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Georia, that was the funniest and truest quote I've heard all year.. It even beat my '..it's not a Fender, even if your Strap says it..' (someone was trying to sell a Squier as a Fender.)

I did the recording school thing, and it was a bit of a waste. (I complained in another thread about this). What irks me most though is that most of the people who come out from these schools are very ill informed about 'real world' situations. When I started I was doing 18hr days for 3 months straight, 7 days a week, and it was great!
I love my free time but, you pull out all the stops to get the job done.. And sure, we all moan about the hours sometimes, but you know that when you're done, it's going to RAWK!

Producers skipping AudioPost is quite common here in SA. It just makes me smile, cause I get a lot of 'repeat' clients, because they wanted to do it themselves, and then I have to save it. Now some of them come to me straight. Even my housemate (whose a video editor) told me that he does the mixing for a lot of their corporate clients. I listened, told him he should let someone else do it.. he was not happy. I tried to give him pointers, but when a guy doesn't even know what a compressor is, or what the Q on anEQ does, you can't help much.