but I would doubt that many of them give the whole project file with all their settings to their clients. They don't.  There was a recent poll of full time engineers (mostly in Nashville) on a private board I belong to, and none of them (who participated) do it... unless they get paid extra. Mostly because they charge premium rates and they despise the idea of someone tweaking a mix they did and taking credit.That's why I made the distinction between simple project files and the project file of the final mix. Two entirely different things. |
CPhoenix wroteNeed to establish this in the beginning going forward, however I'm sure you're well aware of that now. In regards to your comments thank you for assuming I have no other clients. In fact I have others including one recording right now. The only reason this came up was because the leader of the band was a friend. I would not give the project and song files to anyone else but felt trapped in this circumstance. Maybe I should have just went all business on him like he apparently did with me and said no and only gave him the raw files. |
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Moral of the story. Don't work cheap for friends and hold to your standard policies in all cases!
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xzb6np wroteMoral of the story. Don't work cheap for friends and hold to your standard policies in all cases! So true this! One of the policy's of sales is to be friendly but don't be friends. Friends always want it cheap or for nothing. If you make all your customers friends you would go out of business. To this I would add: For friends either charge them double or charge them nothing at all.
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