How do you go about recording your covers, why don’t you upload more frequently?

 I record my covers at the church I go to (The Student Church of Bloemfontein, South Africa). Seeing as I have to set everything up and pack everything up when I’m done, recording the covers takes about 6 or so hours of setting up and getting the audio mix right, aligning the cameras, getting the lighting right (desk lights, they work like a charm) and eventually recording the covers and packing everything up again. As some of you know, each video (from the Tri-Cam Series onwards, thus excluding the Overhead Series) consists of MULTIPLE takes :) I get a playlist of songs I like, songs I would LIKE to cover and songs I can connect to and jam with, with a total length not exceeding 30 minutes. I then que these tracks, back to back and TWICE so that the play time is just under an hour (seeing as I record the covers as one set on one hour DV tapes) I then play through each song once just to get the feel and structure down. After that I start the cameras, start recording onto my PC, and then I play for an hour straight, just improvising as I go along. In the editing and post-production process I choose the best parts from both takes of each song and compile the final version you eventually see on YouTube. 

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