A recent project had an overdub of some double kick playing 16ths. The drummer brought in a Roland drum trigger machine, TD something or other, and played the part using sticks on a pad. We attempted to match the sample to the recorded sound of the kick, but didn't do such a great job of it.
Anyway, comes mixdown time and these guys are saying"more double kick, more double kick...."
I use tannoy PMB6.5's an I KNOW how they sound in my room. I KNOW I've put the overdub in about the right place and that they're getting suckered by my room/speaker combo.
So, I re-eq/cracnk it up a bit to make the part stick out more, without wrecking the bottom end of the track, burn CD.
They come back a couple of days later and say"more double kick, more double kick...."
I give in, and crank the bottom end until they're raving.
I get a call last night saying "uh... we've listened to the cd at a few places and the double kick is too loud now.."
