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An audio engineer, who is a friend of mine made me a proposal that no aspiring musician can say no to. “Come to my recording studio and create a record,” he said. “We will tackle on it until you’re happy with it. Take all the studio time you need.” In return, we agreed that after I printed the record, I would give him a part of the sales. This incredible gift was partly because of friendship, and partly because he wanted to accumulate some experience in the studio he had built. 

For 2 days at a month each month I spend two hours driving to his studio and  spend my nights there sleeping on his makeshift bed while I record during the day. During the off times in the studio, I spent it writing songs for the record. While recording I paid consideration on how he arranged the microphones and played around with on different things like switching gears when they fail. I observed him during the mixing process, and I watched him solve problems on the fly. My friend would explain what he was doing, and why, and would constantly answer my questions. 

Unfortunately, the record did not do well in the market. Nonetheless, the lessons I have learned from that experience I was able to apply it in my line of work. At times when a sound technician is not available, I no longer worry because I know I can handle the equipment personally and get the results that I want. Furthermore, the experienced trained my ear to listen to tracks that are not well blended and at the same time it also helped me gain enough understanding to handle such mishaps. At present I am now capable of detecting what is really wrong with the track rather than just knowing that something is wrong. 

Desiring to be a sound engineer is the last thing on my mind and I have no desire to become one. What is important though is the truth that I mastered both from experience and from mentorship in a recording studio. The reason lies on the facts that in order to learn and comprehend audio engineering you need someone who will show and explain to you the whole process along with practice and experience. 

My friend would have learned it from someone despite that fact that he went to school and studied the recording studio art. Nonetheless, I found his gesture of offering me unlimited studio time in order to gain more experience on how to run his studio compelling because this is irrespective of the fact that he spent years studying this particular line of work. Despite the benefit he got from his education, my friend still finds it insufficient and he desired more experience. 

Whether you gain your education through schooling, through mentoring, through practice or through a combination of these, what really matters in this industry is whether you can generate results. That is what I learned from my encounter in the recording studio.

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