No, you can't intern at my studio. (Here's why.)
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It smells weird there anyway.
Only since you were there 😘
I realized this as soon as I graduated from recording school. To any up and coming engineer, build your own space
I don’t want to. Don’t worry
You are bloody spot on with pointing towards youtube. You can learn ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING on youtube. It's bloody amazing!
Thanks to legends like glen fricker and yourself i am slowly learning the "ropes"
When it comes to home recording, which i think is the perfect start. I bloody love it and can't honestly thank you guys (youtube educators) enough.
Your videos personally have shaped how i record on reaper. You are excellent at what you do here.
Thankyou. 🤘😀
You bloody are bloody amazing bloody
@@citystarproductions6703 bloody funny stuff.
His tutorials on Reaper are ten! Learned a good deal from him - excellent teacher!
Adam, Your videos on Reaper were so valuable to me getting up and running using it. Yor skills are top notch!!
Great advice. Truthful
I came to terms with the fact that I won't be able to get an internship in a such small niche relatively quickly and then I've started to build my own business. But now I'm at that point where I literally can't find a country to live in because mine gone bonkers and I'm not allowed in any developed country unless I have a job offering from someone. IT guys are fine, but us musicians are kinda focked in that sense.
I know someone who did a degree in music production and I couldn't understand why, when there's so much stuff out there on RUclips. Of course, you could say that about any degree, but there are hardly any jobs out there in music production. Like many people, I am self-taught, and I've really enjoyed the process of getting where I am. Just a couple of weeks ago one of my tracks was played on 'BBC Introducing', thanks to RUclips channels like yours. Keep up the good work.
Good point. I did my degree before RUclips existed, just on that cusp- now it’s very different. But I can say for a fact no position I’ve ever had in media has actually asked me to see my credentials- it’s always about talent, skill set and work ethic. Hard to go wrong with those 3 things.
My first experience of recording in the studio was in 1989 and I was mesmerised by the engineer pushing buttons and sliding faders and wondered how he knew what he was doing. I then spent the past few decades recording as a pro guitarist in some great studios but remained intrigued by what the producer was doing. I wished that I had the knowledge. I retired from playing live a few years ago but decided to put my own studio together because I never lost the passion for recording music. I bought all of the necessary plugins, daws etc and realised I still had no idea what to do but thanks to the likes of yourself, Warren, Glenn etc, I'm starting to produce music at home so you are right, the education is out there and people are so lucky that they have RUclips etc because I wished I had this type of access in 1989! Keep teaching the masses Adam!
Appreciate your honesty, and what you say is sensible. :o)
I've learned a MASSIVE amount from RUclips. Dave Rat, Dan Worral, White Sea, Adam Neely are my personal favourites.
I started learning through RUclips on 2020 and 2023 now I have my own studio In my hometown where I am writing music , recording , mixing and mastering everyones stuff like 200 songs and earning some money too.. can't be more than happy to youtube and your channel Is one of the first channels that I grabbed when I first Installed Reaper. THANKYOU ❤️
Great stuff! This really is where a lot of our industry is headed, glad to know you’re doing well 👍
@@adamsteelproducer Thankyou so much. You are a great Teacher 🙏
Great video!
Adam, what you suggest about asking good questions and using RUclips (which I often refer to as "RUclips University"), is great advice!! Take care man.👍✌🙂
Well explained, Adam.
I learned to use tape on the machine that was in Smart Studios for the Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins sessions. That was 20 years ago. And the last time I ever used tape. Entering the industry around our age was definitely something else. We were taught the old industry from the mentors who were involved in it. Then it immediately changed.
Napster happened.
when they started stealing musicians' music
you can make no product and sell it for 1/4000th of a cent and expect to stay in business
Any good ideas of where to point young people to start their audio careers these days?
This is good talk. I think the influx of home producers and audio engineers was not just because of the surge of digital but also because of the pandemic. You'd really have to know someone in the industry to actually accomplish anything. So I'd say socializing and building circles is very important for aspirants.
Free Multitracks from pro sessions, would have killed for those when I first started
There you go spoiling all my dreams!
