Getting more bands to come in

[Harry Hughes]

I checked your critique thread and well, I think you need to hold off a bit longer and do a bit more learning before getting any more paid projects happening.
You were asking questions like "When everyone here says "cut 130-160". Is that the low cut filter? or high cut?".
There's no way I'd trust a mix engineer who hasn't consolidated the basics with my work, no way.
When you're told you should cut around 130-160 hertz and you don't understand what that means, you definitely don't even have the basics down yet.

And well "I have great quality, with tight mixes, and people seem to love it"
You're getting ahead of yourself honestly.
To be honest, that mix you posted isn't great quality at all and tight is not adjective I'd use to describe it at all.

Give yourself 12 more months, work on the basics, read up A LOT on many of the concepts you need to read about and you may just be ready.
And if you're serious about becoming a real engineer, ditch the amp sims and get real amps and cabinets.
Again, that will need time for you to earn the money to get them, but get a job now if you don't have one and in 12 months you'll have at least 2 amp heads and 2 different cabs.
I can safely say most people will take an engineer a lot more seriously if he/she knows how to mic up the real deal, and understands the real fundamentals of engineering, rather than some dude who just has POD Farm to work with.

 

[if6was9]

Yeah it definately helps being in a band on your local scene. I'm the house tech in my local venue too and thats being great for getting recording clients- I get to meet alot of bands and get talking to them, when they're comfortable with you being a live sound guy you've already got a relationship and it's easy to deal with them. If you leave them know you record and they hear your stuff it's not hard to become an option come time for them to record

 

[DanLights]

I checked your critique thread and well, I think you need to hold off a bit longer and do a bit more learning before getting any more paid projects happening.
You were asking questions like "When everyone here says "cut 130-160". Is that the low cut filter? or high cut?".
There's no way I'd trust a mix engineer who hasn't consolidated the basics with my work, no way.
When you're told you should cut around 130-160 hertz and you don't understand what that means, you definitely don't even have the basics down yet.

And well "I have great quality, with tight mixes, and people seem to love it"
You're getting ahead of yourself honestly.
To be honest, that mix you posted isn't great quality at all and tight is not adjective I'd use to describe it at all.

Give yourself 12 more months, work on the basics, read up A LOT on many of the concepts you need to read about and you may just be ready.
And if you're serious about becoming a real engineer, ditch the amp sims and get real amps and cabinets.
Again, that will need time for you to earn the money to get them, but get a job now if you don't have one and in 12 months you'll have at least 2 amp heads and 2 different cabs.
I can safely say most people will take an engineer a lot more seriously if he/she knows how to mic up the real deal, and understands the real fundamentals of engineering, rather than some dude who just has POD Farm to work with.

I was going to post pretty much what Harry said. Although the getting real amps thing isn't 100% necessary right now, I mean of course if you can afford it you should get real stuff, but if you have good knowledge and tools you could get good paid work even without having your own amps (if the band doesn't have any, use ampsims). But yeah dude, that mix isn't really "tight" and not too good, and you obviously need to read up a lot on the very basics, so take this good sir's advice on it, me recommends