Reeka
25-02-2008, 20:26
So, kids. We have plenty of tech-savvy people here. I'm sure someone will be able to appreciate this.
Midnight last night I went in to second engineer a recording project a friend was doing. We were in the recording studio, and there were three musicians (guitar/vocals, drums, bass) who played well together. My job as second engineer was pretty much to do whatever my friend and her partner asked me to. (We were both doing assignments for separate classes.)
I sit around and do what's asked of me (which is mostly running cable.. though not much since they had a fun time figuring out microphone placement for the drum kit), and then after they figure out how to get everything mic'd just right and how to get the sounds they want at about 3:00 AM, we start recording. (I say "we" loosely- my job as directed by my assignment was to just do whatever they needed.)
The night goes on, I observe and (during a smoke break for the drummer) bang on the tom's so we can set the mic's again. Done smoking, everyone goes back to recording.
6:30AM rolls around. We're finished with the track we intended to record. Next? Well, for fun the guys want to record a track of them just jamming. So the two primary engineers save their project (which has 145 associated audio files) twice, to two separate hard drives. They open up a new project, record a little (which didn't get captured, but whatever), and then we start to tear down.
I'm in the studio wrapping up mic cables and the drummer walks in from the control room.... the tracks are gone. All gone. That session that started at midnight? All evidence of it had been LOST. Until 7:40 we were there trying to figure out how to recover the audio, but it seems all is lost.
I go to my 9:10 AM class (with no sleep), take a test. A friend in their says "Oh, it may have been their disk allocation." I shrug because we've never had such issues, but we don't do massive projects. I go to my 10:20 class.. and my teacher explains what went wrong. (and then I take another test.)
Yeah, so after an insanely long session that resulted in no sleep, my friend has nothing to show. She lost 145 audio files in one fell swoop... and it was possibly because of a dumb (but understandable) error her partner made when he choose where to save it to.
That is epic fail that will piss you off after a sleepless night.
Midnight last night I went in to second engineer a recording project a friend was doing. We were in the recording studio, and there were three musicians (guitar/vocals, drums, bass) who played well together. My job as second engineer was pretty much to do whatever my friend and her partner asked me to. (We were both doing assignments for separate classes.)
I sit around and do what's asked of me (which is mostly running cable.. though not much since they had a fun time figuring out microphone placement for the drum kit), and then after they figure out how to get everything mic'd just right and how to get the sounds they want at about 3:00 AM, we start recording. (I say "we" loosely- my job as directed by my assignment was to just do whatever they needed.)
The night goes on, I observe and (during a smoke break for the drummer) bang on the tom's so we can set the mic's again. Done smoking, everyone goes back to recording.
6:30AM rolls around. We're finished with the track we intended to record. Next? Well, for fun the guys want to record a track of them just jamming. So the two primary engineers save their project (which has 145 associated audio files) twice, to two separate hard drives. They open up a new project, record a little (which didn't get captured, but whatever), and then we start to tear down.
I'm in the studio wrapping up mic cables and the drummer walks in from the control room.... the tracks are gone. All gone. That session that started at midnight? All evidence of it had been LOST. Until 7:40 we were there trying to figure out how to recover the audio, but it seems all is lost.
I go to my 9:10 AM class (with no sleep), take a test. A friend in their says "Oh, it may have been their disk allocation." I shrug because we've never had such issues, but we don't do massive projects. I go to my 10:20 class.. and my teacher explains what went wrong. (and then I take another test.)
Yeah, so after an insanely long session that resulted in no sleep, my friend has nothing to show. She lost 145 audio files in one fell swoop... and it was possibly because of a dumb (but understandable) error her partner made when he choose where to save it to.
That is epic fail that will piss you off after a sleepless night.