Cutting edge systems - how’s that workin’ out for ya?
KeithHandy posted in Producing, Tools on September 4th, 2007
The board…
…she’s a-fillin’ up with stickies.
And check marks too. Just to remind myself, lest I feel overwhelmed, that several of the songs are already, in fact, done. I can just double check the mixes on those, and then archive them.
There’s another important part of my system that I left out, which is so simple and obvious that it’s easy to neglect: when I’m done working on a song for the time being, unless it’s in some editing stage where a track is chopped up in little segments and not completely synchronized to the rest of the song (which I try to avoid leaving that way), I run off a working mix as a .wav file, and put that in a directory called “Most up-to-date mixes”, which contains sub-folders for each album, plus one sub-folder called “Not backed up yet”. This way, if I want to refresh my memory on how a song is sounding lately, I don’t need to launch Tracktion and load the whole darned project.
These mixes will initially go in the “Not backed up yet” folder, until they’ve been FTP’ed to my new Amazon S3 account via Transmit. In the event of a burglary or fire, this feels safer to me than using CDs or DVDs. Hopefully I will never need to download them.
