Barenton Levey and producer Henry Junjo Laws became very frustrated after waiting a very long time for they're recording session. Everybody started cracking up. He made me a bet that I could not even turn on the power. Back in the late seventies a lot of radio stations record-mastering plants was scared to play reggae on their equipment because transmitter would over modulate and record cutting machine would go into protection mode to prevent the high frequencies from burning up the cutting heads. Spider man at Dynamics Studio in Jamaica would have to use extra helium to keep the cutting heads cool.
Reggae music pushes audio equipment to the extreme.
I don't have to worry about overheating or the amplifier clipping they can handle allot of abuse. The engineer is responsible for set-up of all necessary equipment needed to perform and produce the best recording and sound quality possible for each individual task. Sometimes, less experienced groups relie upon the experience of the engineer to give them musical guidance. Yes it resulted in a lot of anti cultural music that had demoralized some of the people. Working at Tuff Gong was very enjoyable.