By: Johnny
Working With My New Audio Interface
I was having trouble finding a topic or a hands-on experience that I could perform for this week's prompted post, and then discuss with you guys here. Turns out, my topic and my hands-on experience that I have chose to do has been on my mind a lot more than you'd might think. Through some serious thought, I found myself at the crossroads between my own personal interests and my college assignments. My hands-on experience that I will be writing about is how I have been experimenting with my new audio interface bundle that I've purchased for recording music.
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PreSonus Audiobox Studio
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Prompt post #8: Practicing Your Knowledge, instructs the blogger (me, in this case) to attempt a hands-on experience that will allow them to learn about their job field. The hands-on experience that I have attempted, and will continue to do is working with my new, PreSonus Audiobox Studio. This audio interface that I've bought is much more advanced that what I've been previously using to record music, and with these advancements and the overall professionalism of this tool, my music will sound the part but also will allow me to record with great ease, customizability, and efficiency. The bundle that I picked up came with the audio interface, the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), Studio One Artist 3, two microphones, headphones, and the cables to use the microphones.
Considering the focus of our team blog is media and communication, I figured what better hands-on experience is there for me to talk about for this post?
Writing, but particularly recording music has been an interest of mine for a while now. Working in a recording studio, recording all different kind of instruments, working with record labels and various artists; all of that seems like a practical and enjoyable career for me. Maybe not exactly like I'm describing or as glamorous as you're imagining, but a job that's somewhat similar. Similar in the sense that there's a team of individuals working together, with the help of technology, to obtain some sort of goal or to produce some sort of a reward.
On productionhub.com, under Jobs in Film, Television, Video and Digital Media Production, there are plenty of different job occupations listed that apply to our job field while still catering to my personal interests. To list a few, there's a Videographer, Social Media Video Editor/Producer, Sound Mixer/Editor, Broadcast Designer. All of these jobs are for real companies in the real world.
Working hands-on this weekend with my new audio interface has already revealed a few hard truths about recording music and working in this field, the first one being that what these people do for a living is some complex stuff. It might look nice, easy, and fluent on the TV or the internet or wherever your enjoying the content, but the people behind it are hard-working and experienced people who put in a whole lot of time to make it look or sound as good as it does. Another truth that my hands-on experience has revealed to me is that, in order to care enough to actually invest yourself in the project your working on, you have to enjoy doing it. If you're not enjoying yourself working in this field, work in a different field that is simpler and pays more. Lastly, I've learned that you need a great amount of patience to work in the field of media and media production. There'll be times when things aren't going your way, and there'll be times when things are just going slow. There will also be times when you have to wait on other people to finish their work before you can proceed, and all of this is just part of the job. Teamwork is everything in this job field.
Works Cited
"Jobs in Film, Television, Video and Digital Media Production." Production HUB. Web. productionhub.com/jobs.
"Audiobox Studio." PreSonus. Web. presonus.com/products/AudioBox-Studio.
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