Keeping Records

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Tom Volhein
How do you keep documentation of tracking methods for each song that you do. So that you can go back in the years that follow and remember how all the instruments in a given song were tracked.

I am in the process of re-mixing some old songs and don't have records for how each track was set up.

Thanks for your ideas,

Tom
 
I should, but I don't...

My intern does, however.

Oh, wait... I don't have an intern. :eek:
 
during sessions I have a little marker board to keep track of everything thats going on.
I also always keep a note pad file in the folder of the artist with comments and anotations such as when the session started and when it ended, contact information about the artist, the rate or balance charged for the project, track listings of the songs with the tempo and bit rate etc etc....

thats the way i do it ...
 
I keep regular track sheets (sourc, mic, preamp, plus notes) and also keep a kind of studio diary. I have records going back 15 years.
 
I never note down settings. I'll note the date a session took place, what instrument or vocal went down and which track it's on and what bouncing may have been done and these days in digitalia, whether or not it's been backed up. But it's generally a fresh canvas each time for me.
 
I don't keep track of nothin except my beer fridge. :drunk:

I started to write shit down, kept a notebook with footnotes and everything and lost the notebook. :mad:

:p

So screw it. I just track it how it sounds best and let er ride. Most times, my stuff now sounds better than my stuff then so I just maintain my fridge.
:D
 
Start with a well planned out sheet of paper and a pencil. Proceed until you have a mess of scribbles, scratchouts, half-sentences that made sense at the time, odd strings of numbers or knob diagrams and so on, start over for the next track.
 
Three years or so ago I constructed a brilliant, easy to use & functional tracking sheet that I keep as a template on the desktop so I can open it & leave it open to put details into on the run.
I even added colour co-ordination so I wouldn't need to read too much.
I gave it a test run - it worked brilliantly - easy to add notes, change settings, mix variations etc.
I haven't used it since. It's still on the desk top though.
 
tvolhein said:
I am in the process of re-mixing some old songs and don't have records for how each track was set up.
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Then you'll have to use your current judgement and start from a blank canvas. If you're remixing, this can actually be to your advantage.
 
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