How often do you record your playing?

[tapper mike]

When I was constantly writing I'd cobble together a few ideas together formulate a chord chart and then after a few practice times I'd start recording. It would take several takes a day and sometimes several takes a week as I would also play backing tracks (this was in my four-track days.

Hook or by crook I'd have something mixed down and ready to share with the world. Coworkers, friends, fellow musicians.

About 20 years or so ago that had cut down to mostly jazz chord melody arrangements.

Now barely ever.

I think of this as I work through my scale patterns. What is the purpose of practice if not to enhance performance

Yes recording can be a huge process and even though you've practiced a million times you can have those moments where it's not jiving once you hit the big red button. Yes it's going to take several takes if you aren't used to recording. Even if it you are used to recording it still can take several takes

All that being said I'm recording again for my own enjoyment/punishment.

[Bombadil]

Rarely. I've been thinking about doing it more often, especially acoustic. The thing is with that, I had an AKG 414 in an elastic cradle. It was sitting there for a few years, out and ready to use. Except when I started recording again last August, after pulling out the mic stand with the AKG on it (for years) the elastic had rotted and the cradle was useless. Bought a new one...
Then one of my Dynaudio monitors died. Upon opening, it was discovered that a mouse had gotten in through the port in the back, chewed through the wiring, and the foam.
I bought a new pair of BM5iii-s, but my inspiration to record was kaput. It was like 35°C.
I'm getting back into it. I think I'll use a different mic that doesn't require the cradle. Then it can stay there.

[tapper mike]

Yikes

I should make a correction to my previous post. I do record weekly but not on guitar.
I'll generally record using my linnstrument.
I'll play through progressions using the score's "stories" on one take usuing the standard surface linnstrument


Then follow through with melodies and counter melodies using my linnstrument with the bumpy surface

[Bombadil]

Just answered. KVR unlogged me.

[tapper mike]

I'm seeing it

Rarely. I've been thinking about doing it more often, especially acoustic. The thing is with that, I had an AKG 414 in an elastic cradle. It was sitting there for a few years, out and ready to use. Except when I started recording again last August, after pulling out the mic stand with the AKG on it (for years) the elastic had rotted and the cradle was useless. Bought a new one...
Then one of my Dynaudio monitors died. Upon opening, it was discovered that a mouse had gotten in through the port in the back, chewed through the wiring, and the foam.
I bought a new pair of BM5iii-s, but my inspiration to record was kaput. It was like 35°C.
I'm getting back into it. I think I'll use a different mic that doesn't require the cradle. Then it can stay there.

[Bombadil]

No, another one in response to your 2nd post.
Basically, I said that I also sketched with my VIs, and with Logic, I don'*t have to worry about the red light as it has something called 'Flashback capture.' Don't even need play to be on. Takes pressure off. I'm a 'hate red light' person.

[tapper mike]

When it's a non classical song that I'm playing on the linnstrument. I'll generate backing tracks in BIAB
Then use the BIAB plugin to drag the tracks into Cubase.
I usually add two measures of just drums as a lead-in as I hate metronomes.

[Bombadil]

Yeah, me too. I also loathe click tracks and quantization. Logic has a way to record a tempo map as you're playing. So, I've been experimenting with that.
After playing to the click for so many years, my timing is reasonably good.
My buzz is playing with other people, though.

[mystran]

I don'*t have to worry about the red light as it has something called 'Flashback capture.' Don't even need play to be on. Takes pressure off. I'm a 'hate red light' person.

Alternate possibility where this isn't available is to just record everything... like .. literally have the thing recording non-stop, whether or not you're actually trying to get something recorded.

Edison in FL for example can do this somewhat intelligently (for audio; for MIDI there's supposedly a "time travel" option in FL itself, never used it): when set to "record: on play" it actually only records when the main DAW transport is playing (song or pattern, doesn't matter) and it automatically adds transport markers whenever you hit play or the pattern/song/loop/selection repeats (so easy time alignment with "snap to regions") ... but once you enable it, it'll keep recording whenever transport plays until you explicitly stop it (assuming you set the time limit option to something long enough; there's a "forever" option) which means you can mess around with your track, play on top of it at any point.. and you'll have it available afterwards... or if you recorded nothing useful, just trash it when you're done.

This is by far my preferred method of recording, 'cos.. I tend to get bit of a "red light panic" as well. The memory consumption used to be a problem in the past.. but these days if it takes a few gigabytes of RAM.. who cares.

[pekbro]

I rarely record myself tho my timing is freakishly good and I gen only need a single take, which I can do independently of the track.

*I have no control over this btw, my brain just naturally handles this auto-magically for me.
Absolutely nothing to do with skill or hard work or anything like that. I am also crazy good
at guitar hero.

[Winstontaneous]

Everytime I sit down to practice/play guitar or bass, I have a Zoom stereo recorder at 320k MP3 to keep track of any song ideas worth keeping. It's HQ enough to actually use in tracks, but doesn't take much storage space at all. My DI box feeds both an amp and my MOTU interface if I want to record to computer.

[CapnLockheed]

Now that I have more toys than any human has a right to? Far less than when all I had was one guitar, one amp, a few stomps and 4-Trk cassette recorder.....LOL!!

[TechHaus]

I rarely record myself tho my timing is freakishly good and I gen only need a single take, which I can do independently of the track.

*I have no control over this btw, my brain just naturally handles this auto-magically for me.
Absolutely nothing to do with skill or hard work or anything like that. I am also crazy good
at guitar hero.

I'm the opposite, I am sloppy and I record the same part a lot to find a special take where it seems like I have some awesome feel and character and build off that weird little sloppiness to create something special. It's like "That's the one!". Like that one note that is not perfectly on time in the middle of the lick that makes it catch your ear, or my slide between notes having a cool feel to it, etc.

Then sometimes I make someone good play it the way my I stumbled upon.

That's how my guitar parts come together

BUT - I have been a synth guy lately, where my timing is good.

[pekbro]

I rarely record myself tho my timing is freakishly good and I gen only need a single take, which I can do independently of the track.

*I have no control over this btw, my brain just naturally handles this auto-magically for me.
Absolutely nothing to do with skill or hard work or anything like that. I am also crazy good
at guitar hero.

I'm the opposite, I am sloppy and I record the same part a lot to find a special take where it seems like I have some awesome feel and character and build off that weird little sloppiness to create something special. It's like "That's the one!". Like that one note that is not perfectly on time in the middle of the lick that makes it catch your ear, or my slide between notes having a cool feel to it, etc.

Then sometimes I make someone good play it the way my I stumbled upon.

That's how my guitar parts come together

BUT - I have been a synth guy lately, where my timing is good.

Weird stuff like that run's in my family I guess. My one aunt, has a clock in her head, you can wake her in the middle of the night or whatever and she can tell you the time to the sec. My other aunt can perfectly replicate any image with freehand illustration, she used to make extra money in high school by pin-striping cars free hand.

I am kind of halfway between the 2 of them.