Hayley Is A Hitman Part 2

Hayley Is A Hitman Part 2

So after all the recording it was time to mix, a process that would last almost 6 weeks and ended up badly. In hein sight i should have realised the challenge required to mix such a record in the style and sound they wanted. My reluctance to apply drum triggering and auto tuning dident help the situation.

Many Hours were spent mixing hopelessly googling "How to mix metal Drums" etc etc/. It never got me anywhere. Cheap kits can never be polished up :(. I got the vocals, bass and drums to an ok standard but never got those drums right. bouncing countless demos back and forth with the band only resulted in more annoyance my end. Further more i hadent even realized , There supposed to be synths here??

Putting in over 30 hours just on one songs seemed a lot for nothing , but i was determined to sort it out. Going between pro tools and logic on more then one occasion did no justice. After Some back and forth bouncing and some criticism my end i left the mixing processes to the singer who wanted to mix it. I felt this best given the time energy i no longer had to please people. Little did i realism how much people dont appreciate the things you do. 

Around mid april i asked how the mixing was going only to receive a reply stating the drums sounded so crap that they no longer wanted the recordings. :@ :@. The talk about me recording the album was dropped and little more was heard from them about the music. Adding salt to the wounds i found some more rather rude and just general assholish comments on the bands Wikipedia page. Sadly i cant find the page ( im guessing it was deleted) but i was least impressed. 

It would not be the last time i crossed paths with the band strangely enough :S

 

Things i learnt 

As a learning curve i learn a lot. If you offer people something free dont take the shit, in fact dont even offer it for free. People will find you given time and the contacts. If you think a professional product is going to cost you nothing or expect that from a free offer then your mistaken. I wont lie i enjoyed the recording processes, i enjoyed there music. I still like there music but i wont give them any respect. You couldn't pay me to work with them again.

I guess as a producer your going to work with people who your never going to get on with, its in the job title. Still theres line which i feel was crossed.

 

I guess its time to listen to how far i got with this mix. Its not mastered and i think it may not be the latest or last version but i still feel it deserves a listen.

Enjoy !..!