Introduction
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:11 pmHope I'm in the right spot to do this...Just got registered for the forum, so I thought I would introduce myself - I'm Andrew.
As my forum name indicates, I never set out specifically to be an audio engineer (& I don't really consider myself to be one now). Guitar was my first love - been playing for 38 years now, and ventured into home recording along the way.
My first recordings were in the mid/late 70's on portable cassette recorders. In the early 80's, I managed to make my first "multitrack" recording on an Akai Double-Cassette with dubbing. A friend bought a Yamaha MT1X 4 track around '86, and invited me to overdub some guitar on it. Around '89, I recorded a track on another friend's Fostex 1/4" 8 Track Reel to Reel. I was pretty much hooked then, but didn't get my own Yamaha multi-tracker until around '92, followed by a Roland VS880EX in '95 (which I still have, along with those wonderful 250Mb Zip drives).
I made quite a few demos of my own stuff, but didn't really get the serious engineering bug until I got my first computer based system around 2006. At that time, I built myself a little home studio setup (rather acoustically ill-conceived in hindsight) in my shed, & collected a bit of gear to record with.
Oddly enough, once I started to develop a few recording & mixing skills after a fairly intensive period of study, I got some requests from others to start mixing/recording their stuff, which has meant that my own personal recordings have had to take a back seat...hence the title "Accidental Engineer"
...probably a familiar story to some in a similar situation here, I'd imagine.
Anyhow... glad to be here, hoping to learn lots!
As my forum name indicates, I never set out specifically to be an audio engineer (& I don't really consider myself to be one now). Guitar was my first love - been playing for 38 years now, and ventured into home recording along the way.
My first recordings were in the mid/late 70's on portable cassette recorders. In the early 80's, I managed to make my first "multitrack" recording on an Akai Double-Cassette with dubbing. A friend bought a Yamaha MT1X 4 track around '86, and invited me to overdub some guitar on it. Around '89, I recorded a track on another friend's Fostex 1/4" 8 Track Reel to Reel. I was pretty much hooked then, but didn't get my own Yamaha multi-tracker until around '92, followed by a Roland VS880EX in '95 (which I still have, along with those wonderful 250Mb Zip drives).
I made quite a few demos of my own stuff, but didn't really get the serious engineering bug until I got my first computer based system around 2006. At that time, I built myself a little home studio setup (rather acoustically ill-conceived in hindsight) in my shed, & collected a bit of gear to record with.
Oddly enough, once I started to develop a few recording & mixing skills after a fairly intensive period of study, I got some requests from others to start mixing/recording their stuff, which has meant that my own personal recordings have had to take a back seat...hence the title "Accidental Engineer"
...probably a familiar story to some in a similar situation here, I'd imagine.
Anyhow... glad to be here, hoping to learn lots!