Finding Analog Equipment Tricky

[tekneeq]

Is it just me or is producing with analog equipment quite tricky? I'm trying to write a bassline with my Sub Phatty and I'm finding it it difficult to get the timing on point with my kick. I can't just highlight and quantize the notes I play. I actually have to do take after take of recording to get it right, and I still haven't gotten it right.

[djchriswoods.co.uk]

Welcome to the oldskool! Thats how we did it lol. or at least we would of sent midi from the computer to the synth and audio back into the computer.

The other way you could do it is to record your take, say an 8 bar take, and make adjustments to that and just loop it in your daw

[Tarekith]

Yes, it's kind of weird having to practice until you can play your instruments huh?

[SlvrDragon50]

I now no longer want analog equipment. :P

[jackastro]

Don't try to get it too "perfect". Make your playing fit a groove, not a grid!

[Ham]

The other way you could do it is to record your take, say an 8 bar take, and make adjustments to that and just loop it in your daw

No

Yes, it's kind of weird having to practice until you can play your instruments huh?

Don't try to get it too "perfect". Make your playing fit a groove, not a grid!

Yes

Practice my man.

[JasonBay]

No

Why no? Maybe he doesn't want to be a pianist, but he still has the chops to get down his ideas recorded? If he was planning to play live then yeah, obviously he would have to practice, but he's just trying to capture ideas and and create music, not be a performer.

I think Chriswoods has the right idea as that's exactly what I do. Just bang out some basslines, hooks, chords, and then go back and adjust to taste. Not sating you should lock them to the grid, but just go back fix any glaring mistakes.

[Ham]

Why no? Maybe he doesn't want to be a pianist, but he still has the chops to get down his ideas recorded? If he was planning to play live then yeah, obviously he would have to practice, but he's just trying to capture ideas and and create music, not be a performer.

I think Chriswoods has the right idea as that's exactly what I do. Just bang out some basslines, hooks, chords, and then go back and adjust to taste. Not sating you should lock them to the grid, but just go back fix any glaring mistakes.

I just view it as a cop out, mistakes are the greatest thing in music, why eliminate them?

[JasonBay]

I just view it as a cop out, mistakes are the greatest thing in music, why eliminate them?

Never said to eliminate them completely, but if you happen to miss one note and yet the whole performance besides that is solid, why waste it then?

[AllDay]

Never said to eliminate them completely, but if you happen to miss one note and yet the whole performance besides that is solid, why waste it then?

Talking to people who get paid to produce songs for other people on gearslutz. Every single one of them says recordall your main sounds, if its not right, do a retake. Once you go in and edit the arrangement it will sound more grid like.