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- Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:54 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: How many of you earn a living from recording?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10741
I answered Yes. Recording music is my primary source of income. However, I am not making a living from it. Six years in and I made it work in my bachelor days of roommates and living off free day-old bread, but now I seem to be at the end of the rope. The rent is due in a few days and I just have en...
- Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:16 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Trading work for points on a record
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2783
Trading work for points on a record
I recently started up a small studio with a partner. He owns the space & handles booking. I provide the gear & the ears. He's also an independent professional recording artist. We started working on material for his new album. He's my bro, so I just started working without any sort of payment arrang...
- Thu May 31, 2012 7:11 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Personal engineer followup/rant/lesson
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3946
- Thu May 31, 2012 12:54 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Personal engineer followup/rant/lesson
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3946
Gregg, I did not sign a work-for-hire contract yet. I have most of what I've done backed up. Copyright paperwork has not been filed yet. He's not from the Thunder. I've actually known this guy for five years now, and he's always been cool. Everything changed when he got this manager, that I think he...
- Wed May 30, 2012 10:09 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Personal engineer followup/rant/lesson
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3946
Personal engineer followup/rant/lesson
Some of you may remember a post a made a while back about working as a personal engineer for a high-profile athlete ( prev topic ). I got lots of great feedback from fellow tapeopers. I say a lot of this from a negative perspective, but I still love recording and making music. I've met and worked wi...
- Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:39 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Personal Engineer
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7616
- Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:30 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Personal Engineer
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7616
First off, thank you very much for the responses everyone. We just kind of hung out and mostly shot the shit since it's been a while. His lawyer will be emailing me a draft of a contract this week. I have a lawyer for myself in mind. We talked about me getting a cut on royalties, which he has no pro...
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:12 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Personal Engineer
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7616
Personal Engineer
Tomorrow night I'm meeting with a certain celebrity athlete. He wants to hire me as a full-time audio engineer. My job will be to mix, record, write rap beats and be available to travel during season/training. His will pay for all travel and accommodations, a mobile rig and 60k/year. As you can gues...
- Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:24 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Day Jobs (or what else you do apart from engineering)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 24116
I got a B.M., then started interning at a studio. The owner asked me a simple question that changed my whole perspective. "If you had a million dollars; in other words, you didn't have to worry about money, what would you do?" "Well, I don't have a million dollars, so that doesn't matter." I brewed ...
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:20 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: cloning drives
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2627
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:19 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: cloning drives
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2627
I didn't explain myself clearly. I have two separate systems. I'm not interested in migrating anything. I have a newer desktop and an older laptop. I'm replacing the HD in the laptop 'cause it's approaching 6 years old. I want to clone the old drive that's already in there so all I have to do is swa...
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:50 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: cloning drives
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2627
cloning drives
I have a '05 Powerbook ready for a new drive. I have a lot of stuff on it, and I want to clone it to make life easier. Would this work? 1)Use carbon copy cloner to clone the internal onto an external drive 2)hook the external up to my newer mac 3)install the new drive in my laptop 4)hook up the lapt...
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:49 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: The Nomad's rig
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7537
Hey everyone, thanks for the ideas and responses to my vague question! I'm mainly a recording/mixing engineer and composer. I do lots of editing, sequencing, DSP, ITB mixing and online file transfers, so a laptop is essential. I worked in a commercial studio & music TV network for 3 years before mov...
- Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:46 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: The Nomad's rig
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7537
The Nomad's rig
Let's say you wanted to live out of a backpack, or maybe a backpack and suitcase. Not more than you could take on a flight without checking luggage. You want to be able to work anywhere you decide to sit down. So, what are you packin' gear-wise? Obviously a laptop, but what else would go along with ...
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:55 am
- Forum: People/Places/Things
- Topic: Minneapolis recording/music scene queries...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4689
I'm in nearly the same boat as the OP. Seeing a girl who lives in St. Paul and I'm strongly considering relocating there next August. I was an in-house engineer and did production & post-production for a TV network for 3 years before leaving to take care of my grandma out in the country. There are v...