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Originally Posted by IM WHO YOU THINK  I can get some pretty good sounds out of stuff that I track. When I control the quality going in. I'm all good. But when I'm asked to track low budget stuff that's not tracked under the "best" or conditions (read best as meaning at least good/decent conditions).
I never get what I want from it. I'm a terrible turd polisher but more and more I'm being asked to fix stuff that I really don't feel I can get the results I'd want from.
What do I do to improve this? |
If you get the smell early on that you'd be ending up turdpolishing on the gig, just either don't take it and give them some advice on how to get a better starting point for a good result or find a way to make it happen to your standard if possible within budget.
There's nothing worse than turdpolishing and I am of the opinion that it's best left to people who seem to like being submerged in turdsurgery for large parts of their working hours.
Nothing more depressing than working under your own standard. Doesn't do you any good careerwise either, unless you plan to milk the turdmarket to the limit. What I don't understand is how many people on this forum defend polishing shite as a necessary evil....again, only if you want to get more of the same work, as no result from those conditions is going to sound in a way that it will help you get better work.
Have a doorpolicy.
Oh, and its easy for TLA to say that, as he's already way past getting served some proper turdfodder anyway......it's all relative.