The end of recall sheets

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I bring Marylou Henner in to watch the session and just have her remember everything.

And, BTW, if you make sure the short people are flat-headed, you have a good place to set your coffee.

G.
 
Well, excuse me for not knowing anybody born after the cold war ended that has superior autobiographical memory. I didn't hear you complaining that all of Greg_Ls midgets were over 40.

G.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
Well, excuse me for not knowing anybody born after the cold war ended that has superior autobiographical memory. I didn't hear you complaining that all of Greg_Ls midgets were over 40.

G.
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you need 'em late on in age so the shrinkage has fully set in.... obviously :rolleyes:

:)
 
I don't take any notes but then all my sessions get mixed up. Makes for a really weird cowboy/punk/jazz type of out come I like to call it cowunkazz. :laughings:
 
nearly as good as my Friday night JazzDrunk fusion collabs :D
 
Kinda hard to send pencil-and-paper notes, or naked asian midgets to someone, via email...
 
stevieb said:
Kinda hard to send pencil-and-paper notes, or naked asian midgets to someone, via email...
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Something I've never needed to do. I have yet to find a duplicate studio to any of the ones that I worked in where entire session notes - or even any major portion of them - needed to be passed on to someone else in a different location than the studio containing the written notes.

And even if I did need to send them on to someone else, there's plenty of ways of doing that, including sending a scanned copy by e-mail or FAX.

G.
 
All the other nerds on my floor have iPads. I use a steno pad. :cool:
 
You drink sterno Diggy? Oops sorry read that wrong. what you need is cowunkazz.
It's the latest craze everyone here is talking about it.
 
I don't write down anything and I start all my projects from scratch. I've never found a need to take notes, etc....If I ever want to see what I did on a certain project, I just open that project and take a look.
 
RAMI said:
I don't write down anything and I start all my projects from scratch. I've never found a need to take notes, etc....If I ever want to see what I did on a certain project, I just open that project and take a look.
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That might work with DAWs...but not so much when tracking to tape and mixing OTB, which is where my note-taking SOP stems from.
But even with DAWs...you really can't "see" which mic you used, where it was positioned, how you set up a particular instrument or which instrument it was...unless you also write all that down somewhere in the DAW.
I have a bunch of guitars...I'm never going to remember which guitar I used on each specific track unless I write it down...either with DAWs or analog recording.

Is it absolutely important...?...naaaaa...but I think it helps to have some sort of "archive" of what you did, and somehow paper just seems to outlast computer data! :D

For each song I do...I have a lyric sheet, a chord structure sheet, a tracking sheet and finally a mixing sheet. I also write other things down along the margins, like which reel of tape it's on and starting SMPTE point, the BPM of the song and anything else I think I would want to remember.
I still have my notes from the late 70s when I was using a 4-track...!... :) ...and I have gone to them a few times to check on what I did for a particular song or sound.

It's just a studio SOP...and we all have our own that works for us.
 
hehehe I don't have the money for midgets myself. And on their twitter I read they are working on a cloud. A cloud beats messager midgets anyday.

Talking about twitter they say the app is free for downloading for couple of days, see how you like them midgets now? :P

Any tips for fitting my midgets in my backpocket?
 
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miroslav said:
That might work with DAWs...but not so much when tracking to tape and mixing OTB, which is where my note-taking SOP stems from.
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Well, I'm not toally in the ITB. I record to a stand alone and then only recently started importing and mixing in REAPER. Until a few months ago, I wasn't doing anything in the box.

But I'm not arguing with your method. I just like living dangerously. :D I don't keep track of where I placed mics, etc.... I start every project as if I'm recording for the first time and place, move and record things according to how I think they will work for the song I'm working on.

That's just the way I am. I'm not advocating this wreckless behavior. :eek:
 
Yeah...I do the same from song to song and just set up as needed. The notes are only used occasionally to "copy" some setup from another song. I didn't mean that they are always used as some "template".

I've done "note-less" recording...just going as-it-falls, recklessly... :D ...but there were a few times where I was pissed that I DIDN'T take some notes, 'cuz for the life of me I couldn't remember how I got some sound...??? :confused:
Not that I wanted to use the exact same sound again, but to use it more as a "gateway" to something new for the new song...but then, I didn't take notes.... :( :mad:
 
The Urban Dictionary said:
Wreckless: An idiot who puts all their hope and love into something or someone, when knowing the outcome is inevitable.
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Maybe he actually spelled it the right way ;).

G.
 
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