There are 3 steps to any recording session: Basic Tracking, Overdubs, & Mixing.
How’s it work? Let’s assume our beat is done, & we’re working on vocals. Basic tracking would be your lead vocals, whether a verse or hook, its your lead. This is the “foundation of the song, the meat of what is being said.

Overdubs then, would be when you come back to emphasize certain words, shout in the back ground, etc. It’s all that extra stuff that happens behind the actual lead vocals. We’ll go over this more in the Mixing article.

When you think you’ve captured all the best takes on each individual verse, hook, intro, or whatever…you’re ready to begin mixing. This is what separates a quality production from the stuff that sounds like you rapped into the computer mic. (please don’t do that!)

We’ll be touching on all of these issues in greater detail later. But at least now you can sound a little more professional when you get to talking about!

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