Note to Self
Typical production procedure of an improvised session here, recorded just in stereo.
- Musicians meeting, having a chat and a tea, eating sthg.: 1-2 hrs, paid by musicians.
- Setup time: 1 to 2 hrs.
- Pause, more tea: 30 mins.
- Play time: 1 to 2 1/2 hrs.
- First listen to recording, providing a rough master, editing out obviously not needed parts: 4-8hrs.
Problem: In a group of musicians everyone with a volume control tends to turn themselves up way too loud instead of listening to the whole mix as a whole and not exaggerating their own role in it, unless it woudl have a musical function (improvisation is live composition after all)
- Thinking & communicating about edits, splitting consecutive takes, naming them: Unforeseeable, this can go on for ages, especially when there is more than one musician involved. :)
- Final mastering of say 1 hr of material: Initial setup, working for 4 hrs., refining later: 1-3 days, depending on feedback, complexity of material and number of desired output variants.
Note: You CANNOT fix it in mastering.
- Payment, if there is any: Let's not talk about it (often lower than 5€ per hour, to be income taxed).
- Reason to still do it: There's so much great new music.

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