Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You give the producer what he wants.
This is the real-life decision made by recording engineer Jason Wright.
He owns his own recording and production company.
"The bottom line is that the producer has final control over all the artistic
decisions," Wright says. "The recording engineer's job is to get the sound
where the producer wants it."
Some recording engineers put their own preferences into the music. This
way, the music they record all starts to sound similar.
"We do lots of jazz, a lot of classical, things like that, and before we
were around, a lot of the product that was coming out...sounded like Metallica,"
he says. "You had a jazz band, but the drum kit sounded like it was hard rock.
So, those recording engineers were putting their hard rock preferences into
music that shouldn't have sounded like that."
Also, producers will start to avoid working with you. For Wright, 90 percent
of his business comes from repeat customers, so he can't afford to have displeased
clients. It only takes one person to bad-mouth you around town
to make you lose dozens of gigs.