Remote Collaboration

“Remote collaboration” fundamentally means participating in a recording in which all participants are not performing in the same location at the same time. Prior to the Internet and modern communication and file delivery techniques, this was a painstaking process, consisting of shipping heavy and expensive reel-to-reel tapes over long distances between professional studios, and communicating via phone and postal mail. Today, with the affordability of home recording, near-instant sharing of digital files over the Internet, and ready availability of video communication capabilities, remote collaboration is becoming commonplace. The technical specifics of each remote collaboration system vary, depending on the specific type of collaboration, software, and hardware combinations being used.