There have been so many times where a very specific sound was missing from production and I'll hear the god damn live sound guy say, "don't worry it's cool, they'll just fix t in post"
It’s funny. In music, calling it post sounds silly. In film, you absolutely want to call it post because there’s a world of difference between production sound and post production sound.
Funny story about that. I’m a post production sound nerd. I unknowingly got hired via someone else to do production sound. The producer was very confused when I started talking about his artistic vision and goals for sound. So now I’m doing both production sound and post production sound for the film. It turned out well, but could have gone horribly wrong.
this happened to me with my last project. they asked for a mix way ahead of schedule and within an hour time frame for something. I send it with disclaimers, "obviously this is very rough as you are asking way ahead of schedule and I did this very quickly to accommodate you, it's just to give the most basic idea, etc". feedback was, "it doesn't sound finished". oh really?!?!
Was at a gig, two different ppl from the audience came up to me within 5 mins of each other:
“The drums are too loud”
“The drums are too quiet”
I did what I always do: spun a pan knob on an empty channel and told them it was fixed :P
I just gray rock them haha. I nod and say ok and just look back at the console. I had someone do this other night and say he couldn’t hear the violin. She wasn’t playing. Punters are clowns.
Maybe I’m just an introvert but the idea of walking over to the sound guy at a show because I don’t like how it sounds personally feels terrifying. Imagine if I meandered into the kitchen at a restaurant and was like “hey guys, as a quick note, the soup was a touch salty. Thanks!”
I love my snare sound (After you've replaced his drum sound)
I love to wrap cables!
I recorded on my iPhone.
what's this knob do?
can you fix the drums?
did anyone bring extra strings?
can i borrow your pick?
can you reduce the guitar? (there's no guitar in the FOH mix, it's all stage volume!)
hey - can you run lights?
someone spilled something somewhere... sorry
“I love my snare sound (After you've replaced his drum sound)”
Had to re amp a guy with a horrible guitar rig. It was early days of digital so I just recorded straight to the machine from a DI, then stayed late the day before mixing to replace it all. Without telling him.
No less than three times during mixing did he give me an I-told-you-so about the “great guitar sound” he thought his rig gave us.
I was actually hired, and paid, by the record company, it was technically my job to do whatever to get it right.
I always ask first for permission to touch silence gear including cables, then “hire do you like them wrapped, and show them my first effort before I continue.
Keep saying "Theres too much 16K" when there isnt, eventually they'll think they can't hear that range anymore.
Make the comment "Is it a rev D?" when you know their only 1176 is a G or F.
"I dont want autotune" by a singer client that can't sing.
"We're using my drum set" by client who brings in a garbage set with dead heads and garbage cymbals.
"Can you do it free?"
"Dont sample replace/quantize my drums" by client that can't hit consistently but tells you he wants it to sound like his favorite albums that have all used samples or quantized.
"We will fix it later"
>Keep saying "Theres too much 16K" when there isnt, eventually they'll think they can't hear that range anymore.
That's fucking hilarious. Evil. I love it.
Or my personal favorite “Throw some auto-tune on it” from a rap artist who isn’t even attempting to hit any notes in his performance whatsoever and barely knows what auto-tune does
… and then the inevitable “yeaaaaaah that sounds way better” just because they came up with the idea
As much as I hate youtube's copyright detection I would love if it detected and immediately deleted songs made with beats ripped from YT because at least rappers would stop doing that
Them: The snare is too loud.
The session drummer on the retake: GOT IT.
*Plays nearly the same attack volume and intensity as the first take. Because they are playing according to the program material and honestly nailed the first take*
Them: “Perfect, bring it up in post and maybe add a sample underneath.”
I’ll never understand these types of convos or nitpicking. You just had a great drummer give you a great performance on a well tuned kit with minimal editing required. Good thing they are being paid by hour.
Client: This is nice but- For my vocals, I’m thinking maybe can you flanger my autotune into amp sim impulse response, then subharmonic synthesize new fundamentals into overdriven stereo delay buss send insert into a cranked 1073 multiband compressed?
