Bands and Musicians

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How you interact with the musicians and bands you work with could be the single most important part of the recording process. ...

You may remember a day when a “hit” had to be sanitized by the powers that be to be safe. This is the mainstream picture we've all been presented. On the other hand, there have been other media outlets that work on ...

I've ran my studio since 2001. In that time, I've recorded so many people that I can't remember all the people I've recorded. I've come to realize that recording local bands is DEFINITELY a service based business. This puts us in one of those “the customer is always right” situations. Developing an attitude that you should bend over backwards and do absolutely everything in your power to make the band happy is an integral part of running a studio. Understanding a band's needs is everything and deciding which tools and tactics are required for the job is the biggest reason they've hired you. However, there are times when bands get out of line, you have to abandon the “customer is always right” mentality, and make a point based on little more than principal.

I had a situation this week where one particular band member wanted some changes to a “first draft” mix I had uploaded for the band. Of course, that's not how it was presented. The singer, who is quite talented, went well out of his way to INSULT me on each and every point of the mix. It was a given to anyone who has “done this” before that the mix needed some changes, not necessarily because the mix was flawed, but because every band has different tastes and different directions they want to take their music. Never, in my ...

I had some guy griping that his username was already taken here at the RecordingReview.com forum. I deal with this sort of thing daily, but this time the guy actually claimed to have the name trademarked. I thought, “Hmmm. This is interesting”.

The username in question was “Mixerman”. A quick search in Google pointed me to a certain book called The Daily Adventures of Mixerman, which promised to be a true insiders look of the day-to-day goings on in the major label big boy land. It seems our Mixerman was a real engineer doing the kind of records that people used to pay for.

Mixerman and I shot the ...