Music Jargonbusting

[chrismuzz]

[quote name='tonyf' timestamp='1390562795' post='2346817']


Also, what about?

"Plays like butter" =
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I think that means that it melts on a hot stage.

[Dad3353]

[quote name='tonyf' timestamp='1390562795' post='2346817']
Also, what about?

"Plays like butter" =
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[attachment=153074:Bull_Butt.jpg]

Ignore it, it's a load of bull.

[chrismuzz]

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1390564886' post='2346870']
Why is recording an instrument sometimes called tracking?
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Simply because the recording is referred to as a "bass track"

[Norris]

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1390564886' post='2346870']
Why is recording an instrument sometimes called tracking?
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Back in days of yore, a recording was usually made to magnetic tape, divided up into several tracks - typically 4, 8, 16, etc. Each track would hold a single instrument/voice, or possibly a sub-mix of several instruments. The tracks can all be recorded at once, or separately. So "tracking" is the act of recording one or more tracks onto the tape, as opposed to "mixing" which is setting the relative volumes of each track after they have been recorded. The name has carried over into the modern digital world.

[Zenitram]

Right, yes, I knew that, but why call it tracking instead of recording? There isn't any difference, that I can see.

[skankdelvar]

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1390561272' post='2346785']
Borked.....(face palm)
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Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee.

Edited January 31, 2014 by skankdelvar

[Monckyman]

Completely true.

[ambient]

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1390568575' post='2346945']
Right, yes, I knew that, but why call it tracking instead of recording? There isn't any difference, that I can see.
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Tracking because you are recording tracks as opposed to a whole piece.

The tracks are then mixed down into a mix.

[Roland Rock]

OHSC?

[Dad3353]

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1390587058' post='2347342']
OHSC?
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[b]O[/b]riginal [b]H[/b]ard [b]S[/b]hell [b]C[/b]ase

[Roland Rock]

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1390587277' post='2347345']


[b]O[/b]riginal [b]H[/b]ard [b]S[/b]hell [b]C[/b]ase
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Makes sense, thanks :-)

[Dad3353]

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1390587471' post='2347349']
Makes sense, thanks :-)
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[leschirons]

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1390545641' post='2346559']
DP......


[size=4]Digital Performer...... [/size]
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Not in my world it isn't

[lowdown]

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1390589829' post='2347397']
Not in my world it isn't
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[size=4] I am Googling Le Creuse as we speak... [/size]

[Spike Vincent]

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1390513932' post='2346388']
Use this thread! Anything you don't understand, post it here and you can bet you'll have an explanation in a jiffy
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Although it might be stuff we made up..

[leschirons]

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1390592549' post='2347446']
[size=4]I am Googling Le Creuse as we speak... [/size]
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[Dad3353]

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1390592549' post='2347446']
[size=4]I am Googling Le Creuse as we speak... [/size]
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You may be disappointed.

[discreet]

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1390568575' post='2346945']
Right, yes, I knew that, but why call it tracking instead of recording? There isn't any difference, that I can see.
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Tracking is putting signal to tape. Mixing is playing the tape back through the mixer and applying effects and so on, then recording the results down to stereo. Both are different aspects of recording. Both are elements of production.

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1390567952' post='2346934']
Back in days of yore, a recording was usually made to magnetic tape, divided up into several tracks...
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What do you mean 'days of yore'? We recorded on 8-track analogue tape only last year! Not a computer in sight. Beautiful.

Edited January 25, 2014 by discreet

[subrob]

What is 'growl'? I thought I knew but I probably don't

[discreet]

DFA switch, DFA button: A control, button or switch that doesn't actually do anything that gets pressed or turned in response to a request for a change in sound or tone from someone who doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. Always gets the response, 'that's much better, thanks'.

DFA = Does F*ck All.

Edited January 25, 2014 by discreet

[Silvia Bluejay]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1390642972' post='2347784']
DFA switch, DFA button: A control, button or switch that doesn't actually do anything that gets pressed or turned in response to a request for a change in sound or tone from someone who doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. Always gets the response, 'that's much better, thanks'.

DFA = Does F*ck All.
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HAHAHA!! Brilliant

[leftybassman392]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1390642972' post='2347784']
DFA switch, DFA button: A control, button or switch that doesn't actually do anything that gets pressed or turned in response to a request for a change in sound or tone from someone who doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. Always gets the response, 'that's much better, thanks'.

DFA = Does F*ck All.
[/quote]

I heard a lovely story once about an engineer who'd worked on a Jeff Beck recording session. Another time perhaps...

[leftybassman392]

I have a nasty feeling that this thread could wind up deconstructing the entire English language. Well, not nasty exactly....

[Dad3353]

[quote name='subrob' timestamp='1390639062' post='2347738']
What is 'growl'? I thought I knew but I probably don't
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Growl = The tone a bass gives when trying to sound like a baritone sax, a burping, rasping light distortion over a bass fundamental.

...or...

Sound emitted by a drummer if anyone touches his cymbals.

...or...

a mushroom.

[Sean]

This thread ought to be a sticky but only if someone knows what that means.