Scratch tracks

[pjrmusiclab]

Hi everyone, I never recorded totally through a pc before. I have purchased Ableton for recording, Ezdrummer 2 for drums and Ozone 7 for Mastering.
Q. In the online Ezdrummer tutorial is talks about creating a scratch track before you write your drum track. When recording a scratch track on a pc, would it go though Albleton first, or does Ezdrummer have an option for a scrach track built it.
Many thanks, Paul

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[Robert.Goble]

Scratch tracks are just another way to say “rough copy” like when you are writing something messy and quick before you take the care to do it right. In music production scratch tracks are used in a variety of ways.

If I’m recording a song and it’s in 120 BPM — I’ll start first with a metronome (click track) and play & record a guitar tracks to establish the song. I might do this with the bass and the vocals as well. These tracks might be really rough or they might be very well done — but the point is that none of them will be used for the final mix — what they are usually used for is so my drummer has tracks he can hear when he lays down his permanent drum tracks. Once the drum tracks are done and you are happy with them in terms of time and feel, then you basically re-record all your music tracks again but this time you use the drum tracks as opposed to the click track (you might use both) to play and record these new “keeper” tracks to.

The scratch tracks then get “scratched” or basically erased. That’s why they are called scratch tracks.

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[pjrmusiclab]

Hey thank you,
My question was not so much about the purpose of the scratch track, but more about, does the scratch track get made in Ableton my DAW, or directly into Ezdrummer.
Many thanks
Paul

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