nightflameauto
Well-Known Member
Stuff like this is why I can't trust paid-for services on my creative output. It blows, but if someone decides that they know better what you should sound like than you do? There's no amount of twisting that will get them to hear what you want to hear in it. It hardly ever feels like a collaboration once you hit a point where you realize they aren't getting what you're throwing down. It just ends up feeling like an unnecessary fight.I calmed down, and went back to the track with fresh ears. I think what happened is that the amount of processing going on just fooled me. The track has been run through some amount of a mastering chain, and I think what's throwing me is that everything is smoothed over, in a way. The tone I used was mid-heavy and bite-y, but it's been scooped out and the high end boosted, which is the opposite of what I normally do. It's also compressed with something that smoothed over the dynamics to a shiny level of polish. So what started as a pissed off boosted marshall-esque sound has had a lot of it's character smoothed off, and I was very unprepared for that. My tone is in there, it's just much more polite than I was expecting. The same thing is true of the whole mix, it's a very polite mix. I dunno what to think about it.
Best of luck. Hopefully you can threaten them into submission quickly.