Expressions to Avoid During A Recording Session 1. Ready, Freddie (pronounced red-eye fred-eye) 2. Bingo, gringo 3. Uno, Bruno 4. The phones sound O.K. but I need more of myself 5. We won't need a click 6. I like what you're trying to do but not the way you're doing it 7. An excellent first attempt 8. Was that the sound you had on the demo? 9. Make the click louder 10. That was a pretty good take for this time of night 11. If you want the tempo any brighter than that, we better wait for a sunny day 12. No dynamics? We're playing as loud as we can 13. I think that's a pretty good sounding take for what were getting paid.. 14. That was great, let's do it again 15. Is that about as tight as you boys want to get it? 16. Is it possible the click is speeding up? 17. I'm at the point where I'm making dumb mistakes - before I was making much smarter mistakes 18. So many drummers, so little time 19. Why don't we do the double first and the lead will be easier to get once we've got the double 20. I never had this problem when I was being produced by Lenny and Russ 21. We got some things, we need some things 22. Fabulous 23. Punch in at the section 24. You can't make ice cream out of shit 25. You can't polish a turd 26. Just let your spirit soar 27. My spirit's already sore from the last thirty takes... 28. Close 29. Less is more 30. Less is Paul 31. Less is Brown 32. Less is less 33. That's the way I've been playing it all along 34. I just wish I could get a whole band that sounds as good as I do 35. This will be a great opportunity for me to show off my chop 36. Let's hear the bass, if you can call it that 37. Play something Paul would tell Linda to play 38. Does your amp have an underdrive channel? 39. You can erase that one, I remember exactly what I played 40. We'll catch that in the mix 41. You guys can fix that in Soundtools, right? 42. I brought my kid along, he's never been in a recording studio before 43. My girlfriend sings great background vocals 44. I know a great drummer 45. You guys want to try some heroin? 46. Your girlfriend's been in the bathroom a long time 47. Please, man, stay away from my faxes, okay? 48. I'm not going to be any more dishonest with you than I am with Donald 49. I'd like a little more of a live feeling on this tune. 50. I also play eleven other instruments 51. Sorry I'm late, I just got through with my blood test (or CAT scan) 52. That vocal's not a keeper is it? 53. That's how I wrote it but that's not how I like to play it 54. I can't think of any improvements that won't make it worse 55. That ground loop is a trademark thing for me 56. That's the new old comp from today - I want to hear the new old comp from last Tuesday 57. That reverb would sound a lot better if it were coming out of a piece of MY GEAR 58. How bout we get rid of these 3M machines and get ourselves a frozen yogurt machine 59. Roz Shrank on line one for you 60. Skunk called, he's on his way down 61. The frozen yogurt machine is broken 62. When was the last time we worked together? Tonight.

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