| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: Careers in music - other than performing
by Frodo | 06/09/01 at 19:07:54
Let's face it, a lot of us suck at performing, but still would like a career in music. So how many ways are there to make a living in this biz?
Subject: Re: Careers in music - other than performing
by JR#97 | 06/09/01 at 22:35:41
Actually, I think performing is probably the hardest way to make a living with music. Travelling, playing weekend and nights....
I worked for a huge media company's recording division for a while and there were a lot of different jobs that were music related that werent' performing. Our creative/media dept. did the media production for the advertising division. That meant composing, writing, jingles, back ground music for film/tv, etc. The studio musicians who came in made quite a bit. A former boss of mine makes $60 hr for his bass studio time. I've also worked with film/tv scorers, orchestrators, foley artists, sound designers, game sound designers/composers.... the list goes on. If you think in terms of audio instead of music only, it really opens the options. The majority of audio jobs out there aren't entirely about music. Not only that, the pay's usually better and the hours are more reasonable generally, than interning for pennies hoping to land a low paying recording studio job.
Subject: Re: Careers in music - other than performing
by Percy | 06/10/01 at 00:10:26
A couple of years ago , Rik Emmitt of TRIUMPH fame and had a regular column in GUITAR PLAYER for a while, came here to Terrace for a seminar. He said in the early days of TRIUMPH they actually owned their PA/Lightshow and made waaaay more money renting it out to other acts/production companies than they did from giggin/record sales etc. (Start a production company)
The local music store here(SIGHT AND SOUND) sells alot of stuff.(Open a store)
Alot of the folks on this board make decent coin recording others(this would be the best job).
Just do it(whatever) better than the rest( no easy task) and you will be sucessfull.
Subject: Re: Careers in music - other than performing
by Tedster | 06/12/01 at 16:20:15
I'd add to Percy's statement about opening a store. It depends on what area you're in. If you're near a major city...DON'T...'cause everyone will go to the big chain prices-slashed places and leave you high and dry. If you're well away from a big city...you've still got catalogs and online shopping...so it's iffy there, too.
It depends on if you're looking for steady money or larger but more infrequent sums. A sound company might be fine...but you've got to know how to use it, and if you're in an area where it's Homer Okum and the Range Riders, you may not find many gigs. And, it can be a MAJOR investment.
I'd say the best money would probably be in marketing somewhere, but you may have to change locations. For lower dollar amounts, but a steady paycheck, you may think of teaching.