Hey there, im not sure if this is the right forum for these questions, if not i would appreciate if the mod redirect me. Much thanks for answers to the questions:

Q1: Im starting to acquire a lot of vinyl and i was wondering if anyone had any ways of organizing that was helpful to them, that i could try? Id love to be more organized.

Q2: When you are recording a mix for promotion, how many times do you screw up before you are happy with the final product?

thanks for your help

randy

well u could buy one of those cute udg bags.... as for how many times u fix a screwed up product for promotion? if ur talkin about handin out demos, and ur screwin up like that, ur not trying to make a demo. ur talkin about making a cd... 2 different things. besides the fact if ur screwing up and refixing things at home for demos, how would u plan on doing a set in front of people? u dont think the people that hire you arent gonna be like "ok somethings wrong here..." they mite think u jacked someone elses good demo, ne things possible i dunno. but good luck either way

minor mistakes add character- (im talking very very minor) and show its not done all on pro tools or something. You can ocassionally turn mistakes into good things tho- as long as its not a total buffalo stampede.
Besides, no demo is going to be over an hour or so (80 mins mas methinks as thats max for a cd) so it hardly takes long to redo it.

As for organising, each to their own- but my gigging stuff is boxed into seperate boxes according to style, house, trance, urban etc, and the rest of vinyl mountain is in random crap order in big piles.

for organizing, just go pick up some milk crates from walmart. i only have about 130 records but i have them separated by vocals and non vocals. or just have a crate for prog, one for tech, one for house, whatever.

as for recorded mixes. i have about a dozen or so recordings and most of them sound really good. except for one or two little screw ups. i will keep redoing them untill i think one of them is good enough to start handing out, untill then practice practice practice.

cool thank you everyone for your help!!