I do a bit of recording now and then...
Works quite well for my own means, and I'd like to think I've got a pretty good sense of what people want from their music...

SO, I decided to offer my services to the band I was playing bass for at the time. As far as I knew, they loved grunge and hardcore stuff, and were aiming for a sound somewhere around that area. Easy, thinks I, and set about getting drums, guitars etc done, all the while thinking "If I can make this sound ace then there might be a bit of benefit for me in it as well."

Once we're done, I set about mixing it, and tweaking for hours and hours on end, trying to give the whole thing a real sense of vitality and passion (not easy given the somewhat lacklustre performances).

After days of my life have gone to these three songs, I'm done, so I present them the results, and before they've even listened they give me this to work on "yeah, we've decided to get it all recorded at a proper studio instead, so we're not going to use your stuff as it's not professional enough."

Cheers.

They then go on to record everything in a 'proper' studio only to be thrilled with the most piss-weak slice of indie-pop I've ever heard, in a blatant attempt to follow the scene instead of being true to themselves. what's more, they have the cheek to tell me that I didn't really "get what we're trying to do here" because I wasn't into "our kind of music."

Self-important bastards.
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Thu 24 May 2007, 11:10, Reply)