The button/setting you forgot to adjust.....

[johnnypreset]

I've lost count of the amount of times I simply aint plugged the lead into my guitar. Pissing about with amp volume, standby switches, guitar volume, pedal switches. Twang twang twang "Ah fook the leads still on the floor"
Total twat.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

I've forgot to record enable a track just to play/hear the artist play the golden take. Several times. Learned my lesson, though, hasn't happened in a good while

Also, a couple of years back I was doing a live recording of a friend's band's rehearsal. Everything sounded cool, I hit rec and sat back and auditioned the guys play for like an hour. When I hit stop, Cubum told me disk space had ran out somewhere around 20 minutes and it decided to wipe the whole take from the HD. Needless to say, I was just a bit embarrassed when the guys came to the "control room" to check how it sounded. "Uhh, yeah, it did sound really good, but I've got nothing to play back to you."

 

[seditz740novaprospect]

i dont normally make these kind of mistakes, but i have done some unrecoverable "damage" before.

example: select a guitar clip at the end of the song, you're gonna edit it, but wait, you heard something else before this part as it was playing back
you scroll to earlier in the song and forget that the last two guitar clips are still selected
you hold shift and begin to select something else to delete
you hit delete
you save and go to lunch
you re-open, and now there's no guitars at the end

and now you've gotta waste time going through the pool and building that clip again

AHHH

ahhhhhhhhhhh i fucking hate that everynow and again i do that with somethign...... i was using a daw prog and it kept crashing session files i had to rebuild a song with 115 tracks, and 4 tempochanges... song ended up sound great though in the end...


at my studio i get people messing up there sounds my first 4 channels are routed to external comp/ pre chains yet still try to patch into 1-4 for inputs into the interface//// not tomention its labled

 

[AudioGeekZine]

how about when you pick up a guitar, don't plug it in to anything, you play a chord or two, then you turn up the volume on the guitar like it will do something while unplugged.
C'mon I know you all do it.

 

[crosstalk]

Once when mastering a project I fiddled with the eq and wondered why I needed to make so drastic boosts/cuts to affect the sound. Once I got it to my liking the eq curve looked like a rollercoaster. After a while I found out that the eq was off. But I'm sure I heard the changes in the sound Strange..

It makes no sense, but I can swear I'm hearing a difference even when the EQ is off or on the wrong track.

I've lost count of the amount of times I simply aint plugged the lead into my guitar. Pissing about with amp volume, standby switches, guitar volume, pedal switches. Twang twang twang "Ah fook the leads still on the floor"
Total twat.

how about when you pick up a guitar, don't plug it in to anything, you play a chord or two, then you turn up the volume on the guitar like it will do something while unplugged.
C'mon I know you all do it.

Guilty, guilty, guilty.

That or I'll have something like the Floor board for the PODXT rocked all the way back so that there is no sound, usually right when the guitarist begins his take.

I've also done the "missed the perfect take." Happened recently, had 10 of the drum inputs set to record... just happened to miss arming the overhead track. Man is it embarrassing letting all of the excited band members know that "I'm not joking, I totally fucked up."

How about tuning the guitar and wondering why you have to crank the peg so much just to get the string to go a little bit sharper, then look and realise you're holding the wrong peg.

 

[Lowberg]

This really isn't a "forgot" story but funny none the less.

My mesa recto had just got back from the shop because it had a faulty tube, smoke started pouring out the back, scariest thing ever!

So I just had gotten it fixed and my band was setting up on stage at a big show...

A few minutes after I turn the thing on, I smell something funny...

And then smoke starts rising from the back of my amp.

I start cursin! and Yellin! and Im just so fucking pissed off in rage....

...And then I realize my drummer brought the damn fog machine and put it right next to my amp

 

[Trep]

Plugged into the Wrong Pre once for an Overhead,

OH L was actually an SM57 Sitting in front of a Guitar Cab Doing nothing.....

Worst thing was i Didnt Notice until drummer went home.

 

[crosstalk]

Plugged into the Wrong Pre once for an Overhead,

OH L was actually an SM57 Sitting in front of a Guitar Cab Doing nothing.....

Worst thing was i Didnt Notice until drummer went home.

Nothing wrong with experimental micing.

 

[OctoberRust]

I think it's best to actually think you're hearing the difference in sound when tweaking the knobs and having found the right sound. Just to notice later that you were on the wrong channel, or something alike, and all your fine tuning had zero effect on the sound at all!

 

[Nebulous]

How about tuning the guitar and wondering why you have to crank the peg so much just to get the string to go a little bit sharper, then look and realise you're holding the wrong peg.

I use to do that all the time!

 

[Razzee]

we're using gearbox atm at rehearsal for one of our guitarists. somebody muted it when he tried to get the drum to trigger...
he didn't told me, so we searched like 20min for the problem ._.

 

[Eddy]

how about when you pick up a guitar, don't plug it in to anything, you play a chord or two, then you turn up the volume on the guitar like it will do something while unplugged.
C'mon I know you all do it.

Yep, and I have to switch the neck pickup on for leads and adjust the tone pot too. And all this although I damn sure know the guitar is unplugged.

How about tuning the guitar and wondering why you have to crank the peg so much just to get the string to go a little bit sharper, then look and realise you're holding the wrong peg.

Guilty as charged.

I have also forgotten to unplug my bass and plug in the guitar instead while recording, which has made me go through all possible reasons why there is no signal going through the DAW. *facepalm*

And since I got my active speakers, I have few times cursed why can't I hear anything and then realised that I forgot to turn on the speakers. *facepalm*

 

[ChrisTanakaCanwell]

I've forgot to record enable a track just to play/hear the artist play the golden take. Several times. Learned my lesson, though, hasn't happened in a good while

That's why I started leaving QuickPunch on in Pro Tools! Saves you a lot of agony if you remember to hit record before you stop the playback

 

[Skinny Viking]

This really isn't a "forgot" story but funny none the less.

My mesa recto had just got back from the shop because it had a faulty tube, smoke started pouring out the back, scariest thing ever!

So I just had gotten it fixed and my band was setting up on stage at a big show...

A few minutes after I turn the thing on, I smell something funny...

And then smoke starts rising from the back of my amp.

I start cursin! and Yellin! and Im just so fucking pissed off in rage....

...And then I realize my drummer brought the damn fog machine and put it right next to my amp

thats fucking great

 

[Jormyn]

I spent several months wondering why my guitar tone was suddenly so shitty... turned out that I had accidentally flipped a switch on my distortion pedal and gone from a Recto to a crappy attempt at a JCM 900.

 

[xMannequiNx]

did a whole tracking sesh with an upside-down overhead mic...not fun to mix

 

[joeymusicguy]

i can't find the awesome button.

 

[The Unavoidable]

Tracked a drum session with like 2 milliseconds of latency. We didn't notice during tracking, sounded just fine but when it came to editing it was a damn nightmare. I just thought it was the drummer having timing issues.

We found out when me and the drummer went to the studio a few days after to pick up some files we didn't have time to get earlier, and we ran into a guy who had used the studio before us. "Yeah, you reset the latency right? I had it sky-high for a mixing session right before you guys came along. It would have been impossible to record like that!"

Serious fucking facepalm as I just realised why the hell we spent so much time doing retakes of things that sounded just fine, but were all wrong aligned in the DAW. Lesson learned, I guess!

 

[thefyn]

I hit record and forgot that our rhythm player was shit and could never really play.

 

[SteveFireland]

I contsantly make sure all three knobs on my Jackson KV2 are turned up full, even though two of them aren't even wired up.

Steve.