A question of workflow recording overdubs, how do you do solve this?

[NikolaiGabriel]

Hi everyone,

I've got an upcoming project that's a bit different from my usual workflow, and I could use some advice on how to tackle it efficiently in Pyramix.

My usual workflow recording:

1. I record each song live, one take after the other, along the timeline.
2. After recording, I use S&D to comp the best takes. And save each song as separate project files to have separate mixes for each.
3. Then there is usually just few small simple overdubs to record.

This project the band wants to record live with the drums, then strip away everything but the drums, and overdub all the other parts. While I was comfortable doing this in Pro Tools many years ago, I'm not sure how to best streamline this process in Pyramix when it comes to setting up tracks, monitoring, and busses for each overdub between multiple project files.
The only way I know is to manually set up the tracks, monitoring, and busses for each project file. This process is time-consuming and stressful, especially when I have to do it multiple times for each song and overdub with musicians waiting.

Ideally, I'd like to set up the overdub tracks and monitoring in one project file, then import those into the other project files where they're needed. This way, I won't have to spend so much time setting up tracks and monitoring for each overdub session. In Pro Tools, I could easily do this using the session import function. I'm not aware of anything similar in Pyramix other then importing whole mixers, but then the individual song mixes disappear, and the tracks could after a few overdubs be very different.

Any tips to share? How do you all solve this?

Thanks

[Arnoud]

Hi Nicolai, regarding your workflow. Are you aware that you could save a mixer for each song in the same session in the document library. I also do record multiple takes of a song, sometimes along the timeline, but also straight into a source destination project. In that situation every new take is recorded on a new source.

After recording you can do SD editing for comping. Next step is to make a rough mix for all the songs. Then I save these rough mixes by hold down Alt and Shift then Click anywhere on the Mixer surface and drag to a user library. A new item of the type Mixer Snapshot will appear in the library. The snapshot is named Mixer Snapshot by default. To accept this name just hit Enter. Otherwise, type a suitable name then hit Return.To recall a mixer snapshot simply click on it in the library, drag it over the mixer in the timeline.

When your satisfied about your mix, you can refine it per song and save it in the timeline with snapshot range function and activate automation play. This will keep all your songs in the same timeline, but with automation. Advise to lock horizontal drag of the clips in the timeline.

In your situation you might record the band+drums, compile the takes for the whole band on the destination. Remove the clips from the rest of the band so only the drums will remain. Keep the mixer and tracks. Copy the compiled drums several times on different sources. This way you can record several takes of every instrument on their own orginal track. With lock horizontally time you could drag parts of several takes to the destination for the final version.

Best regards, Arnoud