Mike Rivers wrote:

No. But I'm suggesting that with your engineer/producer hat on, you
should guide him into making a recording that will convey the content
and expression of his music without making it difficult to listen to.

This is getting comical.

Regarding live I didn't say that they turned the PA up I said he
frequently distorts the pres.

Regarding producer hat, there are lots of opinions of the producer's
role and in many cases that's one of them.

In this case, the recording started out as a preproduciton demo and
then evolved. When we decided to make it a recording project as opposed
to a preproduciton session, we discussed a concept for the recording
process and we went with that. It was bit of an experiement to - to see
how the recording process would affect the content (by being as truly
transparent as possible). There was a joint vision between producer and
artist that we were both happy with and we were also happy with the
results.

As far as hearing it, we not yet sure how it's going to be released. At
one point we had started talking to Apple about releasing it preloaded
on an iPod so that we could release the entire project as a "digital
boxed set" because we ended up with over 10 CDs of material. There are
some techincal probelms that killed that idea. At this point we have an
offer that we're considering, but is probably a bad deal. So until I
know for sure that we're passing, I have to wait on sending a CD.

The album that this function as preprodution for was made with the
audience in mind and there was a much smaller range as he sang with a
band and never got as soft. That was what was aproprate for that
context just as in the first one his performance matched the concept we
had set out. An no, not every single song had a 90dB range.