Stupidest thing YOU've done in a session

[DeuceMix]

Originally Posted by jruberto

Aargh, this has caused me more than one over the years. why o why is there an "off" right there in the middle?!?!?

YES!!! Someone from Neve owes us an explanation. Is that the only way they could get the circuitry to work?

[edwonbass]

So I had a band in last weekend to begin work on a 4 song EP. The session started at 11am but the drummer worked his regular job until 4am so he showed up late and grumpy. We got set up and started to get sounds. Kick...ok good enough, snare....sounds fine...tom1 donk donk donk...ok whatever i can work with it and so on. The rest of the band seems like they all have somewhere they would rather be so I am anxious to get some takes done. Well the first 2 songs the drummer is all kick and snare with the occasional fill using the toms. I get them all in to hear playback and they are all smiles and proud of themselves.
Cut to the third song and the whole beat is the snare tom1, tom2, and floor tom beat. And the drummer is barely hitting the high tom. So that night I was getting some rough mixes together to email out and i'll be damned if I could get a good gate setting on those toms to save my life so I spent the evening cutting out everything on the tom tracks that wasn't a tom hit.
Lesson learned, don't let the band rush you into being sloppy.
It actually sounds pretty good just leaving the mics up and letting the bleed shine through.

[medusapro]

Probably not the stupidest thing but, pretty embarrassing. I was in the control room when Calton Coffie former lead singer of Inner Circle comes in. He introduces himself and in a thick jamaican accent tells me he has to check his insulin before the session. For some asinine reason I respond in a very bad sounding jamaican "It's Cool Mon" He immediately yells "What's so Cool about My Diabetes!!?" Let's just say that I turned white as a sheet. Luckily he felt bad and started laughing hysterically along with the rest of the band who heard it through the talkback mic! Needless to say it it gets brought up on a regular basis.

dave

[12ax7]

Originally Posted by medusapro

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Let's just say that I turned white as a sheet.
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Well, let's just say that you were ALREADY pretty much about as white as you were ever gonna get in your life (and then damn well proceeded to prove it quite well beyond any reasonable doubt!).

...But then I guess what you said was NOT really all that stupid.

(Just a stupid way of saying it.)

...And of course, since you were so obviously among friends (as apparently were THEY), all y'all are just gonna get a helluva lotta mileage outta THAT one!

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