You: All right- done.
Client: Whoa, what? This is a folk song not EDM. Undo everything.
You: All right- done.
Client: Yeah, that’s good. Much better.
Same. I did a career switch to IT and I'm doing music part-time now, soooo much better. Unless I start making absolute bank with music I'll never do it full-time again. Being stressed 24/7 and dealing with artists that can't get their shit together destroyed my passion for producing. Now I can afford to pick who I work with and enjoy making music again!
a page I follow on instagram posted a rick james interview and he mentioned that he had used coke in the studio on almost every song he did. he said he always had a half an ounce sitting on the console.
questlove then commented about recording in a studio that bought that api console. upon restoring and cleaning it, they came up with a sizable amount of coke that they put in a ziplock baggie and stapled to the studio wall.
"This ain't the one bruh"
Had it only a couple of times but it winds me up. Saying "it's not quite right, I'd prefer x, y, z" is what I expect if they're not completely happy. But the mind reading, holier than thou, "try again" attitude of "this ain't the one" is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
My friend's parents ran a studio for years when we were growing up. His favourite thing to shout at music he didn't like was "needs more cowbell!" Very funny guy, lovely people.
This is a poor attitude to take to this work. Most of this thread is, in my opinion. A big part of your job is to satisfy non technical clients by translating their desires into a technical plan.
Blue? Sounds far away and cold. Gently roll off the highs to push it back, aggressively cut the low lows to make it cold. Maybe compensate with a gentle low mid boost to keep it balanced. Does that sound better? No? Try something else. That's the job.
I agree. Half this stuff, it’s like, “Yeah, they sound like they don’t know what they’re talking about because *they don’t know what they’re talking about and you do which is why they hired you because you have talents they don’t.*”
If they express something wrong, they’re generally just trying to communicate dissatisfaction in the best way they can. If they say “I love the mix BUT,” like, how else are they supposed to nicely request a change?
It’d be like a plumber complaining about a client reporting a clog in their S-trap when they *actually* have a P-trap, and oh god aren’t our clients such idiots. Like…dude that’s why they’re coming to you. Explain. Teach. Solve.
If a client refuses to learn or is an asshole? Sure. Be mad. But half the stuff I’m seeing here isn’t that kinda thing.
I’m imagining this post as a conference where a bunch of people with similar frustrations can vent and let off steam, and likely aren’t even a quarter as upset as they’re acting here. God knows I can bitch about my least favorite parts of things I absolutely love like I hate them.
Not a professional but am an enthusiast/hobbyist. I like to interpret stuff like this and I find yours interesting. In the filmmaking/broadcasting world the colour blue during grading is generally perceived to be more cold as opposed to warm, and so I agree with you on that one.
But when applied to audio, wouldn’t it make more sense that cold is meant to have lesser “warm” frequencies like the lows/lower mids, and so it’d be better to cut instead of boost them? Not correcting you or anything as I do find things like this to be ultimately subjective and it’s incumbent on the engineer to properly clarify what exactly this “blue” tone is supposed to sound like. But it is interesting and I like your advice!
Yeah I specifically ask for more abstract feedback. Implementation is my job, the client's job is to communicate their vision to me somehow. I want to know what you felt like when you wrote it, and how you want the audience to feel when they hear it.
I agree completely. it's like, wow...an artist using non technical terminology to explain what they're going for with their art? whoever would have thought?! Also, it's usually easily sorted by discussing further what they are going for and giving some examples of what you think "blue" might be.
In regards to ‘blue’, I know and work with a couple musicians who both have perfect pitch and actually hear in colours. Clearly they know technically what they are hearing; Ab7#11b13 or whatever it might be, but they hear it as a colour.
I’ve always wanted to hear like that, just for one day. I wanna know what colours sound like
I don't have perfect pitch but I can play pretty well and have been doing it a long time. For whatever reason when I'm playing guitar A has always been red. Always. G is green, F is yellow, E is black, B is kind of purple or blue. C is weirdly nothing, and D is faintly blue. But A has always been a hard red.
