There is never a guaranteed way that you'll make a living in the Music Industry as a Producer and a Recording/Mix Engineer. For the past three and half years, I've been making a path for myself no College Advisor would have recommended. I've been very luck to be apart of a Music and Entertainment Program which has become a family to me. The program helped forged relationships unimaginable for me. With all that being said, they politely opened the door up for me and it was my choice on how far away I would go away from the door once I stepped over the threshold.
Before I was in the Music and Entertainment Business Program at Kennesaw State, I was sitting in Book Stores reading Music Theory books and messing around on the Guitar some. I started realizing I wanted this to become more than an every now and then hobby. I wanted this to become my life and profession.
When I started the program at Kennesaw State, I was messing around with Logic Pro Express. I had an Orange amp and some mics and an interface. I was ready to start making music. This all happened in Fall of 2012. I spent a lot of time in the Mac Lab at House 55 (Music and Entertainment Business Program Building at Kennesaw State), messing around on other audio software and helping other students out.
Then I made a choice to get Pro Tools 10 certified in January of 2013. Pro Tools has been the industry standard Digital Audio Workstation and just like Excel, you've got to know it and all the little key commands to be able to be a marketable asset to who wants to hire you.
I got thrown into the fire pretty quickly once 2013 started. I took a 5 day class for the Pro Tools Certification at the beginning of January and right after that I was asked by the Head of the Music and Entertainment Business Program to record Bubba Sparxxx. This was my first real gig and so my nervous as hell self recorded Bubba Sparxxx at the end of that January. Then later on during that Spring 2013 term I got the chance to record him again. I also started recording students who were doing their Music Technology projects which helped me get my feet wet even more.
Now all of this training and learning helped me achieve some amazing things since Spring Term of 2013.
I interned at a studio in Atlanta and got the chance to meet some amazing artist and felt the full force of being a Studio Intern.
I also interned at Zac Brown's Southern Ground Studio's in Atlanta leading me to being able to represent Southern Ground, (Zac Brown's Company), as a Judge for a Battle of the Bands event.
I worked with two really talented people at Southern Ground Studios, which lead to me to keep working with the Engineer/Producer that worked at Southern Ground to this day at his own studio and being able to record artists that I produce and engineer for. I don't think I can ever thank Tyler and Dan, (the two who worked at the Southern Ground Studio), for everything they've done for me.
For the sake of time and space, I'll list one more position I still have and can't believe that it happened. I am a personal engineer/assistant (whatever you want to call it) for a member of the Zac Brown Band's Home Studio. Been a year since I started and it's been one hell of ride since.
Well that's a short story about the short amount of time I've been in the Music Industry!
P.S. I'm Majoring in Accounting right now...
See, I'm Not Lying!
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