[Musiclab]

You have to use bad tracks as a way to learn, when I used to do dance remixes , the 2 remixers I worked with would often come up with bad unmusical sounds. Of course they would fall in love with those bad sounds, I learned to deal with it and make it sound better and make them work in the track.
I remember getting tracks from a contemporary jazz project that were track so badly I got scared. The guy who tracked them I think used 2 dollar mics and decided that since the drummer hit the snare so hard he needed to move the snare mic away from the snare and put it next to the hi hat, which of course the drummer also pounded the s@#t out of. Somehow I figured a way to mix this stuff and get it to sound decent and then Scott Hull mastered it. Even in the last 2 weeks I got a project that has been totally ass backwards, the artist came here and I recorded him playing acoustic guitar to a click, then he had a bass player come in, after that he went to his drummers house who is a fine drummer but no engineer and has crappy mics , pre's and converters and cut drums
there cause he got them done for free. So now I've had to edit and clean up these bad drums which by the way probably have cost him as much in my editing time as it would have to just cut the drums here. So suck it up and instead of feeling like your not being a good engineer, learn!