Very interesting challenge Bob.
In all humility, I don't think I could have gotten as much done as you did in three hours. That is really asking a lot of a recording engineer. It's pretty impressive what you got done in three hours.
My son does a lot of music composition work for video, video games and for the occasional movie, and he runs into producers fairly often who think they know what they want but cannot come close to describing it. So they run him in circles for a while and use up more time without paying for it, and then very often go right back to settle on the first stuff he provided them. This would drive me nuts.
I'm glad I made my living as a pump design engineer so that the difference between good and bad is measurable on a test rig. There are no opinions involved. Humans can be awfully hard to get along with at times. I get to save music for my fun time.
- Glenn