How many tracks do yall record per session

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I was wondering whats the average tracks that yall do per session, im talking about laying vocals down and finish a song.

I hear somewhere on a tv show that 2pac did 4 songs in one session on the regular, lol me i cant even finish one song in one session.

Well how many songs can/do yall record per session.


Ha the reason of asking this is cause somehow i feel the burn inside of me and the urge if getting this tracks that i just wrote and i need to do done, tomorrow im trynna lay down my vocals for 4 songs (just like pac :) ) i have never done it before cause i always keep doing them over cause im never happy with how i sound i keep thinking i can do better.

But anyways how about yall?
 
?? a session - a recording session where the vocalist goes to the studio and pays studio time to record, u know thats his session (excuse if i misspelled it)
 
That's not what I meant. A session can be one hour or 12 hours. The lenght of the session determines how many tracks can be recorded. Yuh si mi??
 
most times isn't every 4 hour block is considered a session?
 
Pase said:
most times isn't every 4 hour block is considered a session?
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As far as I know, a session is anywhere between 1 hr to the whole day.

If Pac recorded the way they say (leaving all the imperfections), then he might be able to record four tracks in an hour. I doubt he did 4 per hour though.
 
A "session" is a full amount of time you are at a studio. If you pay for one hour only and leave thats a session. If you their for 4 hrs and leave thats a session too. One was an 1hr session and the other was a 4hr session. A "session" can be any amount of time you just have to pay more depending on how long you want your session to be.

Local artists that I know usually buy 4hr block sessions instead of paying by the hr.
 
A Session is certainly a general term unspecific in time. Usually it refers to an artist starting recording then at some point ending and going home. It can be a hour long Overdub session. Or it can be a 3 Day Mix Session. (I slept in the lounge while the other engineer worked and vica-versa)
It is possible to do all four tracks in the time it takes to listen to all for tracks if you are good and the engineer is swet up ect.

(By the way it took all my positive energy to keep from ripping this young brother a new brain for the innane original posting but I think I held it together pretty well and answered his question pretty nicely huh?)
 
I just got done w/ a session w/ a rapper I'm producing. This was the second one in the last two days. Yesterday we got the first verse done. Today we got the second verse. Tomorrow we'll get the third verse and polish the first two. Then he'll prolly come back and do them ALL over again cuz he's insane. Thank God for home recording, but last night it was about 3.5 hours and today it was 2.5 hours. A lot of the writing and idea combining happens here though, it's not all hardcore recording.. We also clown most the time.

I also recorded the chorus yesterday, and re-did it today, and that's prolly how it's gonna stay, cuz it sounds groate.

...yup

-Donovan
 
i basically have all the time in the world (other than skool and hockey practises) cuz i have a "studio" in a spare bedroom at my house!!! i record on avereage 16 tracks, in random places.... as a rule i record 4 bars, silent 4 bars, record 4 bars, then end recording, sometimes i layer the recordings.... depends.... i want to improve my recording tho!
 
why would you think 2pac couldn't record 4 songs in an hr. specially if he already have the songs in his head. this may sound impossible, but this guy i once record down south did 7 complete songs in 1hr 38 mins, i was pissed. i never have seen anything like it. he did doubles on all his main vocals, one adlib and 8 chrous runs on the chrous
 
alleiarts said:
why would you think 2pac couldn't record 4 songs in an hr. specially if he already have the songs in his head. this may sound impossible, but this guy i once record down south did 7 complete songs in 1hr 38 mins, i was pissed. i never have seen anything like it. he did doubles on all his main vocals, one adlib and 8 chrous runs on the chrous
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Who said 2pac couldn't record 4 songs in an hour? That is not the point. The only thing being discussed here regarding time is the fact that a "session" does not relate to any specific amount of time.
 
When Im with my peoples, it's 2 songs per session, with no mixing. It could easily be 4 if we tried, but that is really pushing it, plus we got things to do. Most of the time is spent with writing vocal parts. Mixing can take days.

It's different with "outsiders", cause they pay for "x" amount of sessions or songs...
 
It depends on how skilled they are and what they have done before they even get there.. My friend is a kickass vocalist, but sucks at the guitar, and we wasted like 2.5 hours and a few hundred takes on his fumblin up the guitar parts... And since I didn't know his songs........

-Donovan
 
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