I'm stressed... mainly because my bandmate/band leader made plans to go to the studio we used to record our album, in West Virginia, this weekend, Thursday night through Sunday morning. He didn't ask us about it and we all agreed we were going to use my buddy's studio, as he produces better results, it's cheaper, and he'll put in as much attention as it needs until perfect for a really low flat rate. We have been unhappy with the quality of this other studio. But he keeps flipping on it and saying we need to finish it with this studio, after agreeing the use the other studio (which is also in town instead of 5 hours away). I'm pissed because it's going to be way worse quality. I think he just refuses to believe it's going to be better quality just because it's in my friend's living room instead of a studio building in a downtown location. It's dumb. I'm going to be unhappy with the result, and this will be the 4th time we've gone back, and we're paying $250 a day each time. We could have done the whole thing for 1/3 of the money and it would have been done already and far better quality. But you can't tell him anything. He just doesn't know anything about recording, but I wish he'd listen to me because I co-produced my other band's album. It was weird too because he lied to me about it, he said that my buddy told him he didn't have time and never got back to him, but I asked my buddy and he said that in fact, he just never showed up when he was scheduled to come in, which caused him to cancel other plans for nothing, and that he specifically said he has time and hopes to see us soon. So that's weird. Also I have a super busy work week and will have to work on the road and from the studio and that's a big pain and will make things harder for me.
I'm really stressed about it mostly because I have to tell my girlfriend and she is going to be upset. She's nervous about covid, and also there all this protesting and stuff. I am positive she's going to be really upset about it and I'm going to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. I mean I pretty much have to go, we have to finish, we have to re-record some vocals and some instrumentals and do some mixing. Anyway we're gonna go for a walk shortly and I'll bring it up and explain how I feel. I found out last night but haven't told her yet because I don't want to deal with the situation, but it's time, I have to.
He says that our next album that we want to start recording soon we'll do at my buddy's studio. I'm going to put my foot down if he tries to go back on that. All we need to do is get one song done in there and he'll see.