Typical Musician

[adamcal]

Today I miced up a amp with 2 mics and told the player to play away while I go get a sound for him,

OK, so I go into the CR, sit at at the desk bring up 2 faders, patch the IBP into one of them and start phase aligning

within about 5 seconds, the guy decides now would be the ideal time to click on his phaser pedal.

****er!!!

[AlexLakis]

I went to mic up this guitarist's rig one time...there was an ungodly amount of noise coming out of his cab. I went in to check on him, and he had a pedal board bigger than the state of Rhode Island. I went to see what the problem could be...The poor kid had a compressor chained in there set to max threshold, max ratio, max output.

"A friend of mine told me the key to a great guitar sound is a compressor!"

[5down1up]

@ adam

[Infernal Device]

Two funny stories...

speed metal guitar player (proclaimed how picky he is about his sound) with a 12 space rack full effects (EQ's going into more eq's, noise reducers, comps, etc) into a H&K half stack. "Nobody can ever record my sound right" he says.

After putting a mic on it and hearing that it sounded horrible, I went out, plugged his guitar straight into the amp and tried it again.

"HOLY SHIT" he actually yelled out...what did you do? THAT is the sound I want!!

When I told him he said that was impossible (until he went out to prove me wrong and saw).


****AND*****


Another heavy guitar player with a horrific piece of crap guitar and amp. He set up his sound. It was horrible. Bass to 10, treble to 10, treble boost pushed in. Mid range to -10.

To try to fix the sound I moved the mic and changed the knobs. By the time I got back into the control room, he had changed them all back. "Why did you do that?" I asked....he said "I want MY sound."

So I recorded it that way. They got the disc and called me the next day "The guitar sounds like shit...it is all thin". I told him that is "his" sound and that is why I made the changes.

They called me a dick and hung up. On the local music website message boards they said I was a scam and an asshole and have no idea what I am doing.

That was three years ago. That was the end of the demos for heavy bar bands for me.

[theblotted]

Originally Posted by Infernal Device

They called me a dick and hung up. On the local music website message boards they said I was a scam and an asshole and have no idea what I am doing.

That was three years ago. That was the end of the demos for heavy bar bands for me.

that's hilarious... but what do you do in that kinda situation? how far would you go for damage control?

[max cooper]

Originally Posted by theblotted

how far would you go for damage control?

Getting rid of those kinds of bands is damage control.

[flail19]

When I was interning at a studio I was allowed to record by myself after hours. A friend set up a band to come in and he said that this guitarist was the best player since George Lynch. The guy comes in, sets up his gear (Marshall fullstack) and we begin the session. After about three seconds I notice that this guy does not know tone from **it. After about three hours of him whining about this and that he leaves and comes back in with a Dokken tape and slaps it down on the table and says "Here is how the guitar should sound." He then goes on to ask "what do I have to do to get it to sound like that?" I gave him the old "you can't polish garbage speech and he called me an idiot...I just rolled the tape back on the real and put it in the box, walked out and set it outside the door. I have never been so close to ripping another guy's head off before or since.

[RainbowStorm]

Originally Posted by adamcal

Today I miced up a amp with 2 mics and told the player to play away while I go get a sound for him,

OK, so I go into the CR, sit at at the desk bring up 2 faders, patch the IBP into one of them and start phase aligning

within about 5 seconds, the guy decides now would be the ideal time to click on his phaser pedal.

****er!!!

Hehe, he just knew what to do and did it...!