This is not your average checklist.

The Luceris Recording Cheat Sheet – Composer Edition is a hard-earned survival kit packed with real-life tips to keep your recording session from imploding. Designed by composer and educator Liz Luceris, this clean 2-page PDF gives you the essentials:

✔ Must-do checks for score, parts, layout, DAW, and click prep

✴ DO-OR-DIE items flagged (ignore them at your own peril)

😼 Real-world sass, straight from the studio trenches

🧸 your safe blanket before a session: when you’re tired, the clock is loud, and one avoidable mistake can derail rehearsal, recording, and morale.

Whether you’re booking your first string quartet or wrangling a 50-piece orchestra, this cheat sheet keeps your head on straight and your players on your side.

What it covers

• Score prep: bar numbers placement, rehearsal marks, meter/tempo readability

• Parts logic: doublers, divisi, horns, page turns, layout sanity

• Printing sanity: stands, paper/backup considerations

• Percussion & harp reality checks

• A final reminder that matters more than any trick

🎁 PDF download. No fluff. Just the things that matter.

Includes A4 + US Letter.

Designed with wholehearted care by Liz & Caelum Luceris.

For composers who give a damn.