Patchy engineering performance can be frustrating..
Its a bummer when overal production quality can be 'hit or miss'
Some people dont suffer from this and they are lucky.. I bet some cant understand what we are talking about..
To fix it (cause I can suffer from "patchy sonics" on productions)
I am definetly going to try getting up old (good) DAW drum track sessions up of bands - to A/B with the new sessions of the SAME band returning for more work.
Why progress with the session if the the drums arent at LEAST as good sounding as that bands last session..??
Its of importance for my studio to address this - as folks come in to do 3 tracks, return to do more & again... thats far more common than folks arriving to do a whole album.. stuff done here BECOMES an album... gradually...
I can miss things like bass drum tuning / padding.. TOTALLY diffferent ballpark snare sounds.. amount of HF on cymbals - to me there is A HELL OF A LOT that can be different from one session to another.. (and the bands havent the ear for this at all)
Some folks can crank out generic sounds day after day.. not me..
I think carefull checks AT THE EARLY STAGE OF A PRODUCTION is the key....
That's my plan anyhow...
Yup... GOOOOD topic..
P.S I think my background of 20 + years of working in studios with no instruments or back line provided and just doing the best with what ever gear the band brings in has something to do with all this... dunno....