pet-peeves GO!

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

i dont know about you, but it pisses me off when they put their ears right against the monitors!!!

ahhhhh!! are they deaf??? even if it's turned up really loud and you're trying to show them something, they put their big heads right against the speakers!!!!!! adfskl;jadfskl;jadskl;hj

Haha, agreed. It doesn't really irritate me, but it's kinda weird.

 

[Limak]

YES, cellphones.
I don't even own one. They just piss me off.
You are talking to someone, and then it rings and they cut you off mid sentence to answer the fucking call..........makes me feel like this :

Throw your goddamn cellphone in the lake, where it belongs you fucking cunt.
I wanna be able to talk and socialize with people in the real world, not watch them socialize with some cunt over the other end of the line.

But you do realise cellphones are used for exchanging simple and important information and not for socialising? They are called cellphones, not chatphones/cellchats for a reason. I'd rather get informed about my burning home ASAP rather than continuing conversation with some technology hating cunt.

 

[Line666]

But you do realise cellphones are used for exchanging simple and important information and not for socialising?

What fucking planet have you been on lately?

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

What fucking planet have you been on lately?

This just about put me in the grave

 

[Limak]

What fucking planet have you been on lately?

I don't give a fuck about how others are using them, I use it only for important means thats all that mathers for me

 

[gabriel g.]

+100 on the chair shit......after about the 3rd time of someone fidgeting around and bumping my chair I'm instantly pissed like ...Hulk Smash pissed ... Hulk Smash guitarist,Hulk smash guitarist now! haha (reminds me of being in school and the kid behind you is kicking your chair.)

other than that
farting in the control room is def not cool,
and mother fuckers breathing on me with hot rotten ass breath..... a tic tac goes a long way in the studio brotha

One time the band was eating chilli, damn it was a fart concert....was funny for 5min but not for 5h!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DeclanWhite]

ahhh the negatives of being an AE

 

[timislegend]

hmm...

i consider myself a nice person however, i really dislike how people get really spiritual about the production aspect of the process.

there are a lot of "hippie-like" people here in the sf, bay area... even a lot of the xXx/metal-core kids act SUPER HIPPIE.

and for some reason this "spiritual-music-production" attitude really distracts me.

i like chill people but please don't get so "hippie" over something so technical.

it is what it is.

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

Care to elaborate mr new guy

 

[PhilTheBeard]

A thing that really pisses me off is when you let a band crash at your place while recording and they do either of these things.

1. Drink all the water's and soda's in your fridge
2. Take a shower in your bathroom and use all your shampoo

 

[GarethSE]

hmm...

i consider myself a nice person however, i really dislike how people get really spiritual about the production aspect of the process.

there are a lot of "hippie-like" people here in the sf, bay area... even a lot of the xXx/metal-core kids act SUPER HIPPIE.

and for some reason this "spiritual-music-production" attitude really distracts me.

i like chill people but please don't get so "hippie" over something so technical.

it is what it is.

and i dislike how people who treat it as just pure technicality and not a form of self expression

 

[muckypup1]

and i dislike how people who treat it as just pure technicality and not a form of self expression

+ fucking 1

 

[raybrochill]

I hate when bands come to my place and they like.. suck and stuff

 

[gabriel g.]

I hate when people come to my place and they like.. suck and stuff

haha awsome!!!

 

[lolzgreg]

-When singers argue they're on time, yet I saved all five takes of a phrase and they were all different
-When I tell guitarists and bassists that their instrument has to be set up and restrung by me 24 hours prior to tracking, and they argue. I tell them they can't record with me otherwise. I can't tell you how many people have had their guitars set up professionally and brought here and they STILL didn't play OR stay in tune.
-When people try to lowball me.

 

[timislegend]

Care to elaborate mr new guy

what i mean by this is...

as a recording/mixing/mastering engineer it is imperative that one would go about obtaining some sort of connection to the material in an effort to serve the goal of the music/song.

sometimes (not all) ...performers can hold on SO TIGHT to their material that they convolute what they are trying to say... which confuses the audience (whoever the audience maybe). which results in "bad communication".

this causes a stubborn point of view or "spiritual-bias" ...THINK DEWEY COX !

 

[timislegend]

and i dislike how people who treat it as just pure technicality and not a form of self expression

i believe; what makes me a good engineer is how i communicate with the performer. not how much "I" can express "myself" into their music.

this is service industry... and my intention is to be expressive however not all performers require me to impose "my" expression but instead require my technical assistance to their ignorance.

 

[timislegend]

I hate when bands come to my place and they like.. suck and stuff

haha!

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

-When I tell guitarists and bassists that their instrument has to be set up and restrung by me 24 hours prior to tracking, and they argue. I tell them they can't record with me otherwise. I can't tell you how many people have had their guitars set up professionally and brought here and they STILL didn't play OR stay in tune.

You actually go through that work with every band? Props brother

 

[C_F_H_13]

hmm...

i consider myself a nice person however, i really dislike how people get really spiritual about the production aspect of the process.

there are a lot of "hippie-like" people here in the sf, bay area... even a lot of the xXx/metal-core kids act SUPER HIPPIE.

and for some reason this "spiritual-music-production" attitude really distracts me.

i like chill people but please don't get so "hippie" over something so technical.

it is what it is.

I can actually relate to that to an extent. I have a lot of terrible musicians come in and say they suck cause they "aren't feeling it today" or "the vibe isn't right". Then you run around the room turning off lights, lighting candles, getting some incense going, getting them their tea and giving them their 30 minutes of "preparation time".... and they still suck.

I think music should be about emotion and feeling as much as the next person, but you can't blame non existent energy on you being bad at what you do. I had one guy tell me I didn't understand music properly cause I was not religious (NOTE I SAID RELIGIOUS NOT SPIRITUAL), and couldn't see how god intended it.

The vibe in the studio is what you make it, how you act and how you are feeling. No non existent hippie bullshit will make that any better or worse.