[Thomas W. Bethe]

I master a lot for a hip hop artist. He is GREAT. He also uses some really profane and vulgar language. If I am mastering it and I hear something really bad I look at him and he smiles and says "hey it is what sells records"

I did a punk band one time where the lead singer spent about 30 minutes of a 43 minute song talking about putting things into and taking things out of his butt. When I got through with the session and they paid me and left I went in a took a very long shower. It was the only album I did with them.

I had a heavy metal band that sells most of their material in Europe. Their songs are very well crafted but their lyrics are mostly anarchist in nature. They talk a lot about "stupid Americans" and basically condemn the whole American way of life. They also sing about the communist and fascists governments of the world and praise Hitler and Stalin. It was not fun to listen to but I had two choices. Either do the work and get paid or stand on higher moral ground and tell them to find work elsewhere. I chose to end my involvement with them. They were good fast paying clients but the songs were so racist and hateful I really could not stand to work on them anymore.

If you are going to do certain genres of music it comes with the territory. You are either a professional and deal with it or you have to pre screen everything you do and pick and choose what it is that you want to do. If your studio is so profitable that you can pick and choose your clientele and pass judgment on their material then it should be no problem. Most studios do not have that luxury.

Best of luck!