May 20, 2005 12:21 pm hoo, not me. computer field tho
is recording your career?
Posted on May 20, 2005 12:10 pm
mccarty
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Member Since: Oct 30, 2003
hey everyone
i was wondering today if anyone here actually makes a career out of home recording, or do you all have other jobs too? i'm looking ahead to what i'll be doing after uni in about... 4 or 5 years.
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May 20, 2005 12:25 pm Not yet. By day I'm an IT Manager. This is all just for fun for me. Like everyone else here, I'd love to get paid for it but I do it for the smile it puts on our faces.
May 20, 2005 12:29 pm not yet aswell, althought i plan on it beeing.....i run my parents music store on a daily basis, but i'm slowly workin' my way into the local (nashville) recording scene...music is all i know, and all i will do with my life.
May 20, 2005 12:30 pm Nope. I'm an Architect by trade. Music production and recording is a very serious hobby of mine. As much as I love music, I'm going to stick it out with my first love; architecture.
May 20, 2005 12:44 pm sort of, I make all of my living in IT, some of which is multimedia production, that being audio, video and such...
May 20, 2005 01:00 pm Senior Consultant for a IT firm. Geez, we have a bunch of nerds here don't we?
May 20, 2005 01:02 pm Well, this just proves my long held theory of "when musician's realize they may not become rock stars, they become computer geeks". So far my theory holds pretty true.
Last month I interviewed at a web development, hosting, streaming media, ISP company and everybody used to be in bands and stuff...
May 20, 2005 01:16 pm Hey WYD, our drummer's brother is a drummer down there in Nashville.
Chip Hart. I'll check as to what he's been doing lately, maybe he's been in yer store.
May 20, 2005 01:58 pm Nope, tho I am working towards it in many ways between recording/mastering work I do as well as my web design stuff and other bits n bobs. My own music/new band are also on the go - I like to be busy !
Unfortunately, I am also an analyst! Still, we all has our cross to bear!
Cheers
Coco.
May 20, 2005 02:09 pm This week I think I got a job that will put my studio to good use on a regular basis creating enhanced CD's of seminars of various topics...they give me the tape or mpeg or whatever source and I create CD audio and video, so if it's in an audio CD player it'll just play the audio of the seminars, if it is inserted into a computer it'll play the video...that'll likely be a cool gig...
May 20, 2005 02:11 pm Chip Hart....hmm name dosn't ring a bell...i'm accually 30 mins south of down town Nashville (Spring Hill, where they make the Saturns), our store is small, and we cator to ppl south of us. so he's prolly never even heard of us.
May 20, 2005 02:12 pm Nice one..I done one of those for a guy last month - great. I also do em for my own home photo collections of the family, kids etc - great fun indeed.
WOOT to ya dB.
Coco.
May 20, 2005 02:40 pm Yup, I fit the mold pretty well: I'm an IT Engineer with a travel distribution firm.
I've always loved music, but I never really thought about it being a carreer. It can be a tough living in the music industry. Unfortunately, after 9-11, it can be a tough living in the travel industry also...
Nope, its just a hobby for me, along with playing guitar and singing, golf (real and disc), cigars, gardening, scotch whiskey, and other interests. This just happens to be my most constructive hobby :)
May 20, 2005 04:48 pm I do... well I started a home studio and am now finishing up construction on a new 3 studio facility.
May 20, 2005 05:11 pm wow, thanks for the many replies! i'm studying music tech along with maths, graphics and physics at sixth form, and im hoping to take maths with business at uni
then i can see my self fitting into the computing mould, along with a bit of studio work on the side...
i'm always hoping that recording could become a full time gig though!
May 20, 2005 05:17 pm Im 15 and going strong in the recording field, and i love it! so yea, i see it as a definate career path.
May 20, 2005 05:30 pm Not to burst anyones bubble here but I also thought recording/engineering was the path for me so I went to recording school, spent a fortune and right now I am a teaching assistant in northern Alberta Canada. I've done a few projects over the years but nothing to call a career. Always have a back up plan!
May 20, 2005 05:54 pm Yeah, just cuz you want a career in it, doesn't mean it wants your in the career...just like anything, it doesn't always work as planned...but good luck to those who wanna.
The bummer is, that when you take a passion/hobby as a career it can suck the fun out of it before long and it then ends up being "work".
May 20, 2005 06:46 pm "Yeah, just cuz you want a career in it, doesn't mean it wants your in the career...just like anything, it doesn't always work as planned"
...and sometimes you only THINK you want it as a career. As long as you are to be the creative one then things will be great but try taking instructions from someone that doesn't know/have talent as much as you. It can be difficult to simply carry out the demands made by others when someone else is paying the bill.
May 20, 2005 07:31 pm just landed me a job in a local studio as house producer/engineer today!!!!!! get to name my fee (depending on the bands budget though)....it's still beein' built, but i get to help choose the gear! hehehehehhe ok ok i'll calm down.
May 21, 2005 01:21 am Well, quite frankly, I have no career. Kinda forced retirement per my insistance on living in Michigan, (the rotting automotive state) and getting old (natural hazard of living). It's all good however. I have never had so much fun making a living. Do landscaping by day and recording by evening and weekends. I have a number of paying clients utilizing my studio services and I am paying the bills and still getting a piece of gear here and there. I would truely love to stay on this path if I could. Time will tell. I don't miss the 'mob' mentality of the corporate environment one bit.
At this point I don't think I would want recording to be the only thing I did. The balance between activities enhance my abilities at each activity if that makes any sense.
May 21, 2005 11:40 am hey walt, i'm a saturn transplant from willow run (GM, Ypsi)...my father (and me as a temp for a year) worked there. i feel ya.
wyd
May 23, 2005 12:19 am Small world WYD! I live a mile from Willow Run as the plane flies. My wife works for Willow Run schools. It's getting simply ugly here.
May 23, 2005 12:39 am yeah every time i come up to visit, i really feel glad we went down here....things arn't so peachy at saturn these days either though....but the scenery is alot nicer.
May 23, 2005 09:27 am I used to live in a house of a GM employee that transplanted to Nashville to work at Saturn. We were living in Redford. I've headed up north since then.
Hey Walt, there's still some cheap land here and there up here, if you're looking to get outta the city.
May 23, 2005 08:52 pm to answer the question accurately: Part time at the moment. I am running a Label/Publishing company/writing team/studio for one deal while starting school for an EE degree, and working Tech support for a major company by day. :) My goal is to get the tech support company to pay for my EE degree as they have full tuition reimbursement, and then land a job building audio equipment, doing tech support for an audio company, working in a studio, working in an IT dept doing hardware... or something to that degree when I am finished. No matter which way you look at it I will be in my field I guess.. lol The dream of course would be to do the studio full time... *shrugs*
As for small worlds and all these folks from Michigan, I am from Ann Arbor btw.... :)
May 23, 2005 09:00 pm Yo PJK!
The world is getting smaller yet! I just sold a 40 to my niece in Atlanta! Your just a hop skip and jump away from where I grew up.
On one hand I would love to leave the city, but there is still a quite a bit of draw. My wife's work is important to us, as is my work with my band and others I have networked with since I moved 'down below'. It's hard to find a working 17 piece big band in that neck of the woods and the drive for rehersals would be wacko!
First part of July we will hopping the bikes and heading up your way. I will make it a point to bug you on the way through!
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