How to stop band from sharing unfinished rough mixes?

[Lt. Bob]

Pat them down. They might be wired.

...... on meth?

[dreib]

Give em all the copies they want just leave their instrument off the rough mix, or vocals, Ive done both.

[bouldersoundguy]

Chop off a few seconds at the beginning or end. Put a 1k/1s tone here and there in the mix.

[moresound]

A three stooges eye poke while yelling mutton head works for me every time.

[VomitHatSteve]

Give em all the copies they want just leave their instrument off the rough mix, or vocals, Ive done both.

That's clever! Combat stupid egotism with stupid egotism! If they're instrument is missing, they will intuitively understand that the song isn't finished and be less inclined to share it!

[Massive Master]

Voxengo makes a VST plug that puts random beeps/noises on a mix while rendering.

That said -- If they're all paid up, it's really their's to do what they want.

THAT said, EVERYONE is going to ask what those "beeps" are - Which sort of forces them to explain that they're not finished mixes. Everyone wins.

[Mo Facta]

On the flip side, you could work towards making it sound good from the get-go. That is what I aim for. If I'm not getting the sound I want to hear later on, what the hell am I doing?

Mixing is over rated. Get the sound now and give them what they want.

That's what they're paying you for.

Cheers

[Fuccess]

if the songs were any good people wouldn't comment on the mix. so you are an eye opener really.

[McMajik]

Only had this problem once or twice, but it usually goes something like:

"Hey, can we get some rough mixes?"
"Nope."

Simple

[RawDepth]

Thanks, everyone. Some good ideas here. (Maybe I'll make the rough mixes really, really horrible sounding so the band won't want to let their friends listen.)

I'll probably end up just giving them excerpts instead of whole songs. That might work too.