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Summary: Playback the tracks of a song on a four track recorder to listen for mistakes and play around with the levels. Learn how in this free music production video lesson on how to record your own songs for cheap.
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: All right. So let's give it a listen. So right there, we just got the vocal and rhythm guitar track. We can bring the bass up. And kind the idea of this is, as far as the playback is just, just listen to everything, make sure one track doesn't really dominate the other tracks. You kind of get an idea of how you're going to mix it as you're listening to it, which of course mixing will come a little later, but you can just kind of play around with them and see which one sounds better above others and whatnot. And now we got three tracks."
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