funny things said in today's session

[knerd]

I had a client today that insists on recording his guitar before he records drums. I tried to talk him out of it... no dice.. so, what I did was load up digidesign CLICK, find the tempo he likes, then I pull up a kick, snare, hat, crash sample and create him a glorified click track... it was the least I could do..

Me: "Is that tempo cool?"
client: "it's perfect, I love it, just speed it up a little. but the tempo is perfect" ..
[this happened a few times..]


Me: "How did you like the ending of that song? is it supposed to be like that?"
Client: "yeah, I love it, let's go back and redo it"..
[I couldn't hold in my laugh at that point..]

Client: "Do you know what bot tyrant is?"
Me: [empty stare back at him]
Client: "butt turrent? what is it?"
Me: "are you trying to say bit torrent? if so, I know what it is"
Client: "No, it's this thing on the internet that you use to download software from all over the place, then it 'compresses it together'. Spy Torrent maybe?"
Me: "You don't actually own a computer do you?"
Client: "No, I want to get one so I can start making music for movies with Maya. My friend pirated it with bot turrets and it costs $30,000"..
Me: "Wow, Maya is the shit for movie sound tracks isn't it?"

[Berolzheimer]

Originally Posted by knerd

I had a client today that insists on recording his guitar before he records drums. I tried to talk him out of it... no dice.. so, what I did was load up digidesign CLICK, find the tempo he likes, then I pull up a kick, snare, hat, crash sample and create him a glorified click track... it was the least I could do..

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I have a client liek that too, but with him it's all about the feel- it's got to be at the tempo that feels right when he's playing his acoustic- it never worked to play him a click & say, "does that feel right? How about this?" So what we do is I let him play the song a few times through by himself, usually singing and playing at the same time, have him listen back & decide which section of which take has the best feel, then I make a click to match that, & we start tracking for real. Works great.

[MACHINE]

That tempo thing was golden hahahahaha

[funkynuts]

Originally Posted by Berolzheimer

I have a client liek that too, but with him it's all about the feel- it's got to be at the tempo that feels right when he's playing his acoustic- it never worked to play him a click & say, "does that feel right? How about this?" So what we do is I let him play the song a few times through by himself, usually singing and playing at the same time, have him listen back & decide which section of which take has the best feel, then I make a click to match that, & we start tracking for real. Works great.

Same here

[Jose Mrochek]

Originally Posted by MACHINE

That tempo thing was golden hahahahaha

yes!

[Durv]

BUTT TYRRAAANNNTTT!1!
OMG!!
hahaha
Durv

[moonpi]

Originally Posted by knerd

I had a client today that insists on recording his guitar before he records drums.

It doesn't make sense most all the time, I'll agree. However, Sly Stone did this A LOT (not to mention starting in New York with a guitar line, flying to San Fran to get a bass he left at his Mom's house, and then going to LA to put that down, then going back to San Fran to do vocals, and then maybe go to Chicago to finally get around to those drums) and his music is pretty groovin'.