ABSTRACT
This chapter builds on the content of the previous chapter by explaining how to overdub instruments with pickups and how to handle more complicated monitoring setups, with discussion of digital latency reduction, talkback/listen mics, and one-room workarounds. Building a performance through comping is dealt with in detail, including creating slave reels/projects, keeping track-counts manageable, and using double-tracking. Further advice is also provided on developing musical parts with a performer (addressing tuning, contrast, variation, register, efficiency, gaps, arches, countermelody, and dissonance) and improving their interpretation through maintaining a positive spin, using share imagery, working in abstracts, referencing lyrics, playing through mistakes, changing their posture/movements, conducting, and dealing in questions. There are also dedicated engineer's quickstart guides for recording guitars, string instruments, and electromechanical keyboards, as well as suggestions for working with classically trained musicians.
