At Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:13:16 Billy wrote:

>Im curious - what formats are todays pro digital recordings are stored and
>backed up on?
>
>CD-R, Zip discs, removable hard drives or some other format?

We've been using removable hard-drives. Which, I've got to tell you, is a 
royal pain in the ass. Especially if the sessions are more than 10 songs (a 
drive only holds about that many multi-track files).

We nearly lost the Kings last studio album because the studio where the 
album was being done needed their computer freed up for a follow-up session. 
We had blown every last dime on the recording process and hadn't budgeted 
for the additional hard-drives to save the material as back-up. The studio 
was going to erase the stuff.....or burn everything onto 465 separate 
CDR's....fortunately we were able to find someone with a hard drive we 
temporarily borrowed to save the sessions. Phew.


Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!!"
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/