Re: Nine Lives Studios in Jersey City

Jersey City NJ

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The owner/engineer, knows his stuff when it comes to tracking. Don't even think of participating in the mixing of your own tracks if he doesn't like your personality. He considered me a 'total hysteric because I laugh and dance around when I like what I hear. Here is a guy who does not only know how to have fun making music, but he doesn't like the artist to have fun either. That makes us hysterics! After I paid his hourly fee of $60.00 to come in and mix - to the tune of about $3000.00, he undid everything and started from scratch completely disregarding all of the money that I had paid and all of the work that I had done. He offered me a deal on the mixing and then he left instruments out of the mix saying that they were out of tune. They were not out of tune. He just didn't want to do it because he felt that he was being underpaid. Somehow, I became the 'bad guy' when I objected. What I wound up with were mixes that were so far removed from my vision that I can't even listen to them. I wish that I had known this before I recorded the first note. There are other better studios out there where your artistry can be respected. This one is not recommended. I am now $20,000.00 poorer and I have NOTHING to show for it! I have never been more depressed in my life. He should stick to recording jingles. Total narcissist! I'm glad I stopped everything when I did. He would have wiped me out. I should have stopped sooner. Now he is trying to gaslight me by saying that I need bi-polar medication. That's his method of getting away with ripping people off. The customer is NEVER right at Nine Lives.