I finally figured out what makes for a successful tracking session: simply eliminate the variables.On one level this could be seen as pre-production combined with concise decision making. Certainly those can help - but what I'm talking about is conquering the technical end of the recording process so that everything stays on track and songs get recorded. I've attempted to catalog a list of the simple ways I implement this regime, so here we go:

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