i'm personally not trying to fund 'gear' at the moment. i feel i have enough to get on with for a good mixing/production facility - top quality DAW/monitors/DAC/mics/instruments.
it's funding the 'space' that i am struggling with. making the leap to get the hell out of your house/apartment, and having a big enough space to really be able to work in. and actual monthly responsibility - rent! (and bills). or, having a house that has a big enough room to be able to set my stuff up. however at this stage in my life, buying or renting a large house doesn't seem feasible
at the moment i am 'trapped' with a cut down setup at the label office which is restrictive in nearly every way i can think of. part of me is grateful to have anything at all, of course, but if i'm 'doing it', i want to do it properly.
i believe that the only solution is to get a full time day job and save for a few years. i make largely electronic music (hiphop/soul/funk) and don't really record live 'bands', this is a studio for mixing, vocal tracking, etc. i am a musician/guitarist and if i DID have a decently large space, i would love to record my own guitars, drums etc, separately, i.e overdubