| Ok, so the project is now closed. We had a fall out with the artist, and now we're off that case. I don't have any results for you guys to listen to, and I don't intend to show you what we did achive. I'm writing this for those of you who wanted to follow this project and perhaps pick up some tips&tricks. I'm honestly very sorry that it had to turn out this way, but when you're working with people who are not 100% professionals it usually ends up like this. First thing we couldn't agree on what we should focus on. I tried to convince him that we might need to record this album more than ten times just to find the proper mic position. He wanted to reduce everything to a one take with a lot of nerve... Which for me was unacceptable. Anyway, after 3 weeks of recording, mixing and fights, Jack steps in and hands me a flight ticket to florida. He said I need to take a break and come back with fresh ears. And how can I refuse such an offer. But I will admit, it did make all the difference. Sitting in that room for 3 weeks actually kill your creative mind (not to mention the ears). So I came back, heard what we had achived, and it wasn't much more to do than to tell the guy we're not going to complete it. We always prepare a contract where the artist commit to leaving all the important calls up to us, and luckly this was no exception. Due to this he'll get to compensate us for our time, excluding studio time, and the project is off. This was, as I expected, a very big mistake. Taking on a project like this was harder than I expected. I'm still happy that I got the chance to work on an album like this, but I doubt I will ever take it on again... |