When every band member your recording...

Loren Littlejohn

Lover of all boobage.
wants to have what they played turned up...

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SERIOUSLY SHUT THE FUCK UP AND BE A TEAM PLAYER ASSHOLE.
 
+100, the only time it was different from this when I did my first recording,
the bassplayer said that I should lower his bass so that there's no problem
with the kick (the drums were recorded by a friend, got them on one stereo
track, so I wasn't able to do alot with them).
The lead guitar player wanted his leads quieter because you should be able
to hear the rhythms behind it well because they did some crazy shit there.
I was the singer and they told me to turn my vocals up :D .
It was really strange because they never recorded anything before or even
tried to mix something and behaved completely different on gigs or rehearsal.
The guitar players actually tracked their songs alone to get the tightest performance,
sure I wanted it, but they said it before I even started talking about that.

Would be awesome to record more stuff with them but we split 2 years ago
and the main songwriting guitar player lives in Spain.

Just had to write this :D

Recorded another band sometime ago, and it was just soooo bad...
Everybody was like: "dude, turn my guitar/bass/vox/drums up"
or "I need more bass in there, I want to feel it"-dude you play guitar
there's a bass that handles these frequencies, they actually wanted that
I remove the hp on the guitars and boost the lows...
In the end I high passed them at 120hz...they still thought that I didn't
high pass the guitars because they didn't get that the lows they hear
came from the bass guitar.
 
This is why you have a rule of "you dont ask for adjustments to your own instrument"
If everyone else in the band thinks that it's fine then it is fine.
 
I like to do mixes without the rest of my band being around. And then later on, they can each give me feedback and we discuss it away from the computer. Then I go back and make whatever adjustments we agreed on, without having them on my shoulder like harpies.
 
this is when you need to keep that phantom buss/fader around to turn up...placebo effect can be awesome sometimes!!