So how did YOU get into recording?

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"Sound Off" drum mufflers,...

as found at Guitar Centers. It's 1/4" thick wetsuit type rubber material, cut to size, & it's really effective at muffling the drums, for practice. I have two sets, and when doubled up, the drums are muffled almost 100%, without giving up that real drum feel.
 
A real person: Your studio looks cool. I'd like to hear some music that has came out of all that! :)

Zeke
 
When I was 13 I played in a punk band. (No really, I did) Anyways, my band wanted to record our "material" so we started looking at studios. We soon realized, being 13, that we could not afford the amount of time in a large studio. I said I would never spend that kind of money to record my own band. I therefore set out to purchase a Tascam 4 track and 2 sm57 mics. A few years later, after having spent more then I would have on a studio session, I finished building a 24 track digital studio in my basement. My dad gave me a room down there. I just kept buying and buying, and every once and a while I'd sell something. But for the most part I was spending. I then proceeded after high school to University at Buffalo. Soon realizing I didn't want to pursue business alone. I will now be transferring in the fall to Berklee College of Music in Boston. I will be dual majoring in Music production and engineering AND Music business management. And hopefully some day I will have a job doing what I love......hopefully. ;-)


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Uh, let me see. Music was a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I did some analog recordings from computer to MiniDisc a couple years ago... that kinda started me off with basics on hooking crap up.

Eventually I got drums a while later and a friend of mine a guitar, and we'd jam. I dunno how I came about starting to record us, but it sounded pretty bad, everything was looped and whatnot, but I really enjoyed recording so I kept at it. I used to use a cheap Sony boom box and it's god awful speakers and run a cheap Radioshack PA into it, then it would run out to my MiniDisc. And I'd have to stick that on my computer. Matt Damon's side band "Gorillaz" had a lot of tracks from their songs on their websites, I'd steal off of and mix for fun, that got me familiar with Cool Edit's multitracking.

Sad thing is...this was only last year :)
 
I started as a keyboard player, and came in contact with PA companies. Then I realised I didn't want to be on the stage, but behind the desk...MORE BUTTONS....but how?

Companies said...you can roll cables, but our clients are not paying us to have an inexperienced dude behind the desk.....so I became the light engineer....DESK NEXT TO THE SOUNDCONSOLE!.....watching watching watching.....now can I please do sound?.....
NO........
please?.......
NONO......
please please......
I SAID NO........
pleasiepleasiemesweet?....
BUZZ OFF........
pleasiepleasiepleasiepleasie?..........
FUCK YOU...ROLL CABLES.....
damn.

So I bought my own little desk to practice at home....anyway one day the companies technician became ill and they had no choice but to put me behind the desk.....AND I DID THE TRICK....so I became an engineer, and this company grew and grew, with me happily becoming one of their most experienced FOH technicians...at this time I still was pretty young, and living with my parents and no grilfriend...so no costs to live my life....thus me buying mucho equipment....

I went to college (music and studio) and at that time I realised I was actually making a decent living out of mixing...So I skipped school after 4 years to become 'pro'......had some real luck with meeting the right people at the right time/place, and I guess I understood the whole 'game'....

Right now my company is still growing in more than 1 direction:

a. there is the main facility..the recording studio
b. there is a theatreproductions for which we provide equipment and technicians
c. within a couple of days we are starting a private musicschool providing people with a modern way of learning to play the instrument
d. we provide freelance technicians for PA and AV companies.

Just have to make sure it never becomes work!
 
Oh yeah, and hearing the works of David Foster was a big part in my wanting to become an engineer! Listen to the Symphony Sessions!
 
Heh-memory lane---I started out with 2 cassette decks-bouncing back and fourth-Then I got a Tascam porta-studio---man I loved that thing-got a Dr Rhythym drum machine one of the first drum machines and I was in Heaven-I could make music-in my room by myself!!! (I still have dozens of tapes full of my early experiments)

I've always been interested in production-David Bowies's "fame" was the first record I ever bought--when I heard that wierd vocal part---going from real high to real low---I was freakin ridin in the backseat of the VW bus hehe. Jimmy Page, Eno-Lanois, Mutt Lange, Trevor Horn, Butch Vig and many more have been inspirations--Like everything they are involved with turns to gold.
 
I guess the reson that i ended up in music is because my dad runs a Music Park and there for has 2 sound systems. So i guess i've just been around knobs for my whole life. I realy got to hand it to him, he's been a good father. (he gave my a sm57 :D )

Zeke
 
But, all joking aside, I got into recording because I had a friend who was an engineer and he showed me a few things. Several years later I bought a second hand Porta One and an AKG D321, and things just went from bad to worser.
 
keilson said:
curious.....what is a music park?
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my dad books bands (mostly Bluegrass and contry) to play at the park. We have 29 akers complete with a almost 1 mile hiking trail, Creek and forest. We have 2 main stageges: 1 on under a shelter for summer and one in a big blue building for winter. Because of this park, i have made friends with alot of band members. Oh! and Dolly Pardon Has been To our Park Before.

I'm not joking! I have the photo's to prove it :D
 
Give me a minite! I have to go up to the blue building to get them!
 
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