Greetings and salutations, fellow creators! Sgt. Pigeon at your service. You can call me Pigeon, Sgt., Sarge, hey you, or anything, really, as long as it's polite. My preferred pronouns are he/him.
I've played guitar since around 1984, played in a couple of bar bands between 1986-1993 ('93 is when I became a parent for the first time, and that may suffice as an explanation of the end of my bar band playing days
), and have had the desire to record music for many years, too. I bought my first cassette 4-track machine in 1988, and have continued to purchase things I would barely use at different intervals. I've recorded a LOT of stuff in terms of hours. I have
finished relatively little. Pathetically little, really, especially given the number of purchases I've made in gear and software. I'm sure I'd be mortified to know the average cost of my finished material, so I'm not even going to try that math.
I'm in my mid-fifties, married empty-nester, and due to the onset of some neuropathy, I do most of my playing and recording on a keyboard these days. I love learning new virtual instruments, designing sound, writing songs, recording (more coding than recording, to be more accurate), and mixing. A few years ago, a thing related to critical listening (finally!) clicked in my brain, and I was able to hear mixes. It was amazing. I was able to re-introduce myself to all my favorite music and hear it, in a sense, like it was the first time.
I've tried lots of DAWs, but I think I'm married to Studio One, now.
ANYWAY... Nice to "meet" you all! May your days be musical and many.
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