Mix magazine has an intriguing interview with Gina Fant-Saez, who has written a number of popular articles for the O’Reilly Digital Media site. (Her controversial tutorial about setting up a laptop music production system, "The Ultimate Portable Studio," has been the #1 Google hit for "portable studio" for the last year.)
In the Mix interview, Gina shares more details about her eSession service, which enables top session players to sell overdubs online. Companies have been showing remote recording schemes to me for ten years, but this system seems to be especially well thought-out. We interviewed Gina about it ourselves back in 2004; it's great to see it finally taking off.
I've also started to read Gina's book Pro Tools for Musicians & Songwriters, edited by Jim Aikin, another O'Reilly contributor. Although I use Ableton Live, not Pro Tools, I picked up some useful tips within minutes of cracking the book. It's written in Gina's trademark conversational yet authoritative style. As Randy Alberts told me when pitching the original interview, Gina is "easily more savvy than most any person I've ever interviewed about Pro Tools," and he's interviewed dozens of heavyweights for Digidesign's own publications.
Online recording will surely keep evolving, but I'm delighted to be able to share Gina's expertise on our site now. Check out her articles and let us know what else you'd like to read about.
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@Ryan:
For a gospel choir, you might need to hire a contractor, but you can find backup singers at eSession, which now has hundreds of musicians in its database. I'd describe the service as remote recording with online interaction. For a detailed look at the process of producing a song on eSession, see The eSession Experience: Online Recording for All.
Is there an online recording network? Its been very haphazard searching for studios and musicians that offer online recording services. Are we officially calling it "online recording" or "remote recording"? I'm having trouble finding instruments other than drums. I'd like to more easily search and compare guitarists, strings, vocalists. Where can I find a gospel choir, or backup singers to do tracking in various styles?