Recording/editing mixing log/diary

[lebouche]

Is there anywhere on line I can check out a pro log of a project to see what I should be noting down. Most, I'm sure I'm doing from common sense, but I'm getting bogged down in random sheets of paper.:Razz:

[otek]

Would you believe it, Mixerman's Diaries (http://www.mixerman.net/diaries_main.php) is a very good place to start - and it's a fun read, too! :D

[lebouche]

Cool I'll look out for a piece on studio logging...So far have read the first two weeks but he has an assistant!!

[lebouche]

Whoops...btw thanks!

[malice]

lebouche,

I envy you.

You haven't read them yet.

lucky you are.


malice :Wink:

[dwoz]

One thing that's in your favor these days is that a DAW project is pretty much "self-documenting".

Just make sure to label all tracks, pick GOOD mnemonic names for your files, make each setting on your plugins a preset and label it with project name/track name, and save it.

When you open back up, its all there again.


But of course, you have to label any of the outboard stuff you have going on.

For the most part, relative amp placement in the room, any specific treatments applied (gobos, etc.), the mic used and a description of where it was placed, amp settings. For drums, pretty much the same thing, except for amp settings. If you're going out to a summing solution instead of entirely ITB, then you of course write down the settings of the stems.

Basically, think it through. You had a mix up last week. This saturday, you had to fumigate the studio for lice, and unpatched everything and put it out on the lawn. You unfortunately breathed too much of the fumigant, and spent a week in the hospital, suffering from some temporary short-term memory loss. you moved the studio back in, and now you have to set the same mix back up. What do you need to do that?


dwoz

[lebouche]

Fuck I'm in trouble then...Think I'm gonna get a hard back book for each project and photo document some of my outboard settings..I've been doing that with my mics. I was just wondering if there was a template pro's used like a session sheet or something.
Thanks,

[eagan]

I figure dwoz probably summed it up the best. If you had to do the whole project over from the start, but you liked what you had done already, what would you need to remember?


JLE

[dwoz]

I figure dwoz probably summed it up the best. If you had to do the whole project over from the start, but you liked what you had done already, what would you need to remember?


JLE


If you look around yourself as you sit in your "spot"...you see lots and lots of stuff that is a "gimme"...you ALWAYS patch 1-8 off the ADC into channels 1-8, you have a "standard" way of routing your board, etc. That stuff probably doesn't need notation. Just where you've done something slightly out-of-the-ordinary.

dwoz

[lebouche]

I wish! I just installed a digital patchbay and I'm still having to plug and unplug accordingly. I seem to reorganise my setup every month...stripping it down and making it more practicallbut at least it's getting better.
Dwoz does make sense...I was just looking for shortcuts..I can provide a little common sense.
Homemade all the way!! Since this was taken evreything has changed a again but heres a recent pic. I am loving doing this despite the graft and you peeps are making things much better.
I hate being rubbish at my job...nothing is more satisfying than knowing you can get things done.
Thanks