The-Zeronaut
Mixing..Y U SO DIFFICULT?
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If you could pick and choose your own work...
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CatharsisStudios
trcksngsrpbngs
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Fox Mulder
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I worked with some ghetto pothead mexicans in a death metal band, they just didn't give a shit about anything. The guitar player was AWFUL at keeping time as well. Here's some memorable quotes.
"Naw I didn't buy new strings, didn't want to spend the money."
"What's a metronome, you mean the click thingy?"
"Turn the drums off, they're messing me up."
"I don't care if it sounds like shit, we just need songs."
When he said that, I just stopped. I couldn't take it any longer. I was already getting paid near nothing, so I didn't fix any problems in editing. Mistriggers everywhere, HORRIBLE guitar playing. The guys loved the outcome.
tempe
Captain Midnight
Any band under the age of 16, unless they are really really good. Seriously having to record a band + babysit is no fun for anyone
gabriel g.
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only had good experience with the young bands?
not on the musical-quality side, but on the with-passion side.
And they always paid upfront
bad musicians. i don't mind working with any style, and if the songs are good i can still get into the right mood even if it's not my cup of tea at all, but with bad musicians it's just no fun at all.
i get paid by the hour for all tracking work, so in theory bad musicians get me more money as they just need to work harder, but with some bands it's just not happening, even after 10 hours tracking guitar for one songs and still having to deal with an untight mess.
the thing with bad musicians is that they don't understand what they're doing wrong even after i showed them. or they understand, but can't change it.
with good musicians you can still point them into the right direction, make suggestions how to play this and that part, and make sure the product turns out slamming. the focus is about making a great record, instead of a salvage job.
i get paid by the hour for all tracking work, so in theory bad musicians get me more money as they just need to work harder, but with some bands it's just not happening, even after 10 hours tracking guitar for one songs and still having to deal with an untight mess.
the thing with bad musicians is that they don't understand what they're doing wrong even after i showed them. or they understand, but can't change it.
with good musicians you can still point them into the right direction, make suggestions how to play this and that part, and make sure the product turns out slamming. the focus is about making a great record, instead of a salvage job.
Harry Hughes
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I'm guessing that's 95 per cent of them.
Most people just aren't wired to be able to play music that technical cleanly and accurately, but yet kids these days are utterly convinced they have the Between the Buried and Me, Necrophagist, The Faceless et al level of skill down because they learnt how to do sweep picking.......and unfortunately never learnt how to actually riff properly.
pipaguapique
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Seth Munson
How do Amber Lamps?
If I could choose I would drop everything except the "core" bands, indie/pop, and modern radio pop
timislegend
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since when are we unable to choose who we work with?
...i would say *broadcast television is the most cumbersome to "deal" with...
regarding bands? ...i refuse to work with hippies.
...i would say *broadcast television is the most cumbersome to "deal" with...
regarding bands? ...i refuse to work with hippies.
::XeS::
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Right. Often I give advices to the musician, expecially about how to play in a better way a part, the best position for the hands or the palm, the strength of the playing, etc... but you immediately understand when a musician can use your advice and when not. For example a drummer that know only in a certain way his parts and he's already at his limit....I think that adding advices to his playing can only introduce more difficult into the performances...so it's better that he plays like he already know.
I'm cleaning this project at the moment, and I have the bassist performance that's very bad.....very simple parts out of time (I recorded the bass of a song in a single take without mistakes...and I didn't know the notes and the tab) because during the recording I didn't know how to improve his performance. If I said him to play harder, he played the first note harder and the rest like before...and something similar. At this point I let the musicians play and after the recording I try to fix in some way. In fact, I'm thinking to record myself these bass parts :|
RockGuitarX
Miles of Machines
Loren Littlejohn
Lover of all boobage.
The sub 20 age group that says "we want to sound like (insert a shitty Rise Records artist here)"
Fuck you unoriginal bastards.
Fuck you unoriginal bastards.
Sinister Mephisto
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Honestly, I don't care if a band sucks. Just when they try to play above your ability. That's when stuff gets really hairy.
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DestroyTheColossus
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I worked with a band like that and got most of those quotes from them, but also got another golden one. Most of the band was hanging out in a different room, so I walked in and told the guitarist it was time for him to track, and got this in response:
"Aw. I don't want to play guitar right now though."
In my head I was going going, then why the hell are you even here? It seemed to some of them like recording was a time to just hang out and be a band. Like no one wanted to stop hanging out and work, they just wanted the final product.
