Things You Never Want Recording Engineers To Say...

[capnsandwich]

I'm here in a studio while the band is mixing their EP and I hear the engineer say, "Uh Oh! What did I just do?" Scary moment indeed.


So let's hear some more phrases that scare you to death in the studio....

 

[CBgaragebassist]

so what did he do?

 

[capnsandwich]

Nothing. He just had something muted. It was the way he said it that had me worried.

 

[Mystic Michael]

"Of course I know how to record the bass! I just run the signal through this here compressor, then crank this here ratio knob up as far as it will go..."

MM

 

[WookieeForLife]

Oops. It's also worse if ur surgen says that.

 

[nightcityburn]

I really like to record live...my biggest pet peeve is not being given the option to track individually or live.

 

[nortonrider]

Things You Never Want Recording Engineers To Say...

"Would you please tell your mom to put her clothes back on and get out of the booth?!"

 

[capnsandwich]

"This is my first time recording so give me a little slack."

 

[bassteban]

'That rendition of Georgia on my mind will very likely cause Ray to rise from the grave, hunt you down & kill you.'

 

[bassbully]

"So ok boy's, those 8 killer tracks we slaved over all day on....."opps... lost em" "Yep" LOL those suckers are long gone. "Say you guys think you have that magic in you again?


I go in to the studio Sunday to cut the first tracks of our new full length

 

[unbridled]

"Phil Spector will be producing this project and we'll be heading to his new studio. I hear it has great natural reverb!"

 

[capnsandwich]

Me: Where is that hum coming from?

Engineer: I don't know

Me: Can we get rid of it when we mix it down?

Engineer: Probably

A few days later during mixing......

Me: There's that hum. Can we take it out.

Engineer: Yeah, hold on let me......wait.....what just happened?

Me: What?

Engineer: Never mind, we lost the hum.......and the drum tracks too.

Me: ....then........then.......then....



(True story. Happened last year at a friend's home studio.)

 

[David Jayne]

"Tell me again what happens if I hit Apple + X?"

 

[BananaKing]

"Can you just re-record your tracks later? I don't know what I hit.........."

 

[WalterBush]

Actual quote from a recording engineer in the days of ADAT;

"Great tambourine overdub. Say, does anyone happen to know which track we recorded the guitar solo on?"

My personal favorite is still, "No, I didn't save! These things are supposed to be crash-proof!"

 

[capnsandwich]

My personal favorite is still, "No, I didn't save! These things are supposed to be crash-proof!"

WOW!!!

 

[unbridled]

About 10 years ago, I had an engineer ask if we could re-do a take (recording live) and he said "Not your fault, mine... I think I got it figured out this time, let's try it and see."

In he defense, he mostly did jingle work with only 1 or 2 performers.

 

[BananaKing]

My personal favorite is still, "No, I didn't save! These things are supposed to be crash-proof!"

I've gotten that one too..........

Not cool.

 

[ric stave]

After the best and only flawless take of the day....

"OK, ready? Let's record it this time."

 

[reno88]

bassist treated as the typical afterthought: "we'll just run the bass direct. you don't mind, do you?". we gotta fight to be heard!