The all new Project Studio funny stories thread

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Me - It's $XX dollars an hour for recording in my studio.
Rapper - No problem man I'll pay you when we get famous.
 
Singer - "Why do you keep poking me with that pencil"

- see "pencil trick" for combating sibilence thread.... lol...
 
Where do I begin? There was the time when I was playing back some takes and the drummer leans forward, grabs the handle on the drive caddy on my HD24, pulls it out and says "what does this do?".
The there was the time the band wanted to lay on the studio floor in the dark a "commune with Bazoozus" before they started tracking.
My studio borders a State Park. One night a guy comes in to track some tunes but he wants to record a shotgun blast for an intro to one of his songs. I say "why not". So I set up a mic out the door and he lets go a round. It clipped hard so I reset level and tell him to do one more. So we now have the shotgun recorded. Like I said, the studio borders a State Park. Local kids like to go there and smoke dope at night. So we're in the studio about 45 minutes later and I start getting interference in the headphones that I instantly recognise as two way radio traffic LIKE THE COPS USE. My client and I look out the studio door and the cops have a bunch of teenagers who were partying all laying on the ground like a felony stop. I thought I was going to cough up a lung I was laughing so hard.
 
Me: Hey! What happened to my 60 year old bottle of scotch that I was saving for the anniversary party?

Band: All pointing to passed out guitar player behind the couch.
 
Me: Ok, you guys can start loading in now. The drummer should probably load his kit in first so I can start setting up mics.
Drummer: I needed to bring my drums??
 
Noooooooooooooooooooooo ..... It's $50. ----- an hour. :facepalm:
 
moresound said:
Vocalist;
This part needs a lot more reverb ........

Me;
Pretending to move the knob ..........

Vocalist;
Yeah that perfect!
Right there!
That's great!

I hate days like that.
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I used to work weekly on a Yamaha LS9-32 for live stuff, and if I had a show where I had someone who knew how to mix WAYYY better than me (sarcasm), I'd flip the board to layer 33-64 (completely unused, and it does NOTHING when not plugged in) and let the "real" sound engineer have his way - "Man turn up that kick!" - .....*pushes artificial kick fader up to +10 from unity*..... "Yeah man that's what I'm talkin about!!!". I know exactly how you feel. It's a pain in the ass.
 
Engineer - Okay good take, but lets record in omni now. Just move the switch on the mic to the symbol that looks like an "O"

Guitarist - Nahhhhhhh mannnnnnnnnnn, I ain't touching that mic. That thing's expensive...
 
Would that pop filter work for my rock album? If not where can I buy "Rock Filter"?
 
*drummer* "I have these joey jordison unbreakable drum sticks!"
*after about ten minutes of recording* "dammit i broke my stick!"

also....

A great 16 year old kid singer comes in to record his take for a pop punk band. His voice cracks on the high notes though after he tried hitting outside his range.
Singer says "Just wait, when puberty stops i'll be an awesome singer"
 
Lucky not my story:

Client: Have you get any spare time available in the studio?
Studio: We have Wednesday free.

Client turns up Wednesday and spends the whole day recording. End of the day:

Studio: That will be $### for the day thanks. :)
Client: Oh I thought that when you said you had spare time I thought it was spare time and for free!! :confused:
Studio :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:


Cheers
Alan.
 
witzendoz said:
Lucky not my story:

Client: Have you get any spare time available in the studio?
Studio: We have Wednesday free.

Client turns up Wednesday and spends the whole day recording. End of the day:

Studio: That will be $### for the day thanks. :)
Client: Oh I thought that when you said you had spare time I thought it was spare time and for free!! :confused:
Studio :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:


Cheers
Alan.
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yes, sometimes it's a laugh through tears...
I noticed in this ..business ...there's a lot of things interpreted as a 'spare' and/or 'free' :))
 
Carny1122 said:
I used to work weekly on a Yamaha LS9-32 for live stuff, and if I had a show where I had someone who knew how to mix WAYYY better than me (sarcasm), I'd flip the board to layer 33-64 (completely unused, and it does NOTHING when not plugged in) and let the "real" sound engineer have his way - "Man turn up that kick!" - .....*pushes artificial kick fader up to +10 from unity*..... "Yeah man that's what I'm talkin about!!!". I know exactly how you feel. It's a pain in the ass.
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Got that console as well! Great for doing just that.

Yeah every road manager is a FOH engineer. :laughings:
 
With the first band I played in, we were ready to record a demo. At rehearsal the night before our recording session, we wrote a brand new song to include on the demo. The plan was for us to record the music, while the singer read through the lyrics to himself. When he had gotten through the lyrics, he would give us a signal, and we would play a few more bars to fade out. As soon as the singer gives the signal, our drummer IMMEDIATELY stops playing. The singer had to rework his lyrics and we ended up with about two measures to do an extremely fast fade out.
Drummers :facepalm:
 
While helping a friend's punk rock band record a demo:

Guitarist: I bought this new distortion pedal on the way here. Help me get a cool distortion sound.
Me: [fiddling with the pedal and guitar a little bit] Your guitar is way out of tune.
Guitarist: It is? Go ahead and tune it for me, then.
:facepalm:
Guitarist: Oh, our singer has terrible timing. So he won't need headphones. We'll just point at him when it's time for him to start singing.
:facepalm: :facepalm:
 
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