ARGH
Just spent months tracking / mixing a hip hop record. Things started out great. You know, retracked all the vocals so they weren't all distorted and thin sounding, got the tracks to bang and sound big, things felt really good. Played stuff for some friends of mine who do this for a living (as some of you know, my desk jockey job currently keeps me from doing this as full time as i'd like to)
Then BAM! the artist comes in and says 'It sounds too... good' 'can you make it sound like the demos? ' 'the vocals are too 'in your face' ' etc etc.
Ultimately he decided that he wants to just go back to the demo'd vocals, and mix them into the 2 tracks.
Jesus. I think I've officially mixed my last hip hop project.
Anyone else ever run into this situation? How did you deal with it?
Matt
Just spent months tracking / mixing a hip hop record. Things started out great. You know, retracked all the vocals so they weren't all distorted and thin sounding, got the tracks to bang and sound big, things felt really good. Played stuff for some friends of mine who do this for a living (as some of you know, my desk jockey job currently keeps me from doing this as full time as i'd like to)
Then BAM! the artist comes in and says 'It sounds too... good' 'can you make it sound like the demos? ' 'the vocals are too 'in your face' ' etc etc.
Ultimately he decided that he wants to just go back to the demo'd vocals, and mix them into the 2 tracks.
Jesus. I think I've officially mixed my last hip hop project.
Anyone else ever run into this situation? How did you deal with it?
Matt