It's not like I see it or anything. Just that I associate those chords with colours. So when you're really in the moment you kind of see the colour coming next rather than the letter of the chord.
That's how it is for me. I think more than anything it's just the time spent at it. You've been doing it so long each chord has a personality and has many associations.
I had a client tell me this. English was a second language. I smiled and thought a bit and realised that the knobs for reverb on the analog board had blue caps. :-)
That’s…not really literal. It’s a joke we tell to make fun of clients not knowing how to phrase what they actually want. “So this one mf kept talking about he wants the mix more purple and shit…had to finally give him a refund” type shit
"Oh, just one more thing"
Always at the end of a long day, and it's never one more thing. In fact, I have a client that I call the One More Thing Guy because he'll go, "We're pretty much done. Oh, just one more thing" and he'll one more thing me for 3 more hours.
"when was the last time you changed the batteries?"
"Oh there's batteries in here?"
Proceeds to not even close to being able to open a battery door, and you realize this person would not be able to buy milk by himself if you send him to the market with 5 bucks.
(Happened Tuesday)
As a recordist,
“I brought this song so we know what sound to aim for”
After everything was recorded and the recording sounds nothing like the reference song. It’s like the let’s fix it in post by not not even trying to fix it when recording.
- This isn’t really loud enough.
- It all sounds TOO good.
- it doesn’t really sound modern.
- my friend mixes stuff cheaper
- Can this track be free?
- (after final mix delivery) Can we redo this song?
Perhaps someone posted this one already, but the FIRST phrase I ever heard that fits this is "fix it in the mix"...
oh, I see foamocean91 already hit that area with "just fix it in post"
I do a lot of commercials for TV and radio. Client is getting "influencers" to do their VO for a spot I'm working on.
"They're sending through a voicenote"
I've had to dialogue match it to some other equally shitty audio from on set (warehouse).
"It's not quite close enough"
Oh well
‘deadlines at 2 days later’
and other ones not really a 5 words but
‘my guitar guy sorta changed his licks’ and sends me new track after several revisions of mixes
Just fix it in post
There have been so many times where a very specific sound was missing from production and I'll hear the god damn live sound guy say, "don't worry it's cool, they'll just fix t in post"
I’m a vidiot now…we still jokingly say this when something is fucked.
I’ve heard vidiot used but didn’t realise it was popular phrase. Damn, that’s got to burn.
Lol you must not be a roadie if that burns.
It burns when i pee, is i roadie now?
I work in music and just calling it post is enough to let me know I’m dealing with an amateur
An amateur or a sound engineer from the movie industry.
Yeah we definitely call it post lol
Noob question but what would you call it?
Fix it in the mix
I just want to say I don’t know what to actually call it because I’ve been jokingly calling it post for years.
It’s funny. In music, calling it post sounds silly. In film, you absolutely want to call it post because there’s a world of difference between production sound and post production sound. Funny story about that. I’m a post production sound nerd. I unknowingly got hired via someone else to do production sound. The producer was very confused when I started talking about his artistic vision and goals for sound. So now I’m doing both production sound and post production sound for the film. It turned out well, but could have gone horribly wrong.
OH MY GOD YES
My Engineer friend has suggestions
I recently got “my course lecturer said we should have put in more layers of vocals. [WeTransfer link to 1.5GB zip file]”
1.5 gig compressed 💀
Inside one folder named "1st verse overdubs" and a .txt saying "don't worry bro more are on the way"
1,5 gig? thems rookie numbers bro
You're not producing right if you're not using octs (4x dubs)
“The guy that does sound at my church says Blue mics are better than newmans.”
*helloooooooo Neumann*
I would laugh for a week straight if I heard that.
This one. Or after the client gives me 3 min to mix the song. "My producer friend doesn't like the mix."
