Bad 1/2 Day In The Studio

[Bassmec]

So I let people rehearse in the drum room of the studio in down time, Its a loss leader, I charge very little, I use it as a way of meeting young bands and supply superb back-line and a 5200 JBL monitor rig all configured from the studios tie lines and protools system.
These guys I have never seen before turn up with armfuls of home studio equipment and kind of push their way past me looking furtive and proceed to start setting up, Demanding to plug in to the house system proffering a pair of unbalanced jacks the other end of which appears to be plugged into a small mixer of no repute, his mate is busy cannibalizing the current back-line set up to get enough guitar cables to connect it all together to what appears to be some kind of Guitar pedal so they can get distorted vocals.
I pointed out that I felt that what I had offered was a place and equipment to rehearse with and that I was unwilling to relinquish control of levels and what EQ and FX where used on the studio's drum room monitor system as I have experience of the effects of attempting to produce high levels of distorted Vox without any isolation for the microphones from the loudspeakers producing it.
I turn on the amp rack and crossover wander back into the control room to arm the 3 mic channels, a kick drum two vox and I overhear myself being called all sorts of names and "what kind of lame studio is this, we only want to get our own sound man, how does he know how loud we will want things if he's the one controlling it".
I calmly walked back in and told them that, usually its considered polite if you ask the engineer. I also pointed out that there were at least at least twenty two knobs to fiddle with on each of the amp heads that I had kindly loaned them.
My theory is, if god really existed there would be no music tech students, earthquakes, floods, pestilence and plague.

[lordmiguel]

you just gotta have people sign off on the rules first before they book. there's no other way around it, as there is no shortage of ass holes in the world.

[BLUElightCory]

Originally Posted by lordmiguel

you just gotta have people sign off on the rules first before they book. there's no other way around it, as there is no shortage of ass holes in the world.

+1!

[Black Seal]

I would have kindly pointed the way out with their refund hanging on the end of my Benelli.

I hate ungrateful **cks!

Perry

[Mark Adams]

I think I know those guys.

[mixman499]

i personally would have promptly dragged their a!@#@# out of my studio. tossed their money back and politely asked them to forget my number.

totally unacceptable.

wow.

sorry that happened to you.

so glad i am not running a commercial room these days.

next time, get it all on paper before they enter the room....what they are "booking"...what gear is included...and your "rules"...of which..you can have any number you feel neccessary. its your place.

all the best in the future,

jchristopherhughes

[Jay-]

IV worked with twerps like that in the film industry (low end)
A group of nasty film students with macbooks with ZERO credits wanted to roll me over... hellish experience..

The entire time one of em was text messenging for over an hour during pre production. The project did not include them... none of em..