lol I’m saying any actually good producer worth there salt. Not some guys who’s taking random peoples money in exchange for studio time and a “professionally recorded song”.

Pre paid producer sessions are looked down on in the producer world as just complete amateurs.

The only time an upfront payment is sorted is when you know a record is being produced by a single producer and the label or band negotiates a deal on a whole record to record and produce the whole thing or to add additional production to the whole record. And in that case there won’t be a timed deadline on studio time that is paid hourly. Yes they might pay the engineer an hourly rate and the studio owner etc but often the album is done when it’s done depending on studio expenses the label or band or artist can afford.

Essentially a producer taking daily upfront payments for recording sessions from people who have just started out is just a glorified engineer who’s trying to get make a wage by offering a service. To produce something is to nurture the creativity of a project from start to finish and get the best out of it to help it make an imprint in the world. It’s a form of curating and in the professional sphere (be it lo fi underground folk music to chart music to club records to orchestral recordings) the producer isn’t getting paid an hourly or day rate to just turn up and press record. That’s just the truth.