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Originally Posted by markblasco  When I was going to school for audio, half of the seniors there could barely get all of the equipment to work. Getting a band in the studio was a wakeup call for a lot of them, because it showed them just how little they knew. Unfortunately, any time a student at a school asks you to come record, you have to go in expecting to be volunteering your time, and in the end should not expect to get anything worthwhile recorded. For the student running the session it will be a great learning experience (which is what an assignment like this is supposed to be), but for the band coming in to record it is iffy at best. |
I get that it's free recording in return for their learning. That's cool, no problem with that.
The thing was, the student running the session told us he was pretty experienced. I took that with a pinch of salt, but still.
Because he could not solve a technical issue (the headphone mix was screwed), he should have just said, sorry I can't fix this, we will have to do something else or end the session. I don't think they'd been instructed on what to do under these circumstances, and so I think that somehow he had the mindset of just try to ignore it and let the band deal with it.
These weren't just kids, they were guys in their early 20's, so on a communication level they should have got the teen-shy thing out of the way.
Next time I'll make sure the session is supervised!
