and Tracks
Sony MCI JH-24 Track Analog Tape Machine
It is not unusual to record 24 tracks of instruments when doing a typical pop song.
But it is unusual to record 24 additional tracks of just background vocals. This is what was required for a song that I am currently working on.
In fact, there was so many tracks used on this song, that even when they were minimized in size to their smallest setting, and even keeping them in their respective folders, they would all not fit onto my 1600 x 1200 screen that I am using.
Here is a screen capture of my Nuendo machine with the song loaded. There are tons of tracks.
Screen capture with all of the vocal tracks used.
This simply could not have been done without spending tons of money to go along with the tracks before the advent of digital recording.
Thank goodness for digital!
And to top it all off, everything is being done on one computer. It’s my AMD 64 computer that I got from AMD as an endorsement.
Of course, it’s a very very fast computer, but the fact that it can even be done on one computer now simply amazes me.
I remember when you could only get 24 tracks on a 2 inch tape… and each tape cost $150 and you only got 15 minutes worth of recording on it.
Times have sure changed.
Another view of my Nuendo Screen with All Tracks (click on it to see full size)
