- Nov 1, 2009
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Okay so..
About a month ago, I recorded this pop punk band.
They're friends of mine, so I did the recording for free. (They didn't have any money, and I wanted to record someone)
So they came over to record, and completely butchered the recording.. The drummer couldn't stay on time, couldn't play to a click, the guitarists had shitty guitars, etc.
Well.. Eventually, they finished tracking and I rendered them a rough copy to hear. Mind you... my rough mixes don't sound anything like the final product. I had literally just finished tracking and burnt them a copy on a CD.
Soo.. they leave the studio and I try to polish the turd as best I can over the next couple of days.
I eventually decided that the guitars HAD to be re-recorded with one of mine, and it would be best if the drummer re-recorded, but it wasn't necessary.
I contacted the guitar players, and told them to get back in the studio, and we'd lay down the guitar tracks so they could put their song up on myspace. (They had been bugging me about it.)
Well, they kept giving me every excuse as to why they couldn't come, and what do you know?! The rough, shitty, poor excuse for a track ended up on their myspace player.
AND THEN, they had the nerve to tell other people that... "Yeah, that song was just a rough demo that Josh never finished mixing.."
So.. After a few days, this egotistical, arrogant, piss-ant of a AE contacts me trying to tell me all the things I did wrong on that recording.
I was polite, and explained the situation to him. But for some reason or another, he became aggressive and attacked me personally with things like.. "You do everything wrong.. You suck at recording and everyone knows it, etc.."
I fucking hate this town, and the people associated with it. There are very few bands here, and I have basically no one to record, so any opportunity I'm given, I snatch it up!
I'm not quite sure how all this will play out, but I just had to get it out. I had to rant.
Thanks for reading.
About a month ago, I recorded this pop punk band.
They're friends of mine, so I did the recording for free. (They didn't have any money, and I wanted to record someone)
So they came over to record, and completely butchered the recording.. The drummer couldn't stay on time, couldn't play to a click, the guitarists had shitty guitars, etc.
Well.. Eventually, they finished tracking and I rendered them a rough copy to hear. Mind you... my rough mixes don't sound anything like the final product. I had literally just finished tracking and burnt them a copy on a CD.
Soo.. they leave the studio and I try to polish the turd as best I can over the next couple of days.
I eventually decided that the guitars HAD to be re-recorded with one of mine, and it would be best if the drummer re-recorded, but it wasn't necessary.
I contacted the guitar players, and told them to get back in the studio, and we'd lay down the guitar tracks so they could put their song up on myspace. (They had been bugging me about it.)
Well, they kept giving me every excuse as to why they couldn't come, and what do you know?! The rough, shitty, poor excuse for a track ended up on their myspace player.
AND THEN, they had the nerve to tell other people that... "Yeah, that song was just a rough demo that Josh never finished mixing.."
So.. After a few days, this egotistical, arrogant, piss-ant of a AE contacts me trying to tell me all the things I did wrong on that recording.
I was polite, and explained the situation to him. But for some reason or another, he became aggressive and attacked me personally with things like.. "You do everything wrong.. You suck at recording and everyone knows it, etc.."
I fucking hate this town, and the people associated with it. There are very few bands here, and I have basically no one to record, so any opportunity I'm given, I snatch it up!
I'm not quite sure how all this will play out, but I just had to get it out. I had to rant.
Thanks for reading.
(is Gage his middle name?)
