[richiebee]

Yeah, I don't ever have time for shitting around when I have a client in either. Not only because the fucking control room is so far from the recording room that it's a big time waster to keep going between the two spaces (it's rare that I have an assistant), but also because the kind of clients I get wanna be in and out in no time. They're usually working as session musicians for someone else with really small (or empty) pockets. You can't expect too much from these people.

I suspect for the stuff I'm doing, there's no benefit to driving the preamps hard.

Just wondered as a general rule because I was in someone elses studio with my band recording, and the engineer was really trying to push the gain to the max. Completely different genre to what I record, but I wondered why he took the chance when the gear is of the quality where utilizing every bit of gain available is not so important.


R.