Happy Pills

[Roy]

Was not being defensive.....was just pointing out the choices in this mix. When guitars are crunchy they tend to just be annoying so may as well not make them even more annoying - after all there is no way to decrunch them and reamp them. DI's should be mandatory on pain of death.

Pet hates:
- Orange Amp crunch
- Open chords with Orange Amp crunch
- Cursing Vocalists (sorry not going to edit or de-ess you as no-one is going to listen to you after the first curse word)
- N0 Di's
- Drummers who finish every run with a cymbal crash even when it makes no sense
- out of tune backing vocals
- Mandolins
- Singers who think they can play Madolin or violin (Please show me your Music Degree)
- Bleed in Vocal Track which sounds like a full drum kit even when the singer is singing

Ha. But I like Orange Amps! And cursing and hate DIs (not really hate but dislike. The less I have to dictate a band's sound the better)
Agreed on mandolins.

But on the list the "out of tune" backing vocals really jumped out of me. It brought back a lot of memories of local bands and their first time in the studio and they'd have a decent song and did a decent job performing it and then the last thing they'd want to do was add BGVs done by other players in the band who couldn't sing and have never sung before. IT just ruined everything. This was mostly either back on tape or when we moved to Pro Tools there was still a stigma against autotune. I could rarely convince them to just have the lead singer do it. "But that's how we do it live!" Yeah, but you don't double track all the guitars live! That vocal flange won't be happening at the local venue. Sorry to rant.

Anyway, kids today. Get off my lawn.