Sorting out the good stuff

[Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com>]

A few days back I think, someone mentioned that they play a ton and
then go back and sort out the good stuff from all the hours of sound
to make an album (or something to that effect).  I was wondering how
they managed to do that (sorry, can't remember who said that or when
exactly).

I've got hundreds of hours of looped recordings, some an hour or more
single take.  And there are some truly amazing spots in there.  And
there are some VERY rough spots as well, things that embarrass me me
when I say I'm a guitarist rough.  But I find, I have a really hard
time excising the 'good' bits from the flow of things because the
rough spots seem somehow necessary to explain the good bits.  Or
finding when exactly to come in to the good stuff.  Edit too soon and
it seems kind of lost and aimless, edit too late and you wonder that
anyone would ever listen past the first minute of nonsense.

So I'm just wondering, for all the people who do the play and play and
play and grab the good bits later, how do you decide?  Do you have a
strategy or plan in place before you listen?

Just curious and not at all sure its really a serious question or just
rhetorical but I will throw it out anyway.

Kevin

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