Altitude's Vocalist Yelling. Image: YouTube/Dans Lab

Don't mess with the sound engineer. A lesson that new bands should first learn. A lot of bands think recording and mixing are easy jobs by simply pressing certain buttons. So why do we have to pay the sound engineer? Well, a band knows the answer having known a great dance remix.

Members of a painful hardcore band "Altitudes" messed with their sound engineer. They became a laughing stock in a hilarious viral YouTube video. The audio engineer did an awesome job with the production.

An upcoming music producer and audio engineer at Dan's Lab Studios recorded Altitudes. But he was not paid for all the hard work done in the production. Frustration crept in and the sound engineer had no option but revenge.

He took the song then remixed and clubbed it with the music video. He later threw some disco tunes here and there and, voila, it was the revenge of the sound engineer. The tacky tune was released online.

If the metalcore vocals with stupid bass drops and cheesy keyboard lines wasn't enough, the sound engineer clubbed the song with intercut footage of the band recording with black and white shots of skateboarders doing their acts in slow motion and close-ups of vocalist's braces.

Dan Atkinson of Dan's Lab, Long Beach, Calif. said the dance remix was the best 30 minutes he had ever spent.

"I recorded all the audio, filmed them at my studio, and then I decided to write a dance tune to the same tempo they recorded at. I merely took his vocals and slapped it on the dance track, then replaced the new audio to the video I had already edited," Atkinson explained via his YouTube channel.

If you carefully read the comments of this hilarious video, you will read the comment by Alexander Ruiz, vocalist of Altitudes.

"It's crazy seeing... our engineer do something like this to us," he wrote. "We never put the video out, we never put the song up for download or even share it. Basically we just weren't financially stable at the time but we were planning on paying him back."

But it's too late for Altitudes as the group is famous now. Members should thank Dan's Lab for the exposure (sarcasm!).

Credit: YouTube/Dans Lab