The idea that bugs me the most is the artist relying on the engineer to fix everything, the engineer should have the ability to fix minor issues and not have to fix everything. Justin gave nothing but raw 'crap' tracks, wouldn't retrack any vocals, didn't bother to fix the garbage drum tracks and the bass lines were off. Brent may get some pleasure from acknowlegements for his contribution but what he has done with the song could have been done with a lead sheet and studio musicians.

I always get these musicians who go up onstage, get paid the upwards of $5k a show and all they do is adlib to their prerecorded cd. whoopty doo..

From my stand point, mixing a great song starts from the tracking process.