Re: visual metronome

[Andreas Wetterberg <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk>]

He dislikes headphones? AND click tracks? Does he dislike this to the 
point that he - under no circumstances - will submit to using clicks and 
'phones? Dude, is this guy a ...professional? I'm sorry, but in all 
honesty, it doesn't sound like it.
Have you explained your needs to this drummer? I find that a lot of 
drummers are initially opposed to playing along with click tracks, but 
most if not all the drummers I've recorded or played with over the years 
have eventually softened up to the idea, once the posibilities of 
working this way are made perfectly clear to them. Explain to him that 
you can't be a drummer in the digital age and NOT play along with a 
click. Using a click will broaden their scope substantially.

you could always lay down the rest of the track first, and then conduct 
him while you listen on headphones. Or at least threaten to do so!

Andreas

Tim Nelson wrote:

>I'm recording with a drummer who dislikes click tracks
>and headphones, but we have a need to record some drum
>parts with a fixed tempo so they'll match up well
>later when chopped into reassemblable loops.
>
>It occurs to me that a metronome which, instead of
>making an audible click, would flash a light could
>work quite nicely. I've never seen one like this
>commercially available; have any of you?
>
>-t-
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