Recording to a click - crap/not crap

[starfish2000]

I dont like recording with a click, but from an economic standpoint with regards to editing performances, it probably halved the budget of our bands album, so while I dont enjoy it, I appreciate why people do it. Although the best track on there was recorded without a click, but we'd been playing the song for years anyway.

 

[adsr]

We are in a mathrockelectronincary band with changing time signitures so we tried recording to a click. Plus we couldn't record the whole band at once isolated from each other. so we wanted to be record drums separately and still be able to edit. We found it comepletely destroyed any feeling in the songs and know he hate it.

 

[xenon]

When doing my own stuff, I always use a click. I'm using MIDI drums, so when I want to overlay fills, it's pretty vital to be able to locate a specific bar with the music matching. Although, if I do anything fancy that breaks out of the rithem, for a fill, bridge or what ever. I don't bother marking up that section with the specific changes. Just as long as everything comes back in solidly after the section.

 

[xenon]

Ah quantize.

I use this a lot on MIDI. Not that hot on the keys. Drums get the Q treatment too. Well for the main drum patterns. Then over dub fills with out quantizing them. I can't finger tap a whole drum track tightly on one pass. Can anyone?

 

[chooch]

Definitely not shit, though dependent on music. Would have helped the 24 tracks of slightly out of time shambles I'm currently trying to sort out no end.