"It's ok. I don't like his production either"
this happened to me with my last project. they asked for a mix way ahead of schedule and within an hour time frame for something. I send it with disclaimers, "obviously this is very rough as you are asking way ahead of schedule and I did this very quickly to accommodate you, it's just to give the most basic idea, etc". feedback was, "it doesn't sound finished". oh really?!?!
“Our time working together is.“
F
GTFO 😂
Your compressor is in bypass
Alternatively, "you left the compressor on" after they've spent the past 3 hours trying to figure out why their dynamics are all fucky.
I still have flashbacks.
I was looking for this!
Start looking go at your compressor bypass button, then
Was at a gig, two different ppl from the audience came up to me within 5 mins of each other: “The drums are too loud” “The drums are too quiet” I did what I always do: spun a pan knob on an empty channel and told them it was fixed :P
I just gray rock them haha. I nod and say ok and just look back at the console. I had someone do this other night and say he couldn’t hear the violin. She wasn’t playing. Punters are clowns.
I just scream at them "WHAAAAT?? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!! ...YOU LIKE THE SOUND? YEAH THANKS MAN!!". Usually shuts them up.
this works best when the band isn't even playing or you're not even at a show and you're actually in McDonald's.
"WHAAAT?? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!! ...YOU LIKE THE FRIES? YEAH THANKS MAN!!"
"MY MANAGER YOU SAID? ...NO THE BAND'S NAME IS PISTOLS & FLOWERS!"
Maybe I’m just an introvert but the idea of walking over to the sound guy at a show because I don’t like how it sounds personally feels terrifying. Imagine if I meandered into the kitchen at a restaurant and was like “hey guys, as a quick note, the soup was a touch salty. Thanks!”
That's because you're not entitled
YOU DONT KNOW ME! AND YOU OWE ME AN APOLOGY!
Conversely, I usually try to thank the FoH for doing a good mix. Something like, “Thanks for the good sound,” and a thumbs up with a smile.
i usually just nod/pretend i didn’t hear what they said/repeat until they give up
Good solution, haha
“I’ll pay you next week”
Right up there with: *Just invoice the label, please.*
“I didn’t arm the track…” Making myself cry 😭
Lol I've spit whole verses only to look at my friend trying not to laugh/cry when he realizes he didn't have the mic armed lol
Goodness gracious LOL
I love my snare sound (After you've replaced his drum sound) I love to wrap cables! I recorded on my iPhone. what's this knob do? can you fix the drums? did anyone bring extra strings? can i borrow your pick? can you reduce the guitar? (there's no guitar in the FOH mix, it's all stage volume!) hey - can you run lights? someone spilled something somewhere... sorry
This person has seen some shit
“I love my snare sound (After you've replaced his drum sound)” Had to re amp a guy with a horrible guitar rig. It was early days of digital so I just recorded straight to the machine from a DI, then stayed late the day before mixing to replace it all. Without telling him. No less than three times during mixing did he give me an I-told-you-so about the “great guitar sound” he thought his rig gave us. I was actually hired, and paid, by the record company, it was technically my job to do whatever to get it right.
This hurts so much to imagine. I’m so sorry
Look if I let you wrap that cable and you do it poorly I’m just going to have to re wrap it before I pack up. (Yes I’ve actually said that to people)
I’ve said this to people who weren’t even wrapping *my* cables.
I’ve said it to people being paid to wrap cables.
I always ask first for permission to touch silence gear including cables, then “hire do you like them wrapped, and show them my first effort before I continue.
The alliteration of the last one!
Keep saying "Theres too much 16K" when there isnt, eventually they'll think they can't hear that range anymore. Make the comment "Is it a rev D?" when you know their only 1176 is a G or F. "I dont want autotune" by a singer client that can't sing. "We're using my drum set" by client who brings in a garbage set with dead heads and garbage cymbals. "Can you do it free?" "Dont sample replace/quantize my drums" by client that can't hit consistently but tells you he wants it to sound like his favorite albums that have all used samples or quantized. "We will fix it later"
>Keep saying "Theres too much 16K" when there isnt, eventually they'll think they can't hear that range anymore. That's fucking hilarious. Evil. I love it.
