How do I tell a friend...

Years ago my friend bought some prosumer gear and we started recording at home in our spare time. We would make a drum loop, make some instrument loops and just have fun. Add some quick vocals and a quick mix.. And it sounded ...ok. Lofi kinda, which I thought was great! The vocals weren't perfect but they were buried in the mix and it felt like music. Not great, but not horrible. We both went separate ways after this, but stayed friends.



Well years have passed and my friend has remixed and remixed it. Now it sounds nothing like the original mixes, Vocals are 10 feet above the tracks, and he spent years programming the drums to sound like a real drummer-...only of course it doesn't. Doesn't sound like electro either-just bad.

Acoustic instead of sounding like an sm57 like we tracked, it sounds like a wannabe Taylor swift acoustic. In your face and annoying.



Fine whatever... Just as long as no one hears it I think to myself



But.. He wants to officially release it 'now' cause he's depressed he's never released anything!



I'm like "let's have someone mix this"



he's offended.



He's convinced it's perfect now with all his work!



Releasing means that he'll be smearing all our Facebook friends/old fans.



I'm so embarrassed by this, he put my shaky vocals so high above the music.. Like that horrible U2 album from Apple. Only I'm no Bono!



I don't know what to do. I keep saying "let's re-record" but he's arguing against me on everything. Nobody who has heard it can listen more that 10 seconds



Any suggestions?



Thanks ...



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How do I tell a friend...