Purpose

Making sounds against the silence.

Principles

• The artist is correct.
• Respect the road not taken.
• Modularity.
• Mobility.
• Speed is life.
• HOTAS.
• See everything, touch everything.
• “The best you can do between now and Tuesday is still a kind of best you can do.” (Charles Eames in Industrial Design, October 1957)

Practices

• Track clean.
• Save/Print to easy to read format.
• Use filename conventions. (Song-Album-Engineer-YYYYMMDD)
  • Use underscores for spaces. (e.g.
  • Append start working date as "-YYYYMMDD."
  • Capitalize in sentence case.
• Cite sources.
• Set your field of play. Remove unneeded items.
• Only consider choices that affect the final product. Others should be ignored or randomized.
• Preset many options with standards. Make the choice once.
• Forge complete chains. Keep them to only essentials.
• Look it up. Do not guess.
• Yes. No. I don't know.
• Always be Knolling. (Bullet II from Tom Sach's Ten Bullets)
• Keep a list. (Bullet III from Tom Sach's Ten Bullets)
• Keep all projects in score order.
• A tool is worth purchasing or keeping if:
  • It allows you to work faster.
  • It inspires a better performance.
  • It gives you new capabilities.
  • It gets you hired.
  • It makes the final project appreciably better.