If You Got A Sorry Engineer...

Nate on Engineers

Im really disappointed. As of late some of my peers and clients have expressed their feelings bout the lack of credible engineers here in Atlanta. Maybe things would be different for me if I never interned at such a great studio as Patchwerk and get to see so many dope engineers track and mix everyday. Ive assisted some of the best engineers in the country and Im very thankful for that and to actually be friends with some of the industries best cause that gives me insight and actually in more ways a sense of what its gonna take to get where I want. Theres no excuse for some of the things that fly nowadays. For example and Im not trying to point fingers or diss anyone, but listen to The Carter 3. Awesome songs and pretty much the Savior of Hip Hop this year. Dude has went 2x platinum in a lil under 5 weeks. Amazing. The vocals though from song to song....decent at best. Listen to " You Aint Got Nuthin" Juelz and Waynes vocals are so distorted its crazy. The verses are sick too, but they sound like shit becuase whoever tracked them didnt have the sense to stop and change his settings until he or she got it right. Retracking a vocal due to fidelity is a artists worst nightmare. I would have loved to track those joints, Id be sitting pretty right now with those credits lol. I posted a vi of Danja talking about his engineer and how shes a very valuable part of what he does. The engineer is so critical cause they are the gate keeper, they control how the record is gonna sound and how fast or slow the session is gonna flow. Ive seen an engineer single handily shut a session down from being to slow and just plain out of their league during a vocal session. Kanye said it best, "Go to the studio in fear of being wack". If nothing else will motivate you then that should, I would hate for someone to say I was wack and kept them from being creative. Fuck that, step your game up Atlanta, your making it easier for your competition to take your cleintele. If this was LA or NY you would be out of work and luck. Even if your in a good situation and your happy and content things change with the wind, stay up on current platforms and updates. Read and study. Ask questions and lose the ego, cause if theres anything worse than a dumbass, its a smartass know it all. Get Money.