I don't know if it's the right section to post this to or not... It's not offtopic this is really related to working in a studio and not being fucked up.
Anyway guys, lately bands are taking an advantage over my way of being: a very down to earth guy who wants the band to be relaxed not stressed.
I hate stressing people... I hate when they do it to me.
But I can say I'm a workhorse ... I work 8 to 10 hours a day (dayjob) and when it is time for night sessions I never say to anyone the session would be postponed because I'm tired.
Maybe happened once or twice a year but for the rest I was always available....
I face problems like bands taking too long to record (I don't blame totally them people have day jobs as me) maybe 1 particular month they come 2 times a week then they take one month off and so on...
This leads to a lot of them paying me always late...
Fortunately I always dealt with people who paid me (soon or later), and I had the pleasure to work with people that want a finished product in the right amount of time considering the fact we all have day jobs.
So it's not always really that bad, but you know we are not Andy Sneap and we don't work with "musicians" always.
But lately I'm so sick so I need a good way to stop giving them finished stuff.
In the past, protools 7/8, I always used beepers (voxengo beeper with a rtas to vst wrapper) with people I didn't know personally ... in the end I was starting out and didn't know all these people.
By now word of mouth worked great and I always dealt with people who are friends of this or that band so I ditched the use of beepers. you think you may trust them because they're "friends" ... so wrong.
I was thinking about a "beeper", maybe there are better solutions to that.
(I personally hate beepers... but if it's needed....)
Any other idea??? If you think a beeper is the only way to go, consider I work only in PT aax.
I think this is the only solution with some people.
Anyway guys, lately bands are taking an advantage over my way of being: a very down to earth guy who wants the band to be relaxed not stressed.
I hate stressing people... I hate when they do it to me.
But I can say I'm a workhorse ... I work 8 to 10 hours a day (dayjob) and when it is time for night sessions I never say to anyone the session would be postponed because I'm tired.
Maybe happened once or twice a year but for the rest I was always available....
I face problems like bands taking too long to record (I don't blame totally them people have day jobs as me) maybe 1 particular month they come 2 times a week then they take one month off and so on...
This leads to a lot of them paying me always late...
Fortunately I always dealt with people who paid me (soon or later), and I had the pleasure to work with people that want a finished product in the right amount of time considering the fact we all have day jobs.
So it's not always really that bad, but you know we are not Andy Sneap and we don't work with "musicians" always.
But lately I'm so sick so I need a good way to stop giving them finished stuff.
In the past, protools 7/8, I always used beepers (voxengo beeper with a rtas to vst wrapper) with people I didn't know personally ... in the end I was starting out and didn't know all these people.
By now word of mouth worked great and I always dealt with people who are friends of this or that band so I ditched the use of beepers. you think you may trust them because they're "friends" ... so wrong.
I was thinking about a "beeper", maybe there are better solutions to that.
(I personally hate beepers... but if it's needed....)
Any other idea??? If you think a beeper is the only way to go, consider I work only in PT aax.
I think this is the only solution with some people.