Hi, I have come to crossroads with a client due to the situation I would like to ask your opinion about.
We started our collaboration when the client sent me prerecorded tracks with a request to mix the song. I fixed what was needed and sent the first mix; received a comment stating “great, now we start polishing the nuances but that’s what we’re going to do together”. It ended up with the client sitting next to me asking what plugins do I use, why, why exactly those settings, why do I work in a way I do, why don’t I use methods he uses; “let’s open the drums, now please open guitars - what is that track?” etc. Then we reached the point when I told him to send over his processed vocal tracks as nothing I was doing was good enough (wrong reverb, wrong compressor, wrong placement etc.). “No, let’s work with the tracks we have in this project”. Then we started discussing what exactly is needed in the end and I asked why are we exercising here if all you need is as in your demo? “No, I don’t need as in the demo” was his answer and in the next moment he’s opening his laptop again and telling me to listen to his reverb. There was no session I was able to work alone. Whatever I did on my own I had to show and explain in the next session.
What would you, guys, do? How would you react, handle the situation?
Thanks in advance.
Edgars