Problems in the drum track: an afterbeat side tom covers the bass frequencies and overall too much low low frequency garbage. Probable cause: not enough attack and clarity (highs) and way too much muddy/ boomy lows/ mid-lows. When the bass is turned up to make it intelligible, it is simply too loud. More messing around with BIAB made it very clear this cannot be fixed in Band In A Box itself. The bass and drum tracks fight constantly for the same sonic space. I had to cut the crap out of the lows in the guitar track to make it a bit distinguishable.Įven the double bass and drums without the guitar added where impossible to balance. When the guitar was “loud enough” it clashed with the double bass, together they became just a mumbling and rumbling mess. Once the tracks finished I decided to make a chord (comping) video lesson using this track. So, yesterday I made a backing track for the tune Sunny (Bobby Hebb) in a special version geared to guitarists, for chord practicing or playing in a trio setting, and for pianists, so they can play doing their own left hand comping. When you make a track consisting of drums, bass and piano, which is a classic backing setting, there should be some space leftfor your soloing, both sonically and comping-wise, but BIAB does not always leave enough space to fit that third or fourth instrument (you) in.
One of the things that bothers me most of all is the sometimes too busy arrangements and also the lack of sonic space and balance in the tracks that come out of Band In A Box (BIAB).īIAB is an accompaniment software, but one would doubt it sometimes. Sounds dropping out, silly breaks, weird chord voicings, crazy endings, instruments totally out of balance making drastic mixer adjustments necessary etc, etc… BIAB can however be temperamental sometimes.
I make it no secret that a lot of the backing tracks you will find here are made with Band In A Box.
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