“I’m a music recording geek…”
It started when I was young, watching my dad hook up his stereo system so we could listen to jazz music. I have always loved music and have a knack for technical things, so that stereo was easily the coolest thing in my life. I loved listening to sounds come out of the speakers while I watched the meters bounce on my dad’s Carver amplifier.
As I grew up I learned to play a variety of instruments including piano, percussion, and eventually taught myself guitar. I made my first recording, on a Sony cassette deck, of my cousin and I “jamming” on a keyboard and a snare drum. I played in bands in and out of school, and somewhere along the line I convinced my parents to buy me a inexpensive multitrack recorder. I set that up with some mics from Radio-Shack and a crappy pair of Yamaha NS-somethings as monitors, pushed by my dads now old Carver amplifier, and the rest I guess is history.
During my career as a recording and sound engineer I’ve worked as an electronics tech for a boutique microphone company, taught classes on microphones at a Nashville trade school, designed sound systems for clubs and churches, helped design and build a couple of small recording studios, and I’ve had the privilege of recording some great music with wonderful artists in big and small studios. I’m a music recording geek, and I love my job.
