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| What are the two standards for booking sessions? |
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| Hourly Blocks of Time and Lockouts. |
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| How long are hourly blocks generally booked for? |
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| A situation where a client books a room for a lengthy amount of time preventing another client from using the room. Anywhere 3 days to 6 months is a normal time period |
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| What are some of the advantages to booking a lockout session? |
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| Artist can leave the studio and come back with the room how they left it. It generally costs less than a day rate or hourly blocks of time |
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| What is the most common method of payment for label sessions? |
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| When booking a cash session what does it take for it to be considered a hard booking? |
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| Half of the cost of the session up front |
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| What is considered when deciding which room to book a session in? |
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| The Amount of people in the room, the type of session being booked, How much equipment is needed, the style of music being produced |
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| Documentation that logs the takes within each voice |
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| Documentation that identifies the different parts of the song and the timecode that part starts at |
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| Documentation that maps the inputs and instruments that are assigned |
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| Who is the only member of the session that logs an invoice? |
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| What is the Assistant Engineers role in a Pre production session? |
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| Set up and breakdown. Occasionally changing tape or setting up another pro tools session |
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| What is the Assistant Engineers role in a Tracking session? |
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| Instrument set up, Microphone set up, documentation, making patches, etc. Most demanding session type for Assistants |
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| What is the Assistant Engineers role in a Overdub session? |
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| Same as tracking session on a smaller scale |
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| What is the Assistant Engineers role in a Vocal Overdub session? |
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| Labeling the desk and mic set up |
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| What is the Assistant Engineers role in a Mix session? |
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| Minor Equipment Set up and a bunch of time at the patch bay |
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| What is the Assistant Engineers role in a Recall session? |
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| Setting up the room referencing the recall pack |
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| When are technical difficulties the fault of the studio? |
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| When an equipment failure delays the session for more than 15 minutes (Downtime) |
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| When are technical difficulties the fault of the client? |
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| When the session start is delayed due to session materials not being delivered on time |
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| Taking the best takes of each part of the song and combining them into a composite track |
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| Mixing two or more seperate tracks on one track |
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| Define topping and tailing tape |
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| splicing leader tape to the begginning and end of the tape |
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| Media that can be easily copied. IE DATS and CD's |
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| What is the difference between a purchase order and an invoice? |
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| A purchase order promises the label will pay for a certain maximum amount of time and an invoice is the statement of how much time was actually used |
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| Adjustment of tape recorder electronics to recieve the best possible performance for the tape being used |
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| Recording timecode on the tape |
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| The end of the tape is the side hanging out when the tape is stored |
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| Stereo mix of the first reel is added to tracks one and two of the second reel |
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| When a tapew is cut in half to record a 48 track session |
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| Massaging the sound into a complete stereo image |
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| A mixdown with different edits or parameters than the final mix |
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| track 24 where the SMPTE is printed |
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| Track next to SMPTE track to prevent tape bleed into the SMPTE Track 23 |
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| Designated start time of a session |
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| When a session is delayed more than 15 minutes due to technical failure, the client is not charged for this time |
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| When information on Analog tape is transferred to adjacent tape |
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