Can any serious work get done in less than 3 hours? I'm starting to get really annoyed having less than 6 to 8 hours to do work.
Anybody else?
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Esquivel! recorded an album and a half in a standard 3-hour session back in the 50s.
Pretty sure four guys from Liverpool threw down their first masterworks 3-hours at a time too. It's been a while since I read that book on their sessions, but I know that was the standard session length.
Really though, it depends on what you're doing. Vocal overdubs can't often go more than 3-hours (including breaks) because the singer is pretty shot after that. I don't mind doing edit sessions in 3-4 hour chunks, or even mix sessions if we're aiming to get one tune finished, or maybe two.
But don't get me wrong, I do more 12-14 hour sessions than I really should (especially as a government employee). Just depends on the work, I guess.
-Jeremy
Pretty sure four guys from Liverpool threw down their first masterworks 3-hours at a time too. It's been a while since I read that book on their sessions, but I know that was the standard session length.
Really though, it depends on what you're doing. Vocal overdubs can't often go more than 3-hours (including breaks) because the singer is pretty shot after that. I don't mind doing edit sessions in 3-4 hour chunks, or even mix sessions if we're aiming to get one tune finished, or maybe two.
But don't get me wrong, I do more 12-14 hour sessions than I really should (especially as a government employee). Just depends on the work, I guess.
-Jeremy
I suppose it just depends on the artist. I've was in a band that recorded for 4 hours a night when we were doing our cd. 6 songs in 6 six nights and two sessions for mixing...I've gotten to work with some artists and after three or four hours that was three or four hours too much...Sometimes though I'm thinking damn I wish this could go on for a few days, this is too much fun....
Of course I've had it in the ear before.....
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'course, I'm in a different part of the audio universe, but I typically am only given one or two hours to do just about anything--radio spots, music edits, effects/design stuff...
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"Lots of people are nostalgic for analog. I suspect they're people who never had to work with it." ? Brian Eno
All the DWLB music is at http://dwlb.bandcamp.com/
3 hours is the longest uninterrupted block of recording time i can even fantasize about having anymore.
in 2005 i tracked and mixed a full-on cover of Pink Floyd - Mother in 5 hours!
...tho dwlb later improved it greatly by remixing it for me.
in 2005 i tracked and mixed a full-on cover of Pink Floyd - Mother in 5 hours!
...tho dwlb later improved it greatly by remixing it for me.
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