At what time do you start ? and stop ?

[malice]

Take it as some kinda survey.

I started 12 to 2AM thinking it was so cool to work at night


I must be getting old, because I started to love 9AM to 5PM (ok 6PM)

Am I getting old ?

Because I work faster now ...

How do you schedule your sessions ?

malice

[otek]

If I can help it, I try to keep the work happening between 10 am and 8 pm.

Sometimes that's not practical.

[Fulcrum]

I get home from the day gig, spend a bit of time with my wife, and try to get work in between 8 and 11 PM. On weekends it's pretty catch-as-catch-can between church on Sunday and friends on Saturday.

[Mixerpuppet]

If I can help it, I try to keep the work happening between 10 am and 8 pm.

Sometimes that's not practical.

Ditto...

But I used to work 8hrs as a design engineer and then another 8hrs in a studio till I got married...

The start time was always relative to the previous stopping time to assure enough sleep and head off potential mental breakdowns :)

Ok.. So I am old then... but having a wife/kids alter your timing more than your age...

[ajcamlet]

Start: Bloody Mary.

Stop: Whiskey.

:very happy:

[malice]

Start: Bloody Mary.

Stop: Whiskey.

:very happy:

Damn,

And I was wondering about starting a "what's your poison" thread :D

malice

[Comte de St Germain]

Never before noon.

[ajcamlet]

Never before noon.

the whiskey or the bloody mary?:lol:

[malice]

the whiskey or the bloody mary?:lol:

You guys are too fuckin R&R

LOL

:D

malice

[Kenny Gioia]

I have a theory on this.

It's really hard to start early.

We work in a very creative environment.

It's very hard to wake up and be creative.

Most people get their flow later in the day.

As that flow flows, you never want to stop it because it's getting late. So you keep it going.

Next thing you know, it's 3am.

So you start later and later each day.

Once a year I try to start at 10am and it turns into 11am into noon and always resides between noon and 1pm.

Doesn't matter what's going on in my personal life.

I get up every morning at 7:30am to get the kid on the bus and I still get to work at 1pm.

I'm not trying anymore.

Peace.

[Molly's Lips]

I don't think I could record anything good to save my life before 1pm. I'm nocturnal by nature. Sometimes I'll work a 12 hour shift, come home around 3am, and then work on shit until 10 in the morning. It's kind of depleting that way...oh well, if I didn't do it I'd go crazy.

[lebouche]

Maybe this should have been a poll.

I'm with the midday brigade.
People used to tell me its cos I dont get up early but nowdays I do and I still cant sleep till 4am and I still hate mornings....and cant really do much of value.
I used to have a dont speak to me before midday rule

[Comte de St Germain]

I'm up at 7am no matter what. The joys of having a 3 yr old.

I usually work nights, not always but it seems like R&R doesn't get cooking til later in the day. If we do a full run we usually start out with quiet stuff like vocals and build into tiresome heavy guitars after dinner.

It's 11:48pm and I'm prining 3.5 mixes I did today. The .5 is getting the vocal shoehorn out. It's an early night, yippee.

[David Aurora]

no pattern here at all. i tried a million times to get any kind of regular times but to no avail. theres always some job you just cant turn down but the singer giving you goosebumps cant start before 7pm...... then the next guy wants to track drums at 8 fucking am. i give up. when they say "im feeling it" im there to record it, day or night. but bear in mind im free as a fucking bird to do so, no kids, no ball and chain, no other work so im able to be this random. funny how our 8 hour day seems to be universally 12 hours+ though

[nobby]

Damn,

And I was wondering about starting a "what's your poison" thread :D

malice

AHEM! (http://womb.mixerman.net/showthread.php?t=73)

[Skwaidu]

I'm very slow in the mornings. Might be some similarity to what Kenny said. I often try to start earlier but more often than not it ends up as 11-12 before I get around to working....

[J.G.]

I like to start my day smeeeeeeeoooooooooth and easy, and not too early if possible--up between 10 & 11, mange, catch up on e's and other Net stuff, then workout, have a bath and get at whatever projects in the studio are at hand, be it writing, singing, editing, or being an extra set of ears.

Late last year, I tried to see if Ms. Early Morning had changed her tune with me and I got an alarm clock that was getting me up with the sun. This lasted no more than two weeks, and I see now that morning doesn't like me anymore than I like her--and--"I can go for that".

: J

[slabrock]

I make coffee at 8 AM.
I start drinking it 10 AM.
:very happy:

Seriously, i try to start my day around 10-10.30 AM but i don't really think i've ever done anything worth while doing before noon or maybe 2 PM. Including the time i spent in school as a kid.

I've been lucky enough so that i've never had an ordinary day job, so my natural clock is about the same as the people i work with. I'm on my most creative between midnight and 2 AM, and can easily continue until 7 AM which is usually when i really want to sleep.

My wife has an ordinary job, though, so often when i'm working on a project at home or so close to my home that i can sleep in my own bed (very rare), i make her coffee just before i fall asleep, the same time she has to get up. I've never had any sleeping problems, i fall asleep when i can, be it night or day.

I'm all for the 8-10 hr working day, but i think everybody new in the business should at least explore the creative madness you get from not sleeping for three nights in a row. Or at least an ordinary 16 hr day as they usually are. I personally don't mind the long days, if it's the way the work gets done.

Peace,

Slabrock

[bunnerabb]

Get up, breakfast, hose off, get to it, rock while it's rockin', quit when you can't go on anymore.

I have a clock but it's mostly decoration.