On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:36:03 +0300, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

"Professionals" consistently do terrible things to my music.

Laurence. What do you mean exactly by "your" music?
Is this music you have written or performed, or recordings
you have bought as a consumer?


Sometimes written. Mostly performed. In live performance,
"professional" sound operators are frequently clueless with anything
except rock music, and sometimes even then. Sad, but true, even at
good-class venues and theatres, I don't do pub gigs :-)

Recording engineers are usually better. But they aren't always
listening for what I know is in the music. Sometimes their angle on
it is illuminating. Sometimes not.