- May 9, 2006
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So, I started working on the new studio i talked about on a post a few weeks ago. I was recording guy who was doing some Scorpions covers and everything was going great. He hired a couple musicians to record keyboards and acoustic guitars. The guitar player works there as a music teacher and since the first time i met him, I expected to have problems with him. He´s a very experienced guitar player but also a very arrogant person.
Ok, so we recorded some stuff, and I didnt record the guitars (the other guy did), and when i came to mix, i noticed some guitars were not tuned correctly. I decided not to tell anybody, find a vst chorus plug in and use it. I used on a couple of songs and it worked perfectly. My decision to not tell anyone (the guy who´s recording, the studio onwer or the guitarist/music teacher) was exactly due to the arrogancy of this guy. I knew he wouldnt accept my opinion, and since i am new there, the onwer could just listen to him (he already did some things like this on a few ocasions).
After some time, we were mixing another song and the teach came in, and started making faces to the mix, which was sounding very good to everyone but him. He asked why one of his acoustics was so quiet and i responded that it was out of time - and it was clearly. He asked me to play it again and started laughing, claiming that my musicallity was ´weird´. I responded it WAS out of time, and clearly, so he arrogantly answered me the same thing, and completed telling me to take some lessons with him. Ok, I am not a very good guitar player at all, and he´s much more experienced than me, but if there´s one thing i am good at it is timing and tuning. If it was such an obvious thing and easy to anyone that´s good a the instrument, there would be no one like me to record those morons. You may ask why i didnt edit it before, and i say that we didnt have time : 5 songs with no arrangements, recording ,mixing AND mastering in 3 days.
I answered politely " Ok, so i go to your class and i will also teach you how to tune a guitar, as we needed to fix your out of tune guitars on a couple of songs" . He talked some shit and later i apologized for the guy recording.
When i finished my work, i went to talk to the onwer and found the mother fucker there talking to him. So, what do you think, should i go and talk to my boss about this incident or just forget and move on ?
Ivan
Ok, so we recorded some stuff, and I didnt record the guitars (the other guy did), and when i came to mix, i noticed some guitars were not tuned correctly. I decided not to tell anybody, find a vst chorus plug in and use it. I used on a couple of songs and it worked perfectly. My decision to not tell anyone (the guy who´s recording, the studio onwer or the guitarist/music teacher) was exactly due to the arrogancy of this guy. I knew he wouldnt accept my opinion, and since i am new there, the onwer could just listen to him (he already did some things like this on a few ocasions).
After some time, we were mixing another song and the teach came in, and started making faces to the mix, which was sounding very good to everyone but him. He asked why one of his acoustics was so quiet and i responded that it was out of time - and it was clearly. He asked me to play it again and started laughing, claiming that my musicallity was ´weird´. I responded it WAS out of time, and clearly, so he arrogantly answered me the same thing, and completed telling me to take some lessons with him. Ok, I am not a very good guitar player at all, and he´s much more experienced than me, but if there´s one thing i am good at it is timing and tuning. If it was such an obvious thing and easy to anyone that´s good a the instrument, there would be no one like me to record those morons. You may ask why i didnt edit it before, and i say that we didnt have time : 5 songs with no arrangements, recording ,mixing AND mastering in 3 days.
I answered politely " Ok, so i go to your class and i will also teach you how to tune a guitar, as we needed to fix your out of tune guitars on a couple of songs" . He talked some shit and later i apologized for the guy recording.
When i finished my work, i went to talk to the onwer and found the mother fucker there talking to him. So, what do you think, should i go and talk to my boss about this incident or just forget and move on ?
Ivan
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