Signal to noise ratio: The amount of usable signal as compared to garbage the shitty musician is playing.
Author: admin
I’ve come up with some rules for the “rock & roll handbook” in all these years dealing with flaky musicians…. Here are a few:
1. Recording always takes longer than you expect.
2. Don’t schedule your CD release party before you have your CD’s in hand!
3. Don’t tell your significant other when you will be home from the studio.
4. Don’t bring your significant other to the studio.
5. Don’t name your band something that is too hard to spell or pronounce
6. Don’t spell your band name wrong
7. Don’t make your logo so complex that nobody can decipher what it is.
I had a metal band in one time and the drummer had a 16″ floor tom converted to a snare drum! He freaking put snare strainers on a 16″ floor tom…
During the mix he posed the question: “Can you make that sound more like a snare?”!!!!!
WTF?
Me: Dude, there’s no mic on my snare
Bonehead sound man: Those tom mics will pick up the snare
Me: NO! I want a mic on my snare!
BSM: If I mic the snare, the snare strainers will cause a feedback loop.
Bass player: Dude, if you spent as much money at sound school as you did on tatoos and putting metal spikes in your face, you’d be a hell of a sound man.
A “rapper” was admiring my console just last week…
“Look at all those knobs…You must be considerably perversed to work that shit.”
Then 30 seconds later…
“….it can self-capacitate itself.”