@Adex Felicia I do my best to tell the story trusting that the work I’ve put into technique will pay off for that side.

@Adex Felicia I absolutely often feel emotion leads the performance. When listening to singers I have no problem with people slightly out of pitch or timing off if they are engaging me in the story and sound authentic. Indeed many of my favourite singers are not "great singers." So, if my technique gets a little off kilter I don't mind that if I've been lost in the story. If it's because I'm not thinking about the song because I'm distracted by something physical around me then it's a problem lol This is also probably why I don't like the majority of pop music. However I do love jazz singers and they often have great technique - but they often don't conform to singing on the beat or straying from "in key" notes.

Top down mixing

32 bit allows you to ignore gain staging

I usually play them at 1.5 so everyone looks like they are on 10 espressos by 9am.

I used to be a graphic designer and was building a 32 page monthly community magazine for a client. One month terror struck. As they walked into the office to approve the final layouts and I had the last two changes to make - my hard drive died. The deadline for going to print was two days away. Luckily I had most of the graphics backed up but the layout and a lot of the graphics were gone and all I had left was the laser printed proofs. 37 hours no sleep and minimal food but I got it finished and to the printer. If you’re making a New Year’s Resolution let it be “I will have a real time backup plan in place in the next two weeks. Best I’ve found is having Dropbox and having all my project files in the Dropbox folder. That’s where I did the work from. Plus I had a backup drive on my computer using TimeMachine (Mac) plus a NAS raid to backup to weekly.

I use Reaper for recording a friends projects but Logic Pro is where I do all the mixing mastering

@T Martin I’ve spent a lot of time watching his channel too