Long distance collaboration

[dnitz]

A guitarist I played for in the past has moved to the west coast. He has purchased an m-box and is planning to record his next album with it. He's asked if I would be willing to play bass. If I purchase an m-box, how would we go about collaborating? I may also provide some vocals, but that probably isn't part of the equation.

[bigbubbaj]

Option 1 You can exchange session and audio over the web. be prepared for large files. You need a place to host and store everything, and you both need broadband.

Option 2 is to burn sessions to DVD and mail them.

Either way, its no problem once you guys both get up to speed.

READ THE MANUALS.

[dnitz]

Broadband is no problem. Could you recomend a site to store the files?

[spkguitar]

Most webhosts allow you FTP transfer, even if you don't use the website features. One of the ones I use, startlogic.com offers 5GB storage with 60GB of transfer per month for under $10 a month.

You can always use a free transfer service like YouSendIt.com but you're limited to 1GB as a file size (most times that won't be a problem).

[phobia]

If you want to get more 'serious' you could also try this out:

http://www.source-connect.com

Cheers,
// J

[Mike Glenn]

Download a free ftp server and set up an account for your collaborator. He will then be able to get the files directly off of your computer. google free ftp - http://www.serv-u.com/ is one

[bigbubbaj]

You could always pick up a digidelivery box