Happy Half Year!!!
July 1, 2005. The year is officially half over. How has your year been? Mine has been a mixture of complete insanity and very cool projects, a blend of career milestone awards and minor setbacks. Its been a year of regrouping, retooling, upgrading, hiring more staff, Brent and Cooper are both full time now and have become my right and left arms. Cooper hooks up the caffiene iv drip into my left arm while Brent hooks up a constant flow of songs ready to mix into my right arm. my poor veins. As busy as i am, its also been a year of trying to better balance work with some semblance of a life. Now 80 hours is still a pretty average, run of the mill work week for me, this week will eclipse that easily. However, i am attempting to take at least two or three hours everyday to do something i enjoy (other than mixing!!!), or something completely mindless, or something that gives me a bit of a social life.
Just about a year ago (when the olympics were starting) i hit the worst burnout of my career. I turned off the computer for a week and didn't mix a thing. I laid around on the couch watching Olympics, went out to the movies, basically pretended that i wasnt in the music business for a week. It did wonders for me and when i went back to work, i loved it again. Since then, every day i try to take some time for myself, and wouldn't ya know, every day i still love making records. Sometimes it gets frustrating and tedious, but don't all jobs? Mostly though, i just pinch myself everyday and wonder how the hell i got so lucky to make a living with music. Sorry, gotta run, I have a mix waiting for me. Happy Half Year!!!
-Ken
Just about a year ago (when the olympics were starting) i hit the worst burnout of my career. I turned off the computer for a week and didn't mix a thing. I laid around on the couch watching Olympics, went out to the movies, basically pretended that i wasnt in the music business for a week. It did wonders for me and when i went back to work, i loved it again. Since then, every day i try to take some time for myself, and wouldn't ya know, every day i still love making records. Sometimes it gets frustrating and tedious, but don't all jobs? Mostly though, i just pinch myself everyday and wonder how the hell i got so lucky to make a living with music. Sorry, gotta run, I have a mix waiting for me. Happy Half Year!!!
-Ken
posted by Protools Mixing at 2:16 AM
2 Comments:
Just read the article of yours in Scratch, good look. Your mention of a flat fee in a previous post reminds me of the days when me and my group would look at the clock with despair as the engineers took forever and a day to mix a song. Somehow it still sounded like crap in the car.. go figure :)
Get back to that mixing.. there's good tunes to be tweaked to sonic perfection.
what going on ken, im about to complete my training in audio engineering, i dont want a job, what i do what to know is now that im complet how does a person like my self join the aes union, or are the other societys that young audio engineers can join to gain experience if they are willing to work for free,or on an internship level.
thanks for reading this
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