Guy comes to record some acoustic rock material for an album (released).
We record all the tracks, no problem, then the vocals, no problem, then the mix, uh oh.
I put a little verb on it and he likes it, he asks for echo, and the way he sings, a few well placed cannon echo's would be nice, but, he wants extreme echo.
This guy's songs would have been fine with NO echo, strong material. He doesn't have time to mix or for me to write the automation required to get his echos right and says, "my girlfriend will LOVE this" and insists I leave it all on.
He releases the record, goes on a foreign songwriter's forum site, and says, "I went to get this done old school and this is what I got, I'll never do that again".
Bizarrely enough, this record got the best reviews he ever had.
It never dawned on him that shirking his own responsibility for screwing his own pooch would be a bad idea.
He has since apologized for this whole thing, even in that forum.