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Originally Posted by drBill 
Don't manage your clients, manage your studio.
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Great quote!
In Brazil is different to work with independent bands i guess. They rarely have producers, so i always have to do a little producing when some recordings come along.
I tell "this type of music will demand 3 hours for the guitar, 7 to the drums, 4 to the percussions" and so... How i know that? as some pointed: experience.
Sometimes a client is not exactly a great player... specially the drummers... So you do a bad drum sessions in 6 hours and ask for more 2 to edit it all so the drummer and the metronome can befriend again. And you ask 8 hours for the drums.
But i always depend on the budget. I accept lots of types of clients, and sometimes they have $3.000 and sometimes $300.... as people in design do "For this client is good". You know you can go much much better, but well, people get what they paid for. But be sure not to release compromisinly bad work. I never do that also.