[Mr.HOLMES]

Thanks for all the answers.

And yes thorough this I found some answers myself.


1. Do still love it?

The answer is clear I think: NO!
Why!

Yes it can be done in 1000 different ways.
And thats the point. I give my clients a rough mix and ask them if I can go this direction.
Ok mostly they say yes it sounds good go this route.

After I went this route in over 70% the client gives me a call and wants to have the mix upside down.

Ok I wrote here this is normal in a different thread.

But I hate mixing the same song 2 or more times.
So most clients in my league think the mix can do wonders on the song or on bad tracked guitars.

They think I can give them a massive guitar sound out of m.-box line signals.

So last time I did re-amping and used my tape recorder and it took massive time for the setup to start mixing this song.

All I got was 350 Euros this is a ridicules cheap price.
So clients want to have all the best sound they can get for the lowest amount of money.

Yes, this is frustrating when in the end the clients wants to have everything different but he advised me to go the rough mix route.

Anyway I think some musicians do not understand what time it takes to get a good fair mix and they compare it to different music which is mastered.

Some people here say it is just matter of communication.
Is it? I do not think so because of the reason that is is totally subjective the client can always call for a revise as long as he likes.

But there must be a bottom line I mean what they are expecting from mainly bad tracked stuff.... so my job is 75% fix it in the mix.

Amen....