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Originally Posted by eddiez152

The best way for the timing issue is to lay down a few words at the correct point, start another track below, and when you see the other track start begin the one you want to sing. Think of them as timing marks. Or write down the time at each point of entry in your track.
What ever you do, you must be familiar with the tune you are gonna sing to.

Thanks Eddiez, great idea, I've become a lot more relaxed about recording but laying down a vocal is still a slight problem, that's a better way of doing it I just wait for the music to start but miss the take off slightly, I think a band would kick me out after a while, I'm lucky with the tunes as I tend to write my own and it's alright when I'm playing usually but when I record it's hit and miss there's still a bit of pressure there, I have struggled with other peoples songs though that might be why I stick to my own more so I'm kind of avoiding the issue there a bit rather than meeting the problem head on, I do play other peoples songs but I rarely record them, the timing on the Runaway Girl clip is slightly out as I wasn't familiar with the BT that highlights your point about getting to know the tune it's very important, I still get lost in my own tunes sometimes, I just go blank for some reason, so I play the songs through a lot before I even attempt recording to try and avoid this happening, doesn't always work but it narrows the margin for error down, thanks for helping me out Eddiez

Originally Posted by Nutty

Hi Chris,

Does your DAW have "punch in" recording? I just discovered this and it really helps in these situations. I used to rerecord the whole track because I wasn't confident I could line everything up correctly. The "punch in" lets you identify the section you want to replace. You can start the recording before that spot (so you get into the swing of it) and it will only record over the section you have marked. It's really cool.

Nutty

Hi Nutty I have got that but I haven't used it before so thanks for pointing it out, I did and still do the same as you and rerecord which is quite time consuming and a tiredness factor creeps in, I'm trying to make recording as much fun as possible so I don't want to put pressure on if possible I'm still learning all the terminology, recording's a lot more fun than it used to be, when I let record run and lay down a few verses I get some interesting out takes the family find them very amusing so making mistakes doesn't bother me like it used to but I'd prefer to get things right, thanks for your advice Nutty

Thanks for the help Guys, hope you're both well

Chris