Music Business Advice: Pre-Production Administrative Elements for Audio Engineers

Music Business Advice: Pre-Production Administrative Elements for Audio Engineers
In this video, we talk about some of the administrative work that I do as the audio engineer during the pre-production phase - hope you like it!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:13 - File Organization
03:29 - Collecting Song Info From Client
04:41 - My Questionnaire
05:39 - Release Plans & Splits
06:50 - Reference Tracks
08:27 - Discuss Emotion
09:47 - Session Musicians
10:08 - Complex Routing
10:37 - Scratch Tracks
10:59 - Approach / Order of Operations
12:45 - Scheduling
14:30 - Mic Setup / Routing Planning
15:16 - Outro

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[danymalsound]

A lot of this may sound elementary to people, but, after 20 years in the game, the importance of this info and the suggested workflows can NOT be overstated lol Bands really do need to be lead by the hand, unless they're veteran studio musicians. A few nuggets I'd even forgotten about that are great ideas I'm going to implement. You have a great flow and pacing in these vids. Nice work! Cheers.

[chrisrsp]

Thanks Cato, Great info I needed this, I'm wanting to start my own music production busy here in Idaho, Do you do like mixing tutorials or anything like that, I know you have some tidbits here and there about plugins and stuff, Love your videos!!