A tad off topic question for Andy.

[DIOBOLIC5150]

Hey Andy,
What was your single most worst experience in the studio? Any funny stories? Ever fried expensive equipment on accident or anything? Just a curious fan looking for a laugh.

 

[Andy Sneap]

spilt coffee into an Amek Mozart desk whilst trying to do a Darth Vader impersonation down the talk back mic once!

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

hahahaha, that was pretty silly.

On the subject of funny things, my cat did a silly.

She was laying on the sofa, I called out to her and she rolled over to look at me, forgetting she was right near the edge, rolled right off and landed her feet then sat there looking dazed and wondering what happened haha.

 

[DIOBOLIC5150]

spilt coffee into an Amek Mozart desk whilst trying to do a Darth Vader impersonation down the talk back mic once!

"luke..I am yo... AH FUCK!" Thats a good one.

I accidentally stuck the headstock of a vintage Les Paul into the ceiling fan, sending a tuning peg flying across the room and puncturing the grill cloth of a "mint condition" 4x12 cab. the damage was not repairable.

 

[Impy]

Haahaha good one

 

[egan.]

Jesus that amek shit is nuts...my worst studio experience(s) are way more mundane:
"Didn't we think this sounded good yesterday? Fuck."

 

[Exsanguis]

Not exactly a mistake in the studio, but it has to do with gear, so it works. I had to rent a bunch of gear for recording and live sound for a band a few years ago. The rental company accidentally sent me all the wrong stuff, including a very small 4 channel mixer instead of a large 8 bus one, an ART tube preamp instead of a focusrite green preamp, and about another 100 similar gear messups(we rented a lot of gear). Everything but the cables and a few mics was wrong. As we were to have the first gig the following day, I tore apart my studio, grabbing every useful piece of gear that I could find, including a very nice old mixer and several racks of nice gear, and loaded it all onto the truck. A month later when we came back from the tour(it was successful, by the way), the correct gear arrived at my door about an hour after i got home. Needless to say, I never rented gear from that company again.

 

[Lopes]

Didn't happen to me, but I still felt really bad for the guy. I had gone through the recording program at a community college, and a friend of mine decided to do the same after I told him how much I learned. So, he asked me to help him mix his final project and I agreed.

The whole week before he kept telling me how unbelievable this band played when he recorded them and how great it sounded, and blah blah blah. I get there and sit down behind the board, he hits play on the ADATs and I start bringing up the faders and there is not only no sound, but there is no signal. After about 20 minutes of trying to find the problem I ask him to tell me his whole process of the recording session. Everything he did was right and I was stumped, so I jokingly said "Maybe you forgot to hit record," and his face turned white and I knew that was what he forgot.

 

[2dark]

whoa - coffee over an Amek desk ..... that would give me a serious heart attack (our the people at the insurance company ;-) ).

When I started tracking guitars for a demo tape couple years ago I forgot to switch
the impedance switch on my Marshall 25/50 Jubilee Series to 8 Ohm, since at that time I just had a half stack, but we recorded with a rented second 4x12 box.
So my amp still was on 16 ohm but the overall impedance from both speakers where 8 ohms.
Almost half an hour and some takes later I saw my band mates and the engineer waving at me and yelling though the headphones that I should turn around because
something started smoking in the iso booth. So I turned and saw smoke coming out of precious amp.
To my luck my amp was alright and after a few "dude-that-scared-the-fuck-out-off my" beers the recording went on.

 

[Hammer Bart]

"luke..I am yo... AH FUCK!" Thats a good one.

I accidentally stuck the headstock of a vintage Les Paul into the ceiling fan, sending a tuning peg flying across the room and puncturing the grill cloth of a "mint condition" 4x12 cab. the damage was not repairable.

If Andy sticked to the scene it should have sounded like this:
"Kshhhhh Luke I am your father... NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

Your tuning peg incident is pretty bizarre too though.

 

[SickBoy]

When I started tracking guitars for a demo tape couple years ago I forgot to switch
the impedance switch on my Marshall 25/50 Jubilee Series to 8 Ohm, since at that time I just had a half stack, but we recorded with a rented second 4x12 box.
So my amp still was on 16 ohm but the overall impedance from both speakers where 8 ohms.
Almost half an hour and some takes later I saw my band mates and the engineer waving at me and yelling though the headphones that I should turn around because something started smoking in the iso booth. So I turned and saw smoke coming out of precious amp.

So the impedance mismatch CAN get that bad... Good to know!

 

[egan.]

stumped, so I jokingly said "Maybe you forgot to hit record," and his face turned white and I knew that was what he forgot.

How could you forget to hit record every time? And go through a whole session with no playback? and no overdubs?

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

I think being a total doofus is necessary, and the band playing live.

 

[egan.]

I had 3 ADAT decks die in 2 weeks. Everytime I thouht I had bounced shit down enough I'd lose another deck....until they were all gone. hahaha. fucking adats.

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

I love hard drives. They love me. Its a good relationship.

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

Ok I'm going to die for telling you all this but its funny.

Mick Kenney was mixing down the tapes for the new anaal nathrakh and shall we say, he hit the "wrong button," byebye 3 weeks worth or recording. Also, I believe rage of achilles wanted the album delivered the next day too.

 

[Impy]

lol, you're so dead now

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

 

[Lopes]

How could you forget to hit record every time? And go through a whole session with no playback? and no overdubs?

I know the band that he was working with, a three piece instrumental jam band, and they just like to go rip through songs one right after another, so he only needed to hit record once.