Subject:Acid mix onto vinyl

Posted by: ResQ

Date:12/18/2003 5:25:15 AM

Hello,
I use Acid Pro 4.0 for remix, I want to press on dubplate my work, but the engineer at the cutting lathe told me I had to bring my tracks "split", that is the instrumental & the acapella separeted. So him can master the track before pressing the vinyl.
Anyone know how to do that?
Sorry for my english.

Subject:RE: Acid mix onto vinyl

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:12/18/2003 5:57:31 AM

It's very odd that he should request that. It seems like he should be willing to press whatever finished work you give him. Then again, it's pretty odd that anyone would want to cut a project on vinyl these days anyway.

Assuming you have your vocals on separate tracks in ACID, you can mute all the instrumental tracks and render the vocals to a new .wav file. Then reverse the process; unmute the instrumental tracks and mute the vocal tracks and render the instrumentals to another .wav file. As long as you've registered the entire length of the project both times they will be in perfect sync.

Subject:RE: Acid mix onto vinyl

Reply by: marcarotsky

Date:12/18/2003 11:08:33 AM

did you use an acapella in the remix?? if you didnt, you CAN NOT separate pre-recorded music into its tracks. (acapella, synths, bass, beats) if you DID use an acapella, just burn each track separately onto disc. (the way you have it arranged in your project) i would also bounce all your tracks to a stereo mix. try to do as much mastering as you can yourself!!! (youll save a lot of $$) youre going to need a good editor though to do that. (sound forge)
burn all your tracks separately. but, also burn a rendered out "master" stereo edit.
HTH
--marc

Subject:RE: Acid mix onto vinyl

Reply by: DKeenum

Date:12/18/2003 11:41:43 AM

Could he be meaning that he wants several mixs to press: one full mix, one instrumental mix, and one accapella?

Subject:RE: Acid mix onto vinyl

Reply by: ResQ

Date:12/18/2003 4:01:50 PM

Thanks for your quick answers.
I did use an instrumental + an acapella but in order to press a dubplate ( I play reggae music), I need to give the engineer the instru & the acap separeted so he can master it, but I want them to be synchronized on the plate.
Chienworks & marcarotsky you are right, I know what to do now.
One thing I didnt really understand is::
/quote/
"As long as you've registered the entire length of the project both times they will be in perfect sync. "
they are both in sync, that's why I want to keep them that way, but do I need to tell the engineer the time frame or if I burn them on 2 separate tracks the lenghth of the blanks at the beginning of my project wont be altered.
From what I understand I can just go ahead & burn 2 tracks, from my project, mute the acap on one & mute the instru on the other.
Thanks for your time.

Subject:RE: Acid mix onto vinyl

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:12/18/2003 4:59:01 PM

Oops. I had a typo there. I meant to say "rendered" instead of "registered". Hopefully that makes more sense. Tell the engineer that both files are identical length and in sync. He can line them up in whatever mastering software/device he uses and it will be fine.

Subject:RE: Acid mix onto vinyl

Reply by: ResQ

Date:12/19/2003 5:27:36 PM

ok I hear you, thanks again

Subject:RE: Acid mix onto vinyl

Reply by: coolout

Date:12/20/2003 1:36:13 AM

no offense to anyone...but who still uses dub plates?

just invest in a cd deck and burn a cd-r.

an acetate will run you like $75-100 right?

you can get a pioneer single cd deck off ebay for a little bit more and play a new tune from home every week.

get two and you can do a whole set of your own stuff.

with all the new innovation in mp3 playback and vinyl emulation, standard dj cd deck prices have come down at least 30-40% in the past year or two.