A revolutionary technique for improving your work process

[nms]

Ctrl+s !

Yep.. Save that shit. Often! Save alternates too.
I've got myself into such a good habit with that these days. Tweak something? Like it? Save it! Particularly good for the OCD type who spend way too long tweaking something just right.

End public service announcement.

[chembros]

May I also add... Take a 5 min break every now and then. Mmm fresh ears.

[Yoozer]

Do as I say, not as I do, etc.

[Needle201]

During mixdown, listen to the track on different volumes.

Change the volume often, so you get different impressions about your track.
If it sounds good on low volume and high volume as well, you have made a good chunk of your work well.

[JRock]

Bang it out and get a rough draft while you're in the zone. Tweak it later. Don't get distracted by the details while you're feeling it.

[PaPi61]

Originally Posted by nms

Ctrl+s !

That is so 1990's...

Ever heard of autosave?

[wladymeer]

Best technique - publish your work.

Don't wait and shape for an infinite period of time as nothing will ever sound perfect and it shouldn't be. Every song should represent certain timestamp of your life. And such timestamp isn't possible if you keep modifying it over and over again.

[wax808]

Originally Posted by wladymeer

Best technique - publish your work.

Don't wait and shape for an infinite period of time as nothing will ever sound perfect and it shouldn't be. Every song should represent certain timestamp of your life. And such timestamp isn't possible if you keep modifying it over and over again.

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[MimikOctopus]

I lost my whole college portfolio in the worst series of events, had plenty of backups, but was dumb enough to keep them in one place and someone threw out the whole box. Didn't find out until my backup array failed, and I spent a small fortune trying to recover.

I keep backups now on flash drive, external hard drive, my drop box online, locally on the main drive and my other internal drives, NAS, my file server and I have a few things in a safety deposit box. And of course cd and dvd, keep copies on my ipod and phone too. That loss kept me from getting a job, it will NEVER happen again unless I die, my house burns down, the bank is robbed, and all 4 of my computers die taking every hard drive with it. *deep breath*. Sounds like overkill, but I know what it's like to lose invaluable data, and it really messed up my life. There's no excuse these days.

Keep many copies of your shit, storage is dirt cheap.

[wwjd]

I don't see "CTRL-S". Is that one of them thar computer dooma-hickys?
My RECORD button seems to save stuff without any effort

[d1rtynyc]

This post will be off topic....

Hey wwjd:
I saw your gear in your signature.
Do you have the analog compressor card for the D32XD?

I head that thing sounds pretty great.

Originally Posted by wwjd

I don't see "CTRL-S". Is that one of them thar computer dooma-hickys?
My RECORD button seems to save stuff without any effort

[ohmicide]

yep yep yep whenever I start doing major improvements and/or changes to a song or remix, I save it as a new project

kinda like this:

[Junket]

^ what theme is that?

shit is fresh

[SoundEng1]

Originally Posted by Junket

^ what theme is that?

shit is fresh

Nice! i want to know too

[ohmicide]

they're the Pry System folder icons by Jonas Rask

Jonas Rask Design

[wwjd]

Originally Posted by d1rtynyc

This post will be off topic....

Hey wwjd:
I saw your gear in your signature.
Do you have the analog compressor card for the D32XD?

I head that thing sounds pretty great.

I don't have the additional card, but it has 8 analog comps on the first 8 channel inputs. And I figured out how to self route through aux to stack effects making a "Channel strip" on input. I think the 32xd sounds grand. Been on DAW so long, I went back to the 32xd and it seemed so creamy and clean - even though my DAW was also just fine. The analog compressors in the 32 do their job, but I don't appreciate their sound enough. Kinda prefer the extended abilities of digital compressors in DAW plugins. But, now I can route 32 back through itself, and can stack preamps, limiters and digital comp along with the analog to carve audio like I want.

Recently ran into an issue where whispered vocals going into the analog compressors were WAY OVER "ESSED" - the comp doesn't cover those bands at low level or something weird. Not even usable to me until I looped it through it's own digital comp to catch the S spikes. (no built in De-Esser in the 32)

As of yet, I have no examples done on the D32XD to post since I been working in DAW land last few years. But I plan to turn off the computer completely, until mastering, and use the D32XD for all tracking and mixing in the future, so then I will have something to share.

[allen2288]

Here's my tip. Turn off the blasted internet.

[lapsi]

Best technique - publish your work.

Don't wait and shape for an infinite period of time as nothing will ever sound perfect and it shouldn't be. Every song should represent certain timestamp of your life. And such timestamp isn't possible if you keep modifying it over and over again.

Second this thumbsup

[KRE8A]

Originally Posted by wladymeer

Best technique - publish your work.

Don't wait and shape for an infinite period of time as nothing will ever sound perfect and it shouldn't be. Every song should represent certain timestamp of your life. And such timestamp isn't possible if you keep modifying it over and over again.

Originally Posted by lapsi

Second this thumbsup

Me 3rd.

[kaz1]

Originally Posted by wladymeer

Best technique - publish your work.

Don't wait and shape for an infinite period of time as nothing will ever sound perfect and it shouldn't be. Every song should represent certain timestamp of your life. And such timestamp isn't possible if you keep modifying it over and over again.

this is golden.

[ChristianRock]

Somehow Ctrl-S doesn't work on my all hardware setup with analog tape recorder + analog mixer setup