Best Studio April Fools Joke

[cbarrett92]

What is the best April fools joke you or someone else has done in the studio, at home, on location, etc?

[dudebrah69]

there were very good jokes on think-geek today!

once, when i was very young, i switched the sugar and the salt, and at breakfast, my dad put salt all over his cereal.

i was grounded and that was not fun.

[dudebrah69]

wow! i didnt see that you use pro tools! how do you like it? i hear its VERY high end, and all the big studios use it.

are you working in a big studio?

send me a personal message if you want to be my gearslutz friend.

[AllAboutTone]

I used to collect mini Sprup bottles from The Cracker Barrel because thats what they serve at your table with pancakes, well i use to put Jim Beam in those as well incase i wanted to take some ole Jim with me out and about, well my wife fixed waffles one morning and my 12 yr old got what he thought was a mini sprup bottle and away he poured and took a bite, and went wooooooooooooo and threw it in the trash....a good one...lol

[Haddox]

I had a fiddle player over working on my own stuff and he was brilliant.
He'd learned the song, he had his fills worked out and my job was gravy as it often is with musicians of his caliber. Anyway, we did a couple of takes and he nailed them. I, very deadpan, said, "can you do that again, I wasn't recording. I thought I was so cute. He missed the joke and said, "sure man, roll" and proceeded to nail it again.

[GoldenOne]

I wasn't very happy when my guitarist called and woke me up this morning to say that they accidentally deleted my drum takes that kept me up until 2:30 in the morning to get perfect. When he did say April Fools I was so very relieved as I was looking forward to a day of recording guitar.

[James Lehmann]

There's the legendary one about the tape op who told Steely Dan he'd just erased the multitrack of their best song ever that had taken months to record...

...unfortunately that one was no joke!

[steffo]

Not an Aprils joke but pretty funny:

I recorded a band, it was their firts record and they were very pleased with the sound and all. We recorded in a big house with great equipment for 10 days. Most of the stuff was recorded live. A retro sounding band with a very good singer (a really great band to though..)

When the first mix was done (we hired a great mixer that had a week to finish the record) we pitched the lead vocals 10 cents up 15 seconds into the song. It sounded kind of awful but still good enough to be a pretty bad take. Since it was their "best" song and the first one mixed, the band were pretty excited and gathered around the console with high expectations.

The singer sat in a chair with his hands covering his head so I couldn't see his face but the drummers and the bass players face expression was priceless. At first they started to turn left/right as if they were fooled by the accoustics in the room or something, then they kind of almost opened their mouth to say something during a minute or so. Since they had no chance to re-record the stuff they probably hoped they imagined the lousy pitch. Then a the singer sang a long note in a very sensitive part of the song and the hight pitch really ruined the moment which caused me and the mixerguy to almost fall to the floor laughing.

A great joke if there's much money involved, a style that absolutely can't be autotuned and a situation where there's no time to re-record;)