|
And if you intend to put the drums on a grid, for god's sakes, please do it prior to the mix. And please, clean those regions.
Also, if you are savvy and meticulous, please remove all unused regions/playlists from the regions bin. Ensure that the removal of extraneous files also corresponds with the files on the drive. Nothing worse than transfering sessions from the clients drive to my personal 'work' drive to discover that a session, which could be have been reduced to 3 GB, comes in at 12GB. Now imagine working at 96k.
If you have additional takes cut these down to the bare minimum then rename/consolidate. ie. Bass 1 Take 2 w/pick, Bass 1 Take 3 w/Ebow, etc. You never know what will get used at mix time. It's good to have a few alternatives.
At the end of the manicuring process, zero all regions to ensure that if 'worst case scenario' is encountered then we can easliy align all tracks during the Import Audio to Track process.
I used to have a super-anal way of Manually Timestamping the regions. What I would do was instead of zeroing the region I would include only the necessary audio information in various protions of the track. i.e Bass 1 0.00.000 or Bass 1 0.30.243. This method saved a ton of hard drive space and was my M.O. for a while and still prefered, yet it's soooooooo time consuming. Of course, Ross Hogarth informed me that I had completely lost my mind, but hey.
Manicure people, manicure.
|