music production

[howzit]

AIYA!!!


anywho, if you never spent much time w/instruments and studio equipment, a simple 4 track w/a bunch of virtual tracks is real cheap on ebay, musicians choice or other catalogs. A little anecdote, a guy I know picked up his first guitar 4 years ago. Now he has over a dozen, set up a home studio, and started recording [censored] for his wife and recently started giving these mini-albums to friends. They suck but the point is if you like it and have no shame [censored] up a few hundred times, you can learn this stuff pretty quickly.

If you want to actually make money, interning someplace and getting to work w/producers already in the biz is probably the way to go.

[kbfc]

If you're really serious about it, then the best advice I can give is to practice for a few years and get good. If you're interested in the producing side, I hope you're a damn good musician. If it's the engineering side, being a good musician would be advantageous, but not mandatory. Either way, get a fairly cheap computer-based recording setup, and record religiously. The more you do this, the more you'll actually be able to gauge what potential you have. If you want to do it professionally, you don't HAVE to live in LA or NY (or Nashville if that's your thing), but it certainly helps.