<p>After 15 hours of recording, we are finally done!!!! Here is my question, after much soul searching, we decided to put in the extra time and make the CDs all uneditted. The recording studio we used has offered to give us a letter stating that they have not been editted/enhanced etc. Should we send this letter, or is it just one more piece of paper?
Do we just assume that by virtue of the fact that there are mistakes, they'll know they haven't been touched?</p>
<p>Unless the person receiving such a letter already knows and respects the work of the person providing it, I doubt that it would be worth very much. An applicant who has done unauthorized editing could easily counterfeit that kind of statement. Even if the recording studio itself did not do any editing, anyone with access to the original session recordings could edit them before sending them to the school.</p>
<p>Some schools have the applicant sign a statement to the effect that their recordings were not edited or enhanced and that they are the one playing or singing on the recording. Others require video recordings made with a single camera because it is much harder to edit things undetectably in that format. Still others state their policy and assume that any recordings they receive were fairly made unless they notice something obvious when listening.</p>
<p>As a starting point, you should provide exactly what each school requests. If you wish to provide any extras that you think may help your application, I recommend that you first contact someone in admissions at each school to see if they want it.</p>
<p>As a side note is it not ok to have a DVD that isn’t just straight through? I am sending a final DVD audition for Jacobs school of Music and I planned on just recording it straight through but I had a lot of technical problems and wasn’t able to do that…so i’m just adding transitions to make it flow better, is it a big deal if it’s not straight through?</p>
<p>Normally a DVD with several movements will NOT be “straight through.”</p>
<p>Each individual movement should be without edits or splices (i.e. should be “straight through”). In other words, each movement on the DVD should be the best take of that entire movement rather than an amalgamation of the best parts of several takes. </p>
<p>There normally would be breaks between movements, so separate movements or pieces do not need to be recorded consecutively without a break (unless the school specifies otherwise, but I have never seen such a specification).</p>
<p>What do you mean by “adding transitions to make it flow better”? I don’t understand what a transition could be in this situation apart from the normal few seconds of silence between different movements or pieces.</p>
<p>My focus is jazz guitar and I recorded three pieces, each individual piece is straight through with no editing. And the Transitions I mean like fading in/fading out, simple things in imovie to make it look aesthetically better than just jumping to the next song. Overall each song is just the best take that I had but I wanted to make sure that I didn’t have to record all of my songs without stopping</p>
<p>I wouldn’t do anything with fade-in. Just make it a straightforward audition CD, no aesthetic embellishments. Maybe a title, but nothing flash.</p>