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Usually, recordings from professional studios and experienced engineers arrive in good shape.
Always a help:
- Label tracks.
- Organize tracks
- Consolidate audio.
- Duplicate any audio you intend to process so there's a copy of the original in tact.
- Attach clear documention with session specifics and delivery requirements.
- Always retain a backup of the original session.
Occasional problems to avoid (typically not from professional studios or experienced engineers):
- Do not over compress while tracking. Especially vocals.
- Make sure that any recorded distortion or overloading is intentional and not an oversight.
- If you're not going to attend the mix record or automate your drop outs in advance.
- For those who've just purchased a new keyboard...resist the urge to record every percussion instrument offered by the new toy.
- Also with keys, unless the reverb is essential to the sound turn the keyboard verb off. Especially on bass.
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