Technology is deflationary. The Studios can be a one man band like you say. I'd say what you learn on the internet helps more with specifics, an internship at a studio would help pickup the indirect things you can't catch on the internet as easily.
Just to put some hope out there. I am fully self taught, all from RUclips and I am now a fully professional mixing and mastering engineer! I make my full time living mixing and mastering. It took 6 years but I did it, all from RUclips and practice.
Is the desk screen a touch screen as i have been looking for a massive one. or just a monitor?
Just a 4k monitor. Touch screens are a wonderful idea and a terrible source of back pain! Anything over a certain size seems to be ergonomically unfeasible long term. I’ve tried…
@@adamsteelproducer Thank you for the reply... big 4K mouse and a 1 channel daw controller will do for me then cheers
I played with guys that recorded every practice on ADAT in a shed set up like a studio, that was 20 years ago
But Adam, I thought you moved into a bigger home to have a spare room for me. 😆
I can't wait for AdamGPT the AI producer/engineer expert.
We've gone from 'Pop Will Eat Itself' to 'The Studio "Industry" IS Eating Itself'.
The recording business is now a Shop Front for sales of gear that will make very few people a liveable income.
More of a hobby 'industry', with more time being spent producing 'tutorials'.
Even before the Interwebz, less that 1 in a 1,000 efforts at a saleable record ever sold significantly.
So popular music always was a 'Dream Machine' for anyone who got involved.
The world of recording, that used to feed off the aspirants has gone the same way.
There's still a little bit of 'Big Money' left in the AV world - Movies, diminishing TV productions, and of course sound for Video Games.
So unless you’ve found a niche slot it’s difficult to stay afloat without diversifying … a LOT of diversifying.
There was a recording studio in my high school. I loved it however it seemed like a fruitless career path whenever you'd speak to college graduates. And to just have the resources back then to do it was difficult. This is about 2004
If you could teach an intern to do all the edits, think of how much mixing time you would have. It'll double your creative time and efficiency.
Easier said than done. It takes so much time to teach an intern how to work properly, then you have to double check everything, I’ve found you actually lose time.
Source: I had 11 interns in the media company over 4 years. Lovely kids, didn’t actually save me much time.
And I’m not in a position to pay a professional staff member right now so….
@@adamsteelproducer Sure, but even when you hire somebody who isn't an intern, they're still going to have to learn your methods, work habits, etc. You'll be paying them the whole time they are getting spun up on working in your studio. That's why a lot of times interns will end up getting offered a full time job at the end of their internship... They basically did their "training" for free.
Come to Atlanta. We have so many interns lol
I use an Assistant all the time. Is not like this in a music hub. I started off assisting and tracking 3-5 days a week.
I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, I’m saying the number of opportunities is going down and the number of applicants is going up. It’s unsustainable. A sample size of one doesn’t make a meaningful statistic.
I just started recording by myself with shit gear. Learned more than I ever did at college through sheer trial and error.
The traditional education/apprenticeship structure really doesn't apply to sound engineering these days (and many other things), but so many people feel that's the ONLY way they can ever lean anything. Books, Google. and RUclips videos will get you all you need.
I'm in audio school and in the 3 years of scholarship we need to do 4 months of internship and actually the response is quite inconsistent through out studios (I'm in Paris btw)
It is actually true, every studio can run with only 1 guy so a student interning doesn't really have any sense. I got to intern only in big studios with tape etc
"But, ya know, everything is out there for you. So, go get it."
Came out of nowhere after a primarily bleak tone, was this a joke? 😅
I get that you can use RUclips to learn, but how exactly do you get work in the industry without internships? Internships were always the first step to getting work in production for me and this video kinda slapped me in the face lol. Any suggestions?
