The Recording Studio as a Creative Outlet

I mentioned in my last post that I could never see myself working in a cubicle or traditional office, or even in the three-piece-suit-corporate-business world at all. After all, "park avenue leads to skid row!" in the words of the now infamous 80s band Skid Row. Anyone feeling particularly anarchistic should look up their song "Youth Gone Wild".

Anyway, to get back on topic, I picked the recording industry because I have always been fascinated with complicated technology and the technical aspects of music. To me, a recording studio is more an outlet than a workplace. I find that when it comes to traditional business tasks like reading paperwork and working in a highly structured environment, my mind simply does not want to work. In contrast, I could sit at a recording console literally all night (and have before) without getting bored, as every little thing that happens provides a new and exciting outlook on the project as a whole.

This image is borderline pornography to me. I could only imagine what it would be like to personally own such equipment, and I hope to someday. I have always been told to do what I love for a living, and I truly am pursuing that in a degree in Audio Engineering.

I'm not in it for the money, and definitely not for the fame. Average recording engineers do not make very much money, and face it, who EVER pays attention to the guy doing sound at a concert unless something goes wrong? It is actually this tough aspect of the job that I find pleasure in. A recording studio allows me to convey my emotion in the most powerful way known to man: music.

Even if I am not the musician being recorded or playing live, the simple fact that I have the creative control and artistic license to turn knobs, move faders, and apply sound processing tools, means that I have complete power to alter and mold those sounds however I see fit. Nothing compares to this feeling, and it is why I can't wait to get in the studios at college next fall!