| When I was an intern in the early to mid 90's the owner / engineer didn't format the ADAT tapes...! So we've got a band mic'd up, staring at us through the glass...and the engineer starts cussing himself about how he screwed up and slams his fists on the console...which blasts a huge KRCCHKK to their headphones which freaks them out and makes them jump.
So he tells me to go out there and adjust the microphones (or act like it) while he formats the tapes. I don't know the exact time frame, but it was ridiculous how long I kept getting up and going in there to act like I was adjusting a tom mic...of course without really moving it at all...going back into the control room...waiting a minute...still formatting...going back out and adjusting the freakin' guitar cab mic...without really making a difference in position...
The engineer should have just told those guys the truth! It really made us look like assholes cause these guys stood there for what seemed like forever. I felt like a dick. They just kept staring at us.
I'm trying for the life of me to think of something screwy that went wrong in my personal studio since then and thankfully cannot come up with any whoppers! Maybe one will hit me.
EDIT: Last year I recorded maybe 10 or 12 songs for a group and somehow didn't send audio from the right overhead to the DAW on a song. So I ended up with one overhead track...that I had pointed pretty hard left. I ended up sending it pretty much straight up the middle to see if it was workable, it wasn't anything great...so I asked them if they thought they could do better and they agreed and re-tracked it!
War |