Good Habits After Recording Sessions

Back up all files immediately 😉

To save time and make sure things always sound good, it’s good to keep your studio in a state of readiness to record, which means finding all the settings that work well and then not changing those settings unless you have to. On the fly during some sessions, however, you may need to adjust various settings to optimize the sound and levels, etc., so that by the end of the session some of your settings are quite different. After these types of sessions, it’s a good practice to return all these settings to their original positions. Same goes for any unique hardware setups like extra microphones you had to setup or iPads for sound clips, etc.

Also, one thing I do immediately after recording sessions, while the sound of each participant is still fresh in my mind, is process each track using iZotope RX7 to clean them up and level them, etc.

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