The past few weekends have been very busy for me.  It started with a small pub gig where I provided a small pa for a friends band closely followed by the four days that is "Leathered in Lincoln".  No no no no..  Not that sort of leather Craigb (ITYRN).  Our annual bike club rally...  So that's another three bands..
 
It all went swimmingly, except without the rain... beautiful hot weather.  The issue I have is ...  I recorded them all. I told them I was recording. They all want copies. But how do I get it to them?
 
I'd initially said I'd run off a CD. But two of the bands played way longer than the length of an audio CD.  I could MP3 the tracks onto CD but I don't know if they have the gear to read them..  (or it would at least limit them to playing it on their computer..) or I could upload the tracks to a sharing site.... 
 
or I could cut out tracks so it fits on a CD..  but which ones?  How do you decide which tracks to cut in someone else's set list?  Cut the bad ones so it sounds great?  Or leave the bad ones in so they can learn what they did wrong?
 
Should I just dump the whole lot to soundcloud (or similar)?
 
 
 
K

Seems like the best decision would be to ask them. Myself, I wouldn't start making a decision on what I think is bad and could be dropped. Put it on 2-CDs or a BR-disk. Avoid MP3 at this stage. Make it the best source resolution you can.

Buy up all the Wham CD's you can and put their labels on them. 

It's important to realise that I was simply doing FOH and the recording part was incidental.   It's a full multi-track recording from my digital desk that I'm mixing down (in Sonar X3, from Cakewalk by Gibson) just like any other session.
 
I disallowed one of the band members from plugging his PDR into the tape out on the desk, knowing how crap it would sound.  I told him not to worry as I was recording it anyway and he could have a copy...
 
When I say "bad", I'm talking in a professional capacity as an engineer and producer, not subjective as an audience member...  Some of the playing in certain bands was embarrassing. Bad timing, not knowing the song structure, coming in at the wrong place, ending at the wrong time, messing up solos, general amateurism.  The sort of stuff that a good manager would turn to them and say "What the F&^% were you doing?"
 
Do I cut it to make them sound good?  Or leave it in for them to learn from?

Out takes CD?

bapu
Out takes CD?

Did you not read the thread?  There's to much for a CD... 

I meant make a CD or the gud sctuff and an out takes CD of the really bad schtuff.
 
If it's all bad, I got nothing.

 
 
It's a good idea,  but if I'm going to give them two CD's  (the good and the bad) I may as well just give them a 2 CD set of the whole lot (the ugly).

I say let 'em hear it for what it is. 
 
as you said - this is incidental, you are NOT being paid to be a producer or engineer.
 
give 'em what they played. 
 
as far as how much they get, I would probably just put everything on 2 CD's.  soundcloud and other streaming services are going to be 128k, which will make things worse, unless you have a pro account, then you can upload wave files, but why pay for a pro account for them if you're not being paid?

Ok,  thanks guys.  It looks like I'll be producing a double album or two..
 
 
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