
Sky Blue Lou
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Q: What do fat broads and mopeds have in common?
A: They're both fun to ride until someone sees you.
A: They're both fun to ride until someone sees you.
Shailat said:Am I the only person who thinks that those sessions are the furthest away from being professional !?!?......
Having been part of the market from both sides Engineering and producing I find the whole thread extremly entertaining but NOTHING like the real life I have ever encountered.
I have yet to meet a top end producer so impotent like Willy...perhaps there are some around...I have never meet someone who sits in the producer chair (as a big name producer) and when hearing badly played percussion become speechless and answer with a "uhhh...."
I have never been on a session were the engineer walks in and just records who ever seems to be standing in the booth at the moment as thousands of $'s go down the drain. That is irresponsible at the least !!!. I cant think of a single engineer I know let things come to what they are. I say with 100% conviction that almost every engineer I know would quit by now or put his foot down with the producer and ask for set rules to work with.
Which record company lets a band come in and decide for themself (as the story goes, it seems each member decides what he wants to do for the day by himself....?!?!?!?) and let this gone on for weeks ?!?!?
I have yet to see such a session were somebody else was footing the bill (beside the band) and yet see a engineer let things roll the way they are and the producer let the recordings be so uncontrollable.
If I was the engineer or producer I would be expected to be fired.
Or in worry of my name being tarnished.
My guess is that this is all a nice fantasy. Entertaning well written but If I had to choose an engineer for a very serious project, Mixerman would not be my first choice no matter how good he can be becuase (if all this story is real) responsible he isn't. Money or no money...I would have quit myself in order to save my reputation.
chessrock said:Sometimes working on a guttural basis and not over-thinking every decision is a very effective way of recording. It’s actually my most preferred way of recording. Unfortunately it’s the least used method of recording these days.
JuSumPilgrim said:That only happens at a certain point in your career. Not often in the first few years. Its when acoustic concepts become merged with the gear you use which becomes an extension of your hand and all in unity with the inpired performance youre recording.
chessrock said:
I know you're probably half tongue-in-cheeck with that one . . . but I think it's really what happnes when you say "F _ _ _ the acoustic concepts, the gear, my hand, the inpired performance and everything else I've been taught to obsess over. Just point the damn mics until it sounds good, hit record and hope for the best.![]()
So come on, now; would you bail?
chessrock said:
So come on, now; would you bail?
JuSumPilgrim said:You?
chessrock said:So come on, now; would you bail?
Shailat said:
Maybe in L.A. things are run differently.
Son of Mixerman said:Its hard to work in an environment where people can be so vindictive for ego sake, its truely a survival of the fittest if your working any where LA, NYC or any other hotbed of industry activity.