Recording tips
5 min read
How to prepare for your first studio session
Rehearse the songs, not the parts. Here is our checklist for the week before you come in.
The best sessions start a week before anyone arrives. Rehearse the songs until the arrangement is settled, then stop changing them. Change your strings two days before, not on the morning. Bring spare sticks and a tuner, and agree tempos as a band. Most of all, decide what you want the record to sound like. Bring three songs by other people that you love.
Written in the control room at Fernhill Sound, Bristol
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