Quote:
Originally Posted by Tantrum The Cat  Assuming you have the tracks still, you should make some alternate mixes that YOU are happy with and put THOSE in your portfolio/demo reel/online samples/what have you.
Pretty much everything I do is delivered to clients to be mixed and mastered elsewhere, and I've had to learn that what I send is going to come back sounding different - sometimes drastically so. I chalk it up to experience, make sure that I have a version that I like the sound of, and move on.
I don't mean to be glib, by the way - it took a few years for the old ego to be okay with all of this!!! |
Thanks for the moral support. If you reread the second to last line in the second to last paragraph you'll see that's exactly what I did. Yup, the ol' ego is slowly but surely being beaten into humble submission. Any day now, I might even grow up.
In this case I was the producer as well as engineer, and was not expecting to be sidestepped. Unfortunately, I had nothing in the contract to protect against it. The whole thing was a huge learning experience that escalated way beyond my original expectations. I'm actually quite thankful for the experience, mostly...