What are your musical pet peeves?

[Oldrottenhead]

in many of me songs i have to redo my vox cos you can hear mrs h shouting will you take those expletive deleted headphones off and listen to me! but more commonly you can hear her laughing from the next room, i leave that on most songs.

[Greeny]

I don't have too many pet peeves. The way I figure it, I'm the boss of my own little MBR studio, and what I say goes, lol. So nothing gets onto my recordings that I haven't personally approved, tested or come up with by sheer accident.

That said, I don't like the sound of the STD2 drum kit on the MBR one little bit.

And I wish the MBR had different time signatures and rhythm variations, 'cause I've milked the f*ckers dry.

As for reverb, when it comes to backing vocals it's a very useful tool. To use a painting analogy, reverb allows you to do a watercolour wash in the background that doesn't detract from the foreground. Or something like that, lol. Anyway, it just helps balance the mix for me. Not keen on reverbed guitars though (apart from when I add an extreme panned 'wash' of acoustic guitar). The pre-set at '15' on the MBR is just about right generally.

Does being annoyed that I can't right songs like Brian Wilson count as a pet sound peeve? lol

[Ferryman]

That said, I don't like the sound of the STD2 drum kit on the MBR one little bit.

And I wish the MBR had different time signatures and rhythm variations, 'cause I've milked the f*ckers dry.

Serious post here - agree with Tim. That drum machine on the MBR and drum prgramming in general. That limits my creativity because I really don't have the time to program complex drum tracks on the various drum machines I have. I tend to stick to simple time signatures and repeating drum patterns because of that which is a frustration.

BTW Tim, you do a fantsatic job of keeping your songs sounding different within the limited confines of the MBR drum patterns.

Cheers,

Nigel

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

Hi All, nice to know that I'm not the only one who gets ideas for the best song ever written only to forget them by the time you get back to a recorder, and have you noticed how much better you can play in your head. I can play like Skunk Baxter till I pick up a guitar. My only real peeve is I'm always a little worried about political comment in music, it's a bit like subliminal advertising, it sneaks up on you.  Willie

[Tony W]

After continued reading here, I have decided that I do in fact have pet peeves.

I do all my recording downstairs in the basement, acoustically it's a shit spot. I can't really record anything with a mic, because you never know when the dogs are going to tromp across the floor. I got some vacuum cleaner action on my last post... No Geir, I wasn't playing drums on the Vac.

The one thing that may lead to incarceration is the significant other. She comes down to my domain, and starts saying my name, then gets louder and louder until I acknowledge. Keep in mind, at some point I realize that she's in my super secret hideout, and I've chose to ignore her, hoping she'd go away. NOPE. She continues, until I lose concentration on this majestic piece that I'm 30 seconds from finishing..... I take the cans off, look at her in disgust, and in the most vile tone I can muster I ask...


WHAAAAAAAAT?
She looks like a dog that's been kicked yet continues with her question.

ARE YOU RECORDING???

That's it, that's the "switch" that may lead to domestic violence. I'm certainly not down in the basement with wires dangling from me like an abandoned server room because I'm trying to extract semen from a cat. No, I think it should look fairly obvious that I'm at least not in the mood to be bothered.

[Greeny]

I'm certainly not down in the basement with wires dangling from me like an abandoned server room because I'm trying to extract semen from a cat. No, I think it should look fairly obvious that I'm at least not in the mood to be bothered.

That made me laugh out loud!

Reminds me of this. Actually, this sums up a lot of relationships, lol (luckily not mine  )


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjzwLyLqLdA

[Greeny]

This is what I'm like when I'm disturbed. A bit, anyway 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLI7MLZYPBg

[Tony W]

I'm probably in the minority here, but I gotta ask.... Who thinks Jack Torrence was actually the victim in the horror film? I don't think Wendy had it nearly as bad as Jack. I think Wendy and that creepy little REDRUM kid were the villians.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxTfw8QgLIQ

[Oldrottenhead]

the following videos are an analogy of whats going on in my head when i get interrupted just as i am about to finish recording a really difficult part.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zSiRH8tzD4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYUB6zjutN0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd9Ti88EX8c



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtNRrBTkilU

you get the jist

[Gritter]

This is what I'm like when I'm disturbed. A bit, anyway 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLI7MLZYPBg

That's the best!