[RWP] Audio slates in Reaper, is there any point?

[John Schucker]

I have no idea why people think daws are special. A daw is basically 
replacing your tape machine. OK, a lot of other stuff too, once you get 
into processing with plugins. But my point is, even though you can get a 
hell of a lot more tracks in than 24 or 47 or whatever analog deck X 
supports, tracking is tracking.

My point being, if it made sense to do that sort of thing with analog 
recordings, it probably makes sense to do it in a daw, for precisely the 
same reasons. You might say, well we don't need that kind of 
organization, because we can just label tracks or clips or whatever, but 
that doesn't really matter. You're still doing the same thing, just not 
in audio. Of course if you don't record with takes and just redo your 
stuff until you get it the way you like it, overwriting/undoing the 
previous take(s), then of course it doesn't make any sense, as you don't 
have multiple takes to choose from. You might also reduce the number of 
takes and mixes, e.g. if you can immediately reject a take/mix. That's 
maybe a difference we have, if we're recording for ourselves we can make 
those decisions, whereas if you're recording for somebody else, in 
theory they get to judge the takes/mixes, or at least have some input.

That's why I don't get some of these people who feel you can just do any 
old thing and fix it later with EQ and effects and all in the daw. Nuh 
uh, I say. You still gotta be a decent musician. You still gotta play. 
Similarly, a compressor plug is till a compressor, tracking is still 
tracking, EQ is still EQ, and so on. I'm sure daws have given us effects 
unique to them, or at least, if nothing totally new, then new ways to 
manipulate something like reverb. But at bottom, a daw is just doing the 
exact same job as the hardware it replaced. So my assumption is, if it 
made sense then, it still makes sense now, until proven otherwise. And 
that generally works pretty well, because honestly, way less has changed 
with daws than some people think. I mean in terms of what you're 
actually doing with recording and all of that, the basic stuff. That's 
why I like this site, it cuts through a lot of the bullshit. And, agree 
or disagree with him, at least he's speaking from experience. Take, for 
instance, his post on the Behringer BCF-2000.

http://www.recordingreview.com/blog/

On 7/14/2014 8:14 PM, Jes wrote:
> Hey guys.
> So, I am quite fascinated with analog studios and listening to 
> outtakes. Often the engineers in the control room would announce an 
> audio slate before a take began. IE, Smith take 1, take 2, take 15, 
> etc. Is there any point in doing that anymore with daws? If so, why?
>
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