A question for you guys that are really proficient with Pro Tools.
For the last year I've been working on an album with Zak and Jeff from Savatage/Trans Siberian Orchestra. Because we're scattered all over the country Zak had a hard drive in Tampa he did his vocal work on and I had a drive in Boston that I did all my solos/overdubs on. When the vocals were complete we got a copy of his drive shipped up to Boston and imported the vocal files into the main drive.
All the vocals imported perfectly with the exception of 3 songs. On those 3 songs, the engineer had to spend some extra time trying a few different approaches to get the vocals to import. In the end he was able to get everything imported, we checked to make sure all the vocal files were in place and then saved everything to the main drive and a backup drive.
I just came back from a 5 day mix session in CA and was shocked that on the 3 songs we had trouble importing vocals on, some of my guitar overdubs were missing. It seems those 3 songs reverted to previously saved versions of the sessions.
This is annoying because I was very happy with the work I had done and now I have to re-record those items. Plus, I have to pay for a mix recall (SSL G Series) and the whole project gets delayed, again!
My question is, have any of you heard of this before? The engineer is a pro with many major label credits, plus he's a college professor on Pro Tools, so I don't think it's user error. Something happened during the import of these songs. Before you say "that's easy, the engineer imported some of the old overdubs by mistake", that's impossible because there were no overdubs at all on the vocal drive, just basic rhythm tracks. So something during the import process caused the main drive to revert to previously saved versions of the sessions.
For the last year I've been working on an album with Zak and Jeff from Savatage/Trans Siberian Orchestra. Because we're scattered all over the country Zak had a hard drive in Tampa he did his vocal work on and I had a drive in Boston that I did all my solos/overdubs on. When the vocals were complete we got a copy of his drive shipped up to Boston and imported the vocal files into the main drive.
All the vocals imported perfectly with the exception of 3 songs. On those 3 songs, the engineer had to spend some extra time trying a few different approaches to get the vocals to import. In the end he was able to get everything imported, we checked to make sure all the vocal files were in place and then saved everything to the main drive and a backup drive.
I just came back from a 5 day mix session in CA and was shocked that on the 3 songs we had trouble importing vocals on, some of my guitar overdubs were missing. It seems those 3 songs reverted to previously saved versions of the sessions.
This is annoying because I was very happy with the work I had done and now I have to re-record those items. Plus, I have to pay for a mix recall (SSL G Series) and the whole project gets delayed, again!
My question is, have any of you heard of this before? The engineer is a pro with many major label credits, plus he's a college professor on Pro Tools, so I don't think it's user error. Something happened during the import of these songs. Before you say "that's easy, the engineer imported some of the old overdubs by mistake", that's impossible because there were no overdubs at all on the vocal drive, just basic rhythm tracks. So something during the import process caused the main drive to revert to previously saved versions of the sessions.
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