Bad dad.
If you’re irritated by being interrupted while working lock the door or something. honestly, it shouldn’t be that hard to get back in the zone
What are you doing important production work in a room at home? Testing how it sounds in a mediocre sonic location? Even if you have studio monitors (if you’re a gamer, I recommend saving up for some quality powered studio monitors, btw. Computer speakers will never compare. 6” woofer minimum. Sub isn’t gonna do anything but shake ya ass. So if you want ya ass shaken, get a sub. Don’t know that you need to be super picky. Just spend a little.)
Don’t be so harsh with the criticism of things your kid likes!
If you’re mixing, go to the studio. If you’re just familiarising yourself with the material why don’t you even have cans on?
Why? What? Why?
Are you just seeing if a band is “good enough” to work with?
Steve Albini doesn’t even like most of the bands he worked with! HE HATED NIRVANA but we still got “In Utero“.
How many Pixies albums? Hated them.
He doesn’t know how many albums he’s worked on, because it’s his job to make a band sound good, and that’s not that hard once you have the proper gear and skills.
The man has TERRIBLE taste in music, but he gets paid, does his job, and …that’s it. He churns out great-sounding records by whoever pays him 10k.(Plus $X over a certain amount of time iirc. Could be remembering wrong)
Bad dad, potentially unprofessional producer.
Maybe he’s a producer but not an engineer? In which case he probably drops radio hits and his engineer is ProTools.
My theory about BUMP OF CHICKEN (their caps, not mine) and Alkaline Trio is too much time to muck about in the studio and too much “production” by some dude with protools. Then they got addicted and BUMP turned from a pop punk-esque indie band into disco Coldplay bullshit.
Direct to a tape (if you can afford it) or a high-quality ADC at 24/96 minimum (beyond that is only hypotheses as to it being of sonic effect) multitrack device. Tracks back into board and outboard gear. Back to tape (a half track reel ain’t gonna be so expensive that you need to put it on some digital format with no reasonable archivability. I don’t think going to metal, as Mr Albini does)
Sorry, I miss being behind a board. A LOT. I did live work, mostly. Some digital crap, micing, advice only a few people listened to (why are you using a podcasting mic for your vocals?! You’re a soft, airy soprano! Get a condenser of some kind at the least, and a properly-voiced ribbon mic if you can…)