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overdub

in multitrack recording
the addition of new sound to a recording; the blending of various layers of sound in one recording
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Overdubbing S4C in English would only serve to reinforce that tendency.
"The recording was quick and we opted to record all the instruments live as opposed to tracking to keep the feel and energy, only overdubbing vocals and acoustics guitars," says Thomas Joseph.
"I chose musicians that would bring out the best of the songs, and I wanted to record live - that interaction was very important rather than overdubbing things.
With its title taken from a portable overdubbing tape recorder that McPhee used when playing shows in the late 1960s, "Sound on Sound" featured three paintings and four drawings by Wool, a live solo performance by McPhee, and a new CD of old recordings that the jazz artist made between 1968 and 1973 [incorporating tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, toy piano, toy percussion, percussion, space organ, flute, feedback, kalimba, and Echoplex) with a cover designed by Wool.
"We wanted to go back to basics, go back to the source, itwas justmesinging livewitharhythmsection -nogimmicks, no overdubbing, no complicated horn and string arrangements, just get the song down in an entire take and capture that moment, right there," he said.
Topics include Cubase 5 basics and terminology, monitoring and recording audio, control room mixer, using VST sound, overdubbing, recording MIDI, MIDI and audio tracks, sample and key editing, beats and loops, creating FX channel tracks, equalization, writing automation, surround mixing, and project customization and optimization.
Aside from technical inventions that also included multi-track recording and overdubbing, Paul had a successful career as an instrumentalist.
This year workshops include alternative guitar tuning, belly dancing and a 'looping' workshop with Hamish Currie, where you can have a go at looping and overdubbing in real time.
The band blares over the overdubbing of the plosive hubbub of the throng.
I have been victim of a YouTube spoof too, with some clowns overdubbing an interview that I gave to ITN a few weeks ago.
One is by a rock band, the other by a woman overdubbing her voice to imitate a rock band.
Not only have Miramax chopped half an hour off the running time, they've also committed the cardinal sin of overdubbing the original dialogue.
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