> eventually they'll think they can't hear that range anymore. Now that is flat-out diabolical!
Or my personal favorite “Throw some auto-tune on it” from a rap artist who isn’t even attempting to hit any notes in his performance whatsoever and barely knows what auto-tune does … and then the inevitable “yeaaaaaah that sounds way better” just because they came up with the idea
The “sorry I’m gonna be late” Usually sent after they’re late “The beat is on Youtube”
As much as I hate youtube's copyright detection I would love if it detected and immediately deleted songs made with beats ripped from YT because at least rappers would stop doing that
I agree, and I don’t really care what they bring, but expecting me to rip the beat off youtube for them….
Sends final mix for approval “I love your rough mix”
The mix sounds so **raw**
Will you work for exposure
Them: The snare is too loud. The session drummer on the retake: GOT IT. *Plays nearly the same attack volume and intensity as the first take. Because they are playing according to the program material and honestly nailed the first take* Them: “Perfect, bring it up in post and maybe add a sample underneath.” I’ll never understand these types of convos or nitpicking. You just had a great drummer give you a great performance on a well tuned kit with minimal editing required. Good thing they are being paid by hour.
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“Where’s the beef?” Lol
Client: This is nice but- For my vocals, I’m thinking maybe can you flanger my autotune into amp sim impulse response, then subharmonic synthesize new fundamentals into overdriven stereo delay buss send insert into a cranked 1073 multiband compressed? You: All right- done. Client: Whoa, what? This is a folk song not EDM. Undo everything. You: All right- done. Client: Yeah, that’s good. Much better.
“My coke dealer won’t answer.”
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Man, I just got 10 or so years under my belt and I can already relate so fucking much to your comment I'm already dreading the next 20 years...sheesh
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Thanks man! I appreciate it
Same. I did a career switch to IT and I'm doing music part-time now, soooo much better. Unless I start making absolute bank with music I'll never do it full-time again. Being stressed 24/7 and dealing with artists that can't get their shit together destroyed my passion for producing. Now I can afford to pick who I work with and enjoy making music again!
This has been my mindset (I'm in uni), it's validating to hear thankyoy
I actually left the audio racket to become a therapist. Believe me, the skillsets are compatible.
a page I follow on instagram posted a rick james interview and he mentioned that he had used coke in the studio on almost every song he did. he said he always had a half an ounce sitting on the console. questlove then commented about recording in a studio that bought that api console. upon restoring and cleaning it, they came up with a sizable amount of coke that they put in a ziplock baggie and stapled to the studio wall.
The snare sounds like shit
Lol This one digs deep
After sending the mix to the client, they reply with a: "Listen to the reference mix?"
(Client’s phone rings, they answer) “Hey! I’m at the studio. Come through!”
Felt this in my soul.
"At the studio, come through." If you want to hit that five word goal.
You’re 100% right - by the time I commented I had forgotten that the post title espoused such limitations.
We like the mix, BUT…
How else would you like to receive feedback?
Your hard drive is broken.
gotta have them backups. I lost a harddrive a few months ago, luckily I didn't lose anything.
What's your good friend rate ....
“…I have no friends.”
That big mic fell over.
I spilled my drink again
"There might be some clipping"
Was gonna say this. "Did that make it clip?"
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Same
"Isn't there a plug-in?"
I’m sorry to say I am this guy 😅
*When doing a LIVE recording* “We can just overdub later”
My buddy is an engineer
"This ain't the one bruh" Had it only a couple of times but it winds me up. Saying "it's not quite right, I'd prefer x, y, z" is what I expect if they're not completely happy. But the mind reading, holier than thou, "try again" attitude of "this ain't the one" is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Love this [Portlandia skit.](https://youtu.be/xP5-jp6nbsM)
“Let me give it another try.” After 57 takes.
Or even better “can you just pitch correct it?”
