I had waited an entire year for this past weekend. It was my first opportunity to produce in a big time studio. The band is called Elevenpoint. We had been writing songs for the past year and finally finished the arrangements on the 11 best songs. It was time to head up to Music Creek Studios in St. Louis. I was extremely excited about the project, but I had one issue. How in the hell am I going to get these files?

Plenty Of Hard Drive Options

I can get a little excessive compulsive from time to time about random issues. Well, backing up these files and making sure that when I got home, I'd have the tracks I needed was just another example of this. To the studio I brought my desktop PC which contains two different internal drives, I brought an external USB 2.0 drive, a brand new unformatted internal drive, DVD-Rs, and DVD-RWs.

Relax. Mac To PC Conversion Isn't That Bad

I was worried that there would be a million problems with this or that and we would be stuck without the tracks. I did plenty of research but got plenty of answers. Actually, a little too many answers that ended up being totally confusing to say the least.

How We Moved .Wav Files From Mac To PC

It turns out that all we had to do was burn a data DVD. Apparently, data DVD discs work in both Mac or PC. So from there it was just an issue of getting the files from the data DVD disc. To further complicate things, I brought my PC which does not contain a DVD drive (the only PC I have without a DVD drive). So we had to dump the wave files onto the studio dudes laptop, put my brand new hard drive in his external hard drive enclosure, and then dump the files onto that. I then put the files onto both drives of my Desktop, my external drive, and then took the hard drive out of his external drive. It appears that I have the files on 4 different hard drives and a DVD.