The Communist Chinese Connection pt 6 of 11

[Fantômas]

This episode is only 27:23 long, compare to the previous eps which were ~ 1hr long. Is this intentional?

[logan9a]

I try to make them all an hour but sometimes stuff gets cut out due to dead air and stuff.

Here's how it works:

Let's say I record a 6 hour session.

Step one is to chop it up into one hour slices before editing. The reason I have to do this is to make it so that it is easier to work with. If I try to edit the big thing, it is unwieldy and tends to fuck up (and lose all the work) from time to time.

So now, I have six one hour pieces.

Let's say part way through the third one, everyone wandered off for a half hour. All that dead air gets cut. You now have a half hour session.

It's weird and I'd rather do it a different way but this way is the quickest and easiest. Professional sound people would probably edit everything out, then paste it all back together then recut. That would make all the sessions other than the end one much more even - but it is extra steps and time. Given that it already takes hours to edit, cut, do again for just audio files I'm OK with sometimes having a short session in there.