How did you into the music business...

I the music business.....???


but seriously, i started playing in a band with some guys in school, our school organised a small project where we would be recorded, i wasnt happy with the results (uber-naive teenager), went to college to get a diploma in playing bass (LOL) along the way we were given basic production techniques, recording to dat-tapes, mic'ing drums, using analogue desks, etc... i took a massive interest in it, went from there... that was about 7 years ago
 
I bought a pair of chinese studio monitors and put them on both sides of my computer screen, then I took a photo and put it on myspace and called myself a producer.
 
Morgan C said:
Pretty much this

Wanted to record
DI guitars and programmed drums (stock plugins) were bad so we buy a mic and interface
One SM57 for the drums sounds like shit WTF!
Find this site...
??? (a year and a half passes)
Profit?
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+1 this site especially (big thanks to iamandy :kickass: this beers for you)

I also got sick of the guys who were actually doing the production course at the college, tell me how it should sound and saying if i want it to sound different, i should record it myself...

I kinda miss the tape recording days... i don't miss the lack of tracks to record to... 16 tracks is barely enough for drum tracking
 
Played guitar
Got in a shit band
Recorded at the shittest local studios
Decided i'm better than these people
Started recording my own stuff
Sounded like shit
Discovered forum
Sounded a bit better but still shit
Started Music Tech BTEC
Learnt nothing
Still shit
 
My buddys dad owns a stage lighting/live sound company...they needed an extra person on a job one day...liked the way i worked...been working there ever since, i started out mainly doing just the lighting and then a few months ago they started to transition me over to the audio end
 
Trevoire520 said:
I imagine it would be really hard get into the industry without playing an instrument, as it's so much easier to communicate with a musician if you are a musician.
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Lets rewind back to 1999. Then at the local parish center I started as a live mixing engineer ten years ago when I was 16, did that for like 3-4 years until started playing drums when I was 20, played in two bands and just noticed that I don't really enjoy this thing so I just stuck with the mixing part. I started out as a music journalist and then I did a record review from a band, liked the CD, I made a website for them and we became friends. Then I went to the army, got back, got unemployed and then got a regular job as a sound engineer at one of the biggest clubs in Helsinki owned by the municipality and got a job as trainee thru that on the municipalitys studio and when that ended I started freelancing. Then I was a inhouse engineer at four different venues, started mixing my friends band live and go on tour with them, then a band that he recorded and his girlfriends band etc, then via friend of a friend of a friend I got a job for a few summers (going next summer also) at the nightclub of one of the biggest seavessels in the world and I moved to middle of nowhere in 2008 to study music technology after the fourth try. And then I started playing guitar by myself when I was 24.

In 10 years I've totalled about ~1000 gigs (~800 as inhouse engineer and 200 on tour: 500 on monitors, 200 on FOH, 300 combined), 4 tours, 3 albums, ~20 demos and 90 pounds.

My CV is at the frontpage of www.ahjteam.com
 
Band for a while, uni doing sound stuff, got a job at a live venue, recorded bands @ uni studios..

Now I do freelance AE'ing (both studio and live) while studying a PhD in Ambisonics & Spatial Audio and working at the 02 Academy in Glasgow.
 
robfromthedeep said:
Played guitar
Got in a shit band
Recorded at the shittest local studios
Decided i'm better than these people
Started recording my own stuff
Sounded like shit
Discovered forum
Sounded a bit better but still shit
Started Music Tech BTEC
Learnt nothing
Still shit
Started listening to jazz and gave up all hope of ever playing actual music.
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There's my experiences with music. :rofl:
 
My whole family is musicians, so I've been living around music for my entire life. My mother is a theater teacher/director, so I started running lights for her when I was maybe 11-12. Soon I started playing with sound as well and figured out that it's much more interesting. Since then I've been doing theaters, I did all the sound at my high school, I've been working festivals and stuff like that and now I'm taking an engineering degree. I actually rejected a full time tech job a few months before I started my studies, and I don't regret it one bit. I've not been recording that much, mostly my own stuff, and since I started school I've been recording lots of bands. But I'm probably more experienced doing live stuff.
 
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