haha same here.
takes my mind off the fact that I had a decent mix and the band made me ruin it (bassguit way too loud etc...).
Haha!
I think every band in the world should take a course, in which they get to spend one week here, not posting anything, just reading through all the stickied threads about mixes, guitars and all that. This would teach them that the studio engineer knows what he is doing (well he SHOULD know what he is doing) and that they should just shut the fuck up when the engineer tries to save their production quality by for example lowering the bass etc.
When I was 15-16, I recorded my first demo in a studio that was owned by the place we were rehearsing at. It was a good studio with great gear and the engineer was also good, but I remember how me and whole my band were acting like we knew everything and we wanted slight adjustments in the treble here and there, the bass here and there and yada yada. I'm 100% sure that if he had just turned up an EQ that was on bypass mode, we would still think it affected the sound and then go "alright, now it sounds great!"
I remember when I wanted him to raise the volume of some tom thing I was playing where I was hitting the toms once per bar (it was actually a pretty cool riff!), and the poor guy had to do it just to satisfy us. If that happened again today, I would just fucking re-record it and hit the toms like I mean it!
Had to link the riff... old memories... crap sound...
It's HERE. The second riff after the silence has nothing to do with the tom things, I just included it because I realize now how fucking awesome it is! I'm not in to that opeth style at all anymore but damn... it's powerful.
Edit: I was more like 18 at that time... damn I sucked so hard on drums, I hope I hit stuff more like I actually mean it these days!