You get to a competent level first then dry hire studios as needed or build your own. There just aren’t enough studios per student these days. It can happen but it’s a moonshot. Also make friends and get to know studio people, they’re much more likely to take on people they know and like than just some kid applying from school
Money talks b****s** walks
The thing this guy is trying to say without saying it is that we don't need expensive recording or mixing engineers or overpriced studios anymore. As a former engineer who worked his way into and climbed up the ladder in a pro studio. If you are going to go a pricey studio wait until you are signed and let the label pay for it. Otherwise, you can do it yourself with your own music and if you do it a lot consistently you can become as good as any pro and maybe better because you understand your music better than anyone else. Or you can become an in the box engineer and undercut the cost of the "analog" competitors with price and out compete with a mobile studio. But it takes a lot of time and practice, however not anywhere near as long as it used to due to the availability of information and relatively cheap startup costs compared to a brick and mortar studio. And if you are struggling you can get help from AI equipped plugins like the Isotope stuff or ask any number of engineers who will answer questions for free and mentor you for a small fee.
Watch youtube……..yup, thats why I’m here.
how you get that NYXL sticker👀
Doesn’t it come in a pack?
@@adamsteelproducer ive got flats and rounds for my basses from them never got a sticker
He’s so right about the glorified film studio. There are people who make music. And then there are people who make content for RUclips.
What, home tape machines were good if you bought mid range gear. Also Controversial opinion but "big" studios now a days are redundant and a scam imo especially for solo musicians. Atleast where im at in canada prices are beyond stupid to the point you can just build your own setup. I think most rates i see around here are around 150-300 an hour.
Can I intern at your studio??? 😂😂
So I'll see you on Monday?...
The problem is, you're talking about today's workflow, but about the interns as if they know nothing. With the internet, interns today know more than they ever did, so they most likely ask a lot less "What's that? What are you doing? Why are you doing?..." You're trying to make the video current, but I don't think this really applies anymore. And not to say that there aren't interns that would come clueless to an internship, but more that if you ask for a portfolio, or a few questions before inviting the intern, I'm sure you'll get a feel if they'll give you a headache or not. Do you not agree?
I'm now finishing college, as I learn already knowing everything my teachers are trying to teach me, because I learn very well on my own, from the internet. I don't think I'll need to go to Uni because of this, but I'm scared that if I don't go to Uni, and I try to intern, people will respond like you did, even though I'm not at all clueless...
Hope that makes sense
And please tell me if this comment is just a massive cope, I want to be grounded in reality, maybe I just don't understand how much there is to know.
Thanks!
I see where you’re coming from, but it’s not the ability of applicants that is in question- it’s the landscape of the industry that has changed, and will continue to change. You may think you know about mixing/tracking/whatever, but so did I at 21 when I left uni. Turns out I knew very little that was practical for real world situations, but of course that was pre-RUclips so there wasn’t much to learn that stuff from.
I’ve had 10+ interns, and lemme tell ya, each one of them had a portfolio that was truly awful by pro standards. But that was ok- they’re there to learn. But we took them on (over a few years) as a media company with room to teach video, marketing, studio stuff where possible- and they were useful and helpful there.
In a studio-only context though, there’s just not enough hours in the day to teach someone from scratch. Bigger studios can still do that, but they’re all closing day by day! Abbey road got saved from closure, Maida Vale just closed, Air and Townhouse are gone etc etc…
Opportunity is out there, you’ve just got to be aware now of broader horizons if you want to maximize your chances. That’s what the videos really all about, despite a few naysayers trying to argue their own points…
@@adamsteelproducer Thanks for replying!
Was literally going to message you to intern after you finished the tour, good job I didn't, although I would be offended if you ghosted haha. This video made me realise why I shouldn't be offended, very good points!
I prefer back then. The music was better.
You can intern at ours.
ooooooooooh whyyyyyyyyyyy....anyway...I am too old and too deaf for internship in a studio^^
Why would anyone want to? No offense or anything…
You may have missed the point. It’s not a video about me specifically.
@@adamsteelproducer Ah - sorry, I always get caught off guard by click bait
It’s not click bait though, I give a full and detailed reasoning of my leading statement. It’s just that “my studio” refers to anyone who runs such an establishement in 2023, and as such I hope this video can be used by people in my position to eloquently explain without wasting their most limited resource, their time.
@@adamsteelproducer I am not trying to disrestpect, but: "your girlfriend might be cheating on you (here's how to tell)" < That is clickbait in its most basic form, even if the topic is well covered, you're still being baited. Your video title follows that same hysteria. It's okay.. its proven results, right? worked on me
What, I can't...oh no... now what