Diffusion Magazine

Simple question.

Do you turn down work because you think you can't do it ?

What advice could you give me and other guys starting up in this ... Do you think it's good to turn down oportunities for not having enough experience (this being that some people like to attack the guys starting saying that we can not do it, or because we charge cheap or nothing at all and we are hurting the other studios) or you think I should just put my hands on everything people trust me to in order to get that experience ?

Thank you
Maybe not a simple question after all !!!

Hey man,
There is never any reason to turn down an opportunity to record something.
I meet with people to make sure it will be cool for THEM to record with me, rather than if its cool for me.
I have always recorded everything I could possibly record and mix. Sometimes you will find that you learn more than you thought you would learn in a session that is outside of your normal thing.
Don't forget that you are allowed to have your own personal tastes, but they don't really matter when you are the producer or the engineer. You need to do your job and make it great and appropriate to the genre you are working on. It is not about whether you normally listen to hip hop or metal or hardcore or folk or cumbia or whatever... It's about making a great record.
Professionals know that making a record sometimes has very little to do with making music.

The more you record, the better you are at it. That's a constant truth.

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Hola Hombre,
Nunca ha una razón para rechazar una oportunidad de grabar algo.
Me reúno con gente para asegurarme que será interesante para ellos grabar conmigo, más de que sea interesante para mi.
Yo siempre he grabado todo lo que me ha sido posible grabar y mezclar. Algunas veces encontrarás que aprendiste más que de lo que pensabas que ibas aprender en una sesión que está por fuera de lo normal.
No olvides que estas se te permite tener tus propios gustos personales, pero esos no importan cuando eres el productor o el ingeniero. Necesitas hacer tu trabajo y hacerlo genial y apropiado al género en el que estas trabajando. No es sobre si normalmente escuchas hip hop o metal o hardcore o folk o cumbia o lo que sea. Es sobre hacer un gran disco.
Los profesionales saben que hacer un disco algunas veces tiene muy poco que ver con la música.
Entre más grabes, mejor eres en ello. Esa es una verdad constante.