What are the benefits of recording vocals as a scratch or guide track and adding the final vocals later?
A. This is a tried and true technique that many studios and producers have been using for decades with considerable success. For example when a group ensemble comes into the studio to record, a band that has a guitar, bass, drummer and lead singer, with occasional background vocals, this is how this technique would work. The group would all be setup to record together but final vocals would not be recorded along with the basic tracks, only a guide vocal so that the band can follow along and all know their places. After all the instruments are complete the singer can concentrate solely on the vocals without worrying about messing up along with the basic tracks, and can even take a line of the song at a time, or do alternate vocal takes, picking the best or mixing and matching takes together to form one composite track. Those are the performance benefits of this, on the technical end you will achieve a much higher quality vocal recording. The vocals will be isolated from any instrument b
