Recording With Lutefish
Recording performances, song ideas, and jams is often an essential part of the creative process. That’s why Lutefish offers several options for recording your sessions. You can record the full mix of your session as a stereo track, record a video (same as stereo mix, just with video added), or record everyone’s audio to a separate track using the Stem Recording feature. With every option, you can record up to one hour of continuous audio and/or video.
Recording options
Stereo Audio
Shown as “audio only” in the session record menu, this is the simplest recording choice. Choosing this option produces a single stereo FLAC audio file. This option provides no video or individual track recordings. Of all the recording options, this produces the smallest file size, making it the easiest for quick sharing.
Video + Audio
This option provides a single MP4 video file that contains both a split-screen video of the musician’s webcams and the stereo mix of the session.
Stem Recording
Stem recording records the audio from each Lutefish Stream into a separate track. Each track/stem is recorded in mono and stored in a FLAC file.
Recording Sessions and Accessing Files
Record your session using the record button in the mixer toolbar (left of the mixer panel button).
Choose your recording type from the drop-down menu. Recording starts as soon as you make a selection.
Your audio recordings are stored in your music files, which you can access by navigating to My Music Files in the main account drop-down menu.
Recording Tips
Getting ideas down
For creating song sketches or capturing live ideation and happy accidents, record your stereo mix. This is the easiest way to get a high-quality audio print of your ideas for later reference. While a stereo mix doesn’t offer the post-processing flexibility of multi-track stem recording, it also doesn’t come with the extra labor of assembling those tracks into a mix. It’s ready for you right away as a small but high-quality audio file that you can easily share as you continue to develop your ideas.
Recording a session for quick sharing on social
If you want to share something quickly with your audience on social media or elsewhere, we recommend recording a video. The video option in the recording menu provides a stereo mix recording along with the gallery video view of the session member webcams.
Record for mixing and post-processing
For a more polished result, choose stem recording. With everyone’s audio separated into different tracks, you’re free to take the tracks into a DAW for mixing. There, you can adjust levels, apply EQ, and add effects at the track level.
Mind your Mix: It matters who starts the recording.
For stereo and video recording, Lutefish will record the audio mix of the device that starts the recordings. For example, if the drummer starts the recording and has their individual mix set to a really high drum volume, that is how the audio will sound in the recording. For this reason, we recommend using a device/session member with a good general mix for recording or setting the individual mix of that device appropriately before initiating recording.
Don’t disconnect the device or turn it off after recording a session.
Lutefish first records your audio and video directly to the device before uploading to the cloud. This is why its very important to keep your Lutefish Stream connected after you finish a recording. Wait until you can see your files on the platform before disconnecting the device.
You can only have one recording option active at any given time.
You can record up to one hour of audio/video at a time.