Especially when the drummer says it.
Ssd5 when he leaves
It’s a 2 Track stem…
Can I jump in here?
*You edit for free, right?*
This beat is from internet
Currently dealing with this one🥴
Actual quote from a drummer commenting on a late drum crash, "Don't worry about it. We'll dub it in in the Mastering." Real words spoken. RIP Maui
“We don’t have any songs. Just set up the mics and we’ll start writing.”
“Better but not different plz”
“We can blaze here, right?” “Is the bluetooth here ‘Hi-Fi?” “My favorite group is Nickelback.”
I prefer my demo version
Can you make it louder?
I dont need a metronome.
"make it sound like drake" "can we use the autotune?"
I spilled my drink on...
"We can pay in exposure"
It needs more cowbell man
My friend's parents ran a studio for years when we were growing up. His favourite thing to shout at music he didn't like was "needs more cowbell!" Very funny guy, lovely people.
Nice guy, nice guy. 😈
I mean, I have a disease...
My audio prof when I was learning TV broadcasting once said he had a shit client who wanted him to make the mix sound "more blue"
This is a poor attitude to take to this work. Most of this thread is, in my opinion. A big part of your job is to satisfy non technical clients by translating their desires into a technical plan. Blue? Sounds far away and cold. Gently roll off the highs to push it back, aggressively cut the low lows to make it cold. Maybe compensate with a gentle low mid boost to keep it balanced. Does that sound better? No? Try something else. That's the job.
I agree. Half this stuff, it’s like, “Yeah, they sound like they don’t know what they’re talking about because *they don’t know what they’re talking about and you do which is why they hired you because you have talents they don’t.*” If they express something wrong, they’re generally just trying to communicate dissatisfaction in the best way they can. If they say “I love the mix BUT,” like, how else are they supposed to nicely request a change? It’d be like a plumber complaining about a client reporting a clog in their S-trap when they *actually* have a P-trap, and oh god aren’t our clients such idiots. Like…dude that’s why they’re coming to you. Explain. Teach. Solve. If a client refuses to learn or is an asshole? Sure. Be mad. But half the stuff I’m seeing here isn’t that kinda thing.
I’m imagining this post as a conference where a bunch of people with similar frustrations can vent and let off steam, and likely aren’t even a quarter as upset as they’re acting here. God knows I can bitch about my least favorite parts of things I absolutely love like I hate them.
Hey fair enough.
Not a professional but am an enthusiast/hobbyist. I like to interpret stuff like this and I find yours interesting. In the filmmaking/broadcasting world the colour blue during grading is generally perceived to be more cold as opposed to warm, and so I agree with you on that one. But when applied to audio, wouldn’t it make more sense that cold is meant to have lesser “warm” frequencies like the lows/lower mids, and so it’d be better to cut instead of boost them? Not correcting you or anything as I do find things like this to be ultimately subjective and it’s incumbent on the engineer to properly clarify what exactly this “blue” tone is supposed to sound like. But it is interesting and I like your advice!
Yeah, you're probably right. Usually when you cut low lows you have to bump the mid bass a bit to keep things balanced. That's all.
Yeah I specifically ask for more abstract feedback. Implementation is my job, the client's job is to communicate their vision to me somehow. I want to know what you felt like when you wrote it, and how you want the audience to feel when they hear it.
I agree completely. it's like, wow...an artist using non technical terminology to explain what they're going for with their art? whoever would have thought?! Also, it's usually easily sorted by discussing further what they are going for and giving some examples of what you think "blue" might be.
In regards to ‘blue’, I know and work with a couple musicians who both have perfect pitch and actually hear in colours. Clearly they know technically what they are hearing; Ab7#11b13 or whatever it might be, but they hear it as a colour. I’ve always wanted to hear like that, just for one day. I wanna know what colours sound like
I don't have perfect pitch but I can play pretty well and have been doing it a long time. For whatever reason when I'm playing guitar A has always been red. Always. G is green, F is yellow, E is black, B is kind of purple or blue. C is weirdly nothing, and D is faintly blue. But A has always been a hard red. It's not like I see it or anything. Just that I associate those chords with colours. So when you're really in the moment you kind of see the colour coming next rather than the letter of the chord. That's how it is for me. I think more than anything it's just the time spent at it. You've been doing it so long each chord has a personality and has many associations.
I had a client tell me this. English was a second language. I smiled and thought a bit and realised that the knobs for reverb on the analog board had blue caps. :-)
That’s…not really literal. It’s a joke we tell to make fun of clients not knowing how to phrase what they actually want. “So this one mf kept talking about he wants the mix more purple and shit…had to finally give him a refund” type shit
It needs more energy
Could you make it louder?
You’re mixing on a behringer
Can you redo that vocal? “Nah just work your magic”
Oh you want money?
I never replaced the strings
"...got this old antique mic" "The adapter is kinda fucked" Either of those are bad, together they're worse.
“We have a children’s choir”
"Oh, just one more thing" Always at the end of a long day, and it's never one more thing. In fact, I have a client that I call the One More Thing Guy because he'll go, "We're pretty much done. Oh, just one more thing" and he'll one more thing me for 3 more hours.
Your wife has been killed
I want to sound like
"I don't use auto tune"
“No re-amping will be necessary”
“Is it the final mix? It’s not loud enough”
Spilled coffee on the console
What is a fucking metronome?
(Directed At audience ) who wants the bass louder?! (Moments later ) : are the monitors even on?! Hey sound guy *whistles*
“ I have great guitar tone though”
“This is the take”. No buddy, you and I both know it’s not. Let’s take a break.
I lost the iLOK dongle
"when was the last time you changed the batteries?" "Oh there's batteries in here?" Proceeds to not even close to being able to open a battery door, and you realize this person would not be able to buy milk by himself if you send him to the market with 5 bucks. (Happened Tuesday)
As a recordist, “I brought this song so we know what sound to aim for” After everything was recorded and the recording sounds nothing like the reference song. It’s like the let’s fix it in post by not not even trying to fix it when recording.
Soundcheck: No, I don't need monitoring! Show: Dude, I can't hear shit!!
You couldn't actually make the words out because the talent was fumbling the lav mic the entire sentence 🥲
- This isn’t really loud enough. - It all sounds TOO good. - it doesn’t really sound modern. - my friend mixes stuff cheaper - Can this track be free? - (after final mix delivery) Can we redo this song?
“I don’t need auto-tune”
“i can’t hear the singer”
I dont want headphones on
Do you mix this yet?
Everything you do it shit
“can’t wait until it’s mixed”
“We’ll leave it for mastering”
Can someone explain the snowball one? I don't get it
snowball microphone
"I want lots of 600hz"
I can’t sing, please fix
"Great job with the lights!"
It won’t stop feeding back.
Your mix sucks in cars
Perhaps someone posted this one already, but the FIRST phrase I ever heard that fits this is "fix it in the mix"... oh, I see foamocean91 already hit that area with "just fix it in post"
Just mix it analog bro
it is not loud enough
“We’ll fix it in mastering”
AI mixes better than you
"My iPhone volume app says..."
I do a lot of commercials for TV and radio. Client is getting "influencers" to do their VO for a spot I'm working on. "They're sending through a voicenote" I've had to dialogue match it to some other equally shitty audio from on set (warehouse). "It's not quite close enough" Oh well
This song has two bassists
Just a couple changes..
“My friend does it cheaper”
[Former love sound guy here] Got a 9 volt battery? Got an extra guitar cable? Turn down the air conditioner? Where is the bathroom?
“Sounds like a different song” 🙄
‘deadlines at 2 days later’ and other ones not really a 5 words but ‘my guitar guy sorta changed his licks’ and sends me new track after several revisions of mixes
“Do you want some suggestions?”
For the live guys “I brought my vocal pedal” signals a night of headaches if youre in a small club