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Target date for CD release party is April! ...




Advice learned the hard way:

Keep that deadline date "etched in pencil" and keep the eraser handy.

Why?

The largest single factor we used to face when the only way to get a studio quality recording was to lease, rent, or otherwise procure pro studio time was the time itself. Far too many projects either didn't get finished, or suffered from the rush to finish in the time allotment that could be afforded. And many suffered from trying to compress time like that.

But now that you are recording at home and have the ability, with some time, learning and practice, to yield the same or better product that we once could only obtain by either hiring studio time or purchasing a studio ($$$), the one thing that you really have at your disposal is time itself. Use it.

Try to avoid setting a deadline that is basically an arbitrary pick, instead taking advantage of that one thing that home recording really brings us. If the project needs more time in order to pursue excellence, why not extend that deadline?

And you don't end up having to work under pressure to git-r-done, which in actuality can be heard in the finished product.

I do set dates, but I also try to keep 'em rather flexible, such that they are always open to the dynamics of the situation. If necessary, allow for a bit more time. No Producer(s) chafing at the bit, no investors crying for return on investment, likewise no "dog 'n pony show" checkpoints in which the investor(s) apply pressure, no studioguy informing you that you only have a few hours time left, etc. etc. etc.

I've heard far too many finished products that could have been much more finished, if not for the setting of an arbitrary deadline - in a home studio.


--Mac

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