MUSINGS

Yesterday George and Ted spent the day doing sound editing for an hour long documentary film. I only had to take a few calls to help them get some tracks imported, other than that it seems things went smoothly.

By the time I got to the studio, at around 8:00, they were essentially done. The client seemed happy with their work, and it was a lot of work - 400 odd soundfiles on 13 tracks. That's a fair amount of audio.

DP stood up very well, I'm happy to say. No crashes, nothing lost, no problems. It kept chugging along for another 3 hours while I did a House of Blondes session (no, I didn't mix through the clock radio, but I did check the mix on our crappy little bookshelf speakers. John from House of Blondes was particularly fond of this part of the process, saying it "sounded like it was coming from the radio," which is part of the idea. Make it sound good on shitty speakers and it should sound good on good speakers, in theory.) There was one crash while I was doing some pretty intense editing, but I hesitate to even call it a crash. The audio fritzed out but I was able to save the project, quit DP, and have everything up and running before the client was back from the bathroom. OSX continues to impress.

So we were pretty solidly booked yesterday; real business from 10am to 11pm. It would be great to have this kind of thing going on every day, but we're working on it. Surprisingly, our Craigs List ad doesn't seem to be generating many inquiries - back when we were offering the "make your demo for $200" deal a few years ago these ads got us a lot of clients. Things are changing so quickly that already the market is substantially different than it was then, as more people are buying their own MBox and making their records at home.

But what fun is that?