This may come in handy:

StudioSpeak-to-English translator

Musician to engineer: "Could we have more band in the phones?"
Translation: "The singer is too goddamn loud in the phones!"

Singer to engineer: "I can't hear myself".
Translation: "I don't want to hear anyone but myself".

Musician to guitarist: "Can you hear yourself okay?"
Translation : "You're too goddamn loud in the phones!".

Bassist to band: "Can everybody hear the drums?"
Trans: "The groove is entirely absent."

Drummer to bassist: "Can you hear the kick drum?"
Trans: "The bass player is rushing."

Bassist to producer: "Could we have more steel guitar/fiddle/accordion/bodhran in the phones?"
Trans: "I will punish the band for rushing."

Musician to producer: "Could we have more piano in the phones?"
Trans: "The singer is off key."

Musician to writer: "This song has nice changes."
Trans: "It's amazing what you can do with two chords."

Musician to producer or artist: "This song sounds like a hit."
Trans: "This song sounds like another song".

Musician to producer: "I don't think we'll beat the magic of that first take".
Trans: "Please don't make us play this piece of shit again."

Drummer to band: "Should we speed up the tempo a couple of clicks?"
Trans: "Do you all intend to keep rushing?"

Musician: "Could we listen to one in the control room?"
Trans: "I'm hungry and I need another doughnut from the booth."

Producer to band: "Let's take a break and come back and try one more."
Trans: "I need some artificial stimulants to help me get through this session."

Musician to producer: "Were we booked for two sessions today?"
Trans: "Another 3 hours of this and I may have to kill myself."

Producer to band: "We're supposed to be done at six, but we've got only one more tune... why don't we skip our dinner break and work straight through?"
Trans: "You'll be lucky to be done at nine, and you'll be hungry as hell."

Artist to producer: "This song really sucks."
Trans: "I didn't write this song."

Producer to artist: "Trust me, it's a good song. Radio will love it."
Trans: "I own the publishing on this song. Morons will love it."

Singer to musician: "Can you play something more like (so-and-so) would play?"
Trans: "I really wanted (so-and-so) on this record, but I couldn't afford them."