Recorded Audition Vs Live Audition

ScreenName48105
Mon, 23 Nov 2015 20:33:20 +0000

So, do you have a budget of any kind for prescreens and auditions? If you have some, one suggestion I’d make is to research professional recording studios in your area for recording your auditions. We used one for prescreens and were really surprised how reasonable their rates are considering all the equipment involved and the quality of the end-product. We live in a college town with a good music school (a good place to look for one), and the studio rates are well under $100 per hour. It took us 4 hours to record 7-8 jazz pieces with a quartet, totally unrehearsed. With just one accompanist and well-rehearsed, I think you could be much more efficient. For instance, they did multiple takes of one song just to get it down under the 4-minute max time stipulated by one of the schools. The audio quality is superb. If I only had a few hundred dollars to put toward the audition process, this would get serious consideration from me.