How many tracks do you use in your songs?

[Bonteburg]

hey jackson!
Listening to your set, slick stuff!
Some cool noises at 33:35 ...
are those your own or are you "only" spinning?

[Arglebargle]

usually no less than 35, and sometimes more than 100.

[jackson]

hey jackson!
Listening to your set, slick stuff!
Some cool noises at 33:35 ...
are those your own or are you "only" spinning?

Cheers Not around a set of speakers right now, but are you talking about the Pink Floyd broken record bit?

Yeah, it's me "only" (:hihi:) spinning.

[Bonteburg]

not listening anymore now but it was somewhere around the pink floyd bit, ca 33 minutes into it with lots of 909 rimshot action..

[jackson]

That'd be Hipp-E's Brovas Darkness most likely. Here's the tracklisting in case you're wondering:

Jimpster - A Love Like This feat. Diamondancer
Santiago and Bushido - Down
Amel Larrieux - Get Up
Ricardo Rae - Where The Love Goes feat. Alyson Joyce
Mario Fabriani - Attack of the Disco Bubbles
Joshua - Come Over 2 My Place
Troydon - Shake That Groove Thang
The Sound Republic Pimp (Hodges in the Guesthouse Mix)
Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Live)
Hipp-E - Brovas Darkness
Flicker - God of Friction
Natural Rhythm - Uh Oh
Truman Industries - Love Plus
Lawnchair Generals - The Truth
Deep House Souldiers - In My Bag
JT Donaldson - Just Bounce
Justin Martin - The Fugitive

[Bonteburg]

thanks.....

[Gartanius]

I usually use anywhere between 60 - 150 tracks, sometimes I mix them all down to two or four tracks and overdub more. I like recording psychedelic stuff that has multiple layers of sound all over the stereo picture out of both speakers. Even with my vocals, I overdub like 20 times and synch it all together so the vocals sound unique in each song. As long as it sounds decent and is still capable of being recreated live and sounding just as good - yay! Sound pictures that mentally capture the mood of the lyrics is my main target, while keeping within a Beatles / Pink Floyd type of sound.

[jeffb01]

I love computers and unlimited tracks. I don't know if anyone knows who frank black from the pixies is or even cares, but all his later records after he gotted dropped from the major labels were recorded live to 2 track. No overdubs, if one person messes up part, redo the whole song. I guess he thinks it has a different energy and sound to it. The engineer reallly must earn his or her pay for that job.

BTW, I use about 24 tracks, but I use them loosely and only 5-9 track will be playing at any one time.

[Epiphany]

Im another one who doesnt know when to stop; I think it down to hearing the same musical parts ad infinitum, the need to add parts just to keeep yourself interested. In the process of course, you end up masking the ideas you started with, and can ultimately never listen to your loving creation without mixed feelings.

[MasonAtom]

Usually 16 to 25 tracks. 5 to 8 for drums, 5-9 for guitar, 1 for bass (but will probably increase to 2 or 3 in the future), 4-7 for vox. Sometimes I'll have an extra track for soundbites and weirdness. Usually have a separate send/return verb for both vox and drums.

[dexitron]

Too many sometimes!! usually 20-30.good idea to seperate them, especially if using fx

[blaster78]

anything between 3 and 211 it would seem

[BLynx]

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[ew]

Anywhere from 2 to 20, mostly depending on how many drum tracks I've got going and whether I'm recording live improvisations or not. The average's probably between 8 and 10 for "studio" stuff, and two (one stereo track) for recording live improv.

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[johnny2johnny]

its all different for everybody i guess, averaging 15 to 30 over here. usually 7 - ten for drums, crs, c ht, o ht, kik, rde, snr, a sub mix, a parallell, bass, and maybe 5 to 15 more for synth lines and effects, etc...