RE: 045 - Thinking about my music career
You have some really good stories with music. I never liked to play gigs which I think is about 90% of the way to succeed in music. It might just have been the area I lived in and my unwillingness to travel. Since I married my wife when we were young starting our lives together took the forefront. My big thing was writing and recording original music. I never really sent anything in and whenever I did get attention I would never come to agreements because I was paranoid about being taken advantage of. Nowadays I prefer not to think about how I should have played my hand I am just glad I created recordings that if not anything else are like photos of my past. I've noticed that you have (what I am guessing is) a Presonus studio live mixer. Do you like it? I've always been interested and getting one.
Thanks for your response Tim. Writing and recording is all fairly new to me. I'm not sure where I'll go with it really. I've been following Joe Gilder's content for a couple of years and learned a great deal about recording and mixing. I also took Ian Shepherd's home mastering masterclass and that too was a big learning curve, but ultimately worthwhile.
It is indeed a PreSonus Studio Live mixer, the Series III. It's expensive, but it's absolutely superb. I bought it to live mix the wedding band I played with, then we broke up. I'm kinda loathe to sell it, so if I can make it work for live streaming I'll be able to justify keeping it I think. I did consider getting out there and running live sound for other bands, but it's an island and there's a company that already kinda has that market sown up. It's run by friends of mine and it's a community interest company, meaning non profit basically. So I'm not sure how I would even complete with that! I can highly recommend PreSonus gear though. It's top drawer.