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I humbly request any and all opinions/suggestions regarding recording songs with ritard endings. 

I'll be doing some recording this weekend in a studio that uses a higher end Pro Tools rig, and using that program's built-in click.  I'm relatively comfortable playing along to the click, but I'm puzzled about what to do with the slowed-down endings + the click at the original tempo. 

Stop the click altogether before the ending?  Try to ignore the click and play through it?

I'm a total newbie/amateur buffoon when it comes to recording anything higher tech than the little Fostex 4-track machine that we use to record practices with.  I have only a handful of experiences in a "real" studio to draw from, and none of the songs I have previously recorded had this type of ending. 

Thanks for your help!    

 

Couldn't he just set the tempo track to start slowing down at the right bar?

Thank you, gentlemen!   

Your comments are very much appreciated. 

Which introduce sonic artifacts depending on the degree to which it is used and on what instruments etc.

The best way would either be muting the track, leaving it on, or setting it up to do what you would play. Rather than altering things after the fact.

Thanks again to everybody who offered suggestions!  I recorded those songs today without a hitch.  As suggested, I asked the engineer to mute the click at the time the songs slowed down.  Very natural, very easy.