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Summary: Set up a four track recorder to cut a vocal track. Learn how to set up for recording the vocals of your song in this free audio production video guide on how to record music.
Brian Montgomery has been playing bass in Austin, Texas bands for more than 12 years, and has been recording on 4-tracks for eight years.read more
"BRIAN MONTGOMERY: Okay. So we're going to get ready to cut the vocal track here. Again, we'll XLR into track three, which is on the left, so input into the left, input in the back of the machine there and go ahead and switch that to the left there. What I am going to do for the vocals, I'm going to unplug our external monitors and actually monitor everything through headphones. That way the vocal microphone won't pick up the noise coming out of the monitors. So we're trying to keep everything, all the tracks, separate again. So it's pretty much the same, same as if you're just listening through the monitors, except you're going to be listening to it through, through headphones. And once you got all the switches and everything set and ready to go, we can get our levels and record the track."
eHow Article: 4 Track Set Up for Recording Vocal Tracks