[jdtrbn]

Originally Posted by 24-96 Mastering

A couple of other (OT) session annoyances:

- When you ask: "Right, so what's the order of the songs going to be?" and the client answers: "Good question... what would you suggest?"

- When after the session is all done, the client says: "Great master! Now can you please make a version a couple dB louder for itunes. Just burn it louder... no change in sound necessary"

- When at the end of an 8-hour session, the client says any of the following:
"Dirk* said you'll make us a really good price."
"Dirk* said to expect an album mastering to cost around 200 Euro."
"Surely we get the 'privately financed artist discount'... we run the company/label/publishing company/multinational media conglomerate ourselves"
"Thanks man. Just send us the bill, we'll transfer the money as soon as we make some money with the release."
"Glad the project is done. I'll send you the instrumental mixes, TV-Playback mixes, remixes, b-sides, promo and radio edits tomorrow, then you can just let em run through with the same settings... that won't cost extra, right?"

- any of the above get even better when followed by: "Hey, should we pitch in for the coffee & Haribo?"

That's some scary shit right there.