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Friday & saturday

So I booked the PRSF studio on friday but since i only had 45 minutes worth of booking credits left it was kinda a letdown because I was stupid enough not to have a pre-prepared logic project with the stems I wanted to mix on it. Basically I had to import all the stems from my usb into logic and that took a long time...
The good thing is I listened to mix 1 version of the track and wrote down a lot of stuff that I needed to focus on and now I know that before I go into a studio I have to make a list with my goals that I want to reach and the preparations I have to make beforehand so I can make the best use out of the time I have and be efficient.
I guess that was one of those learning by doing experiences..
Today I pretty much finished 2 songs and emailed one of them to the manager of a rapper with whom I have previousely worked with.
The other song is a colaboration with some great friends of mine: Tom (drummer, Nick (vocalist+guitar player) and Andrew (bass+guitar player) .
It was and is super fun collaborating with them and I still need to record the vocals of Nick and some drums with Tom so the track isn't completely finished yet but it's almost there.
I also prepared for the studio session with Tom tomorrow. We are gonna record some drums and hopefully it will sound good! I wrote a plan of the things I want to do, when we will do what (for example: 1. Get the mics and cables, 2. Mic up the drum, ........, 5. Record some drum fills in the bpm's: 80, 140, 170, etc.) so I hope I'm gonna be prepared enough but we shall see...

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