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Old 05-03-2021, 05:54 AM
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I have now, an embarrassing amount of times done this:

1.Hurried bounce to disk, wetransfer, go to work

2.Composer friend emails me that the click track is all over my recording.

I KNOW i'll do this again. Can anyone think of a way of routing the click track so I hear it, but it doesn't go to the bounce if I forget to turn it off.

Thanks in advance, folks.
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Old 05-03-2021, 06:04 AM
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There is the mute button you know...
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I kill the click track as soon as possible(yes, I have made the same goof). Just remember, as soon as something becomes idiot-proof, they come out with a better idiot
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Can anyone think of a way of routing the click track so I hear it, but it doesn't go to the bounce if I forget to turn it off.
If you have a spare output channel on your audio device and an old speaker in storage, just route the Click Track to that output channel so you can hear it playing but it is not part of your main Output Path that you are bouncing.
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I have now, an embarrassing amount of times done this:

1.Hurried bounce to disk, wetransfer, go to work

2.Composer friend emails me that the click track is all over my recording.

I KNOW i'll do this again. Can anyone think of a way of routing the click track so I hear it, but it doesn't go to the bounce if I forget to turn it off.

Thanks in advance, folks.
Without knowing your actual system just guessing in the dark
But I can think of two possible answers .


#1 as noted output the click to it's own channel and feed that physical output to it's own speaker


#2 Or probably better yet rethink you workflow habit and make recording and mixing more or less two different steps/processes , with as little mixing as possible while still recording all the tracks .. And simply make the switch to the mixing process a conscious change in workflow with muting the click track as signaling the start of that second process of mixing . (not to mention, while still recording multiple tracks and using a click, you should get in the habit of intentionally turning off the click and listening to the tracks without it as you go .

Or simply stop force yourself into the advisable habit of stop doing "a hurried bounce " and make muting the click the beginning of the 3 rd bounce process... Because there is never a good reason to hurry .
As the old horse whisperer said " the faster you want it ,,, the slower you go "
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I KNOW i'll do this again. Can anyone think of a way of routing the click track so I hear it, but it doesn't go to the bounce if I forget to turn it off....
Two things:
In my sessions, everything routes to a mix bus - that bus gets routed to physical monitor output through an Aux called "Mix Monitor". There's also a "Print Track" when I want to print the mix. Both these tracks are solo iso'd. The click track (and other stuff like RX Monitor, reference audio, pitch reference) are routed directly to the physical monitor out - this way you can hear everything all the time, but there's no danger of those extra sources ending up on your printed mix.

Don't know about you, but nothing leaves here without me listening to it first (at least a spot check even for quick off-line renders for temp refs).
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1.Hurried bounce to disk
This is your problem IMHO - we've all done it! I guess I'm unclear as to why you'd want the Click going during your mix to begin with? Have it on for editing/comping for sure, but once you get that stuff done just turn it off.

On a side note, I'll often automate the mute on the Click track so that there's a count-off at the beginning for various reasons, or to kill it for sustaining notes on a softer instrument like piano or acoustic guitar - that way it doesn't bleed through at the end of the song.
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