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Not all all, man. They retained you and you are willing to keep your end of the deal. Their not doing that does not in any way have to cost you money.
Communicate with them and explain you will be happy to apply that towards the next booking.

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thank ya, brother! 🙂
much success…

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amazing how few “employers have ever done what we do. Kind of a shame.
Sometimes ya just have to laugh like you think they are kidding and rock on.

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also, Check out SOundminer. It’s a cool lil app that auditions clips from your favorite libraries and allows you to retime them and hear pitch differences before even bringing them into your NLE.

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Yes. They part where you explain to them the price difference. 🙂

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there are no rules. period

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putting folks on headphones without their own suite is simply a bad practice.

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I keep one of my guitars in my suite for when I just need a filler bed. But when cutting to music or needing something bigger, I have gravitated to DeWolfe. I like their stuff and I love their people. The let me pay blanket fees per production so I do not limit creativity by counting needle drops. FirstCom is good too. Very interactive site that lets you audition clips at one running time at another and I find that quite a time saver.
Outside of those, I have a large handful of musician friends that are all about laying down custom scores for me… within an hour of their reading my email and getting a file.

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charge him your day rate and sign it.

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