It feels like we've all been in a cold, dark, chilling era for the past 18 months and I hope we get out of it soon. I spent most of 2020 and half of 2021 working unattended in the studio, only doing a few select attended (masked up) tracking sessions last year. Thankfully, I'd been building up a steady "remote mixing" career and clientele for well over 15 years (especially once we could easily transfer files online), and that – along with freelance and staff sessions, virtual recording workshops, and careful budgeting – managed to keep Jackpot! Recording Studio financially afloat for a year and a half.
Coming out of this time, it's been life-affirming to do actual attended sessions once again. Like John mentions in his End Rant this issue, collaborating with others in real time, face-to-face, is something I also find rewarding, and a process one is unable to completely achieve while working remotely.
