You cannot fix bagpipe tuning in the edit. On a recording there is the performance, and there is the tuning — and only one of them can be improved afterward. Get the instrument perfect before the red light goes on, because no amount of studio magic rescues an out-of-tune chanter.
Continuous drones make bagpipes nearly impossible to splice. Most instruments let you stitch the best parts of several takes together. With pipes, the drones expose every edit point, so plan on full takes — and sync overdubs by recording while listening to the first track, not just to a shared metronome.
Everything on an album is a decision somebody made. Track order, fades, reverb, drone levels, stereo placement, even the fold of the CD packaging — nothing happens automatically. Understanding the producer's role changes how you hear every great recording.
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