Fibes? When is the producer from the current project going to send up those files to be mixed? The week between X-mas and New Year is like perfect for us.
I'll be more than happy to do your next project for chump change... but plan on bringing like 50-60 songs into the first couple of sit downs as I am a picky bastard!! [self loathing as well but the alcohol works OK to cover that
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JJ, with all due respect, yes, I have taken more than a few credits by the name of Alan Smithee... but I have an issue with the "being in the control room every minute things are being tracked" statement... I would normally rather rip out my teeth than sit through shit like backing vocals [I may write the parts, but I really hate listening to them being recorded]... and shit like lead vocals... most of the time I'll get the sound, tell the singer/engineer (or assistant) what I want recorded... leave them to record it, come back later and either "comp" it, or criticize it (redo some sections), or both... but I'm really not wild about sitting there and watching them go down [hate it actually].
If I'm really tight with the keyboard/guitar players I'll give them a sketch of what I want then come back to see how they've done... again, we'll fix anything that is amiss later on.
I hate the 'mirco managment' production style as much as I hate the 'paper work shuffler' production style. "Hands on oversight" is more my style... give 'em enough rope, but don't let the trap door swing open is kinda the way I like to work.
As for credit... more often than not it's because I work this way that credit is fine... like I said, I don't like to 'micromanage' a project... so if one [or all of them] takes on the 'micromanagement' stuff... Mazel Tov... have a credit.
If the drummer thinks he should have a credit for an arrangement idea he can blow me... but if they're actually part of the overall process, the why not.
By the same token... I really hate it when band's don't want to give me "songwriting" on stuff where I've like written the chorus the bridge and one of 3 verses [or similar]. I had one band that recorded a song I wrote about my the ex-partner in a production company I used to have... the singer changed two lines in the chorus and expected a "co-write" credit!! [turns out he fucked me good and took all the songwriting credit on the song... damn good thing it didn't sell worth a shit or I'd have been VERY pissed off!!]