Approaches to Tracking Vocals

Had a final recording session with Nelson before my next trip to the US.

One issue we often wrestle with is whether to do full-song takes or per-section takes.

I think the following might work well for us:

• do a few rough full-song takes with Nelson free to improvise and embellish
• listen to the song with those takes for a while (weeks) to see what variants we like (really needs to be done a distance from the recording session so we're hearing the song more like a normal listener does)
• come together and review what bits we like / didn't like
• do per-section takes to get each section sounding the way we liked best

I'll try this approach with a few more songs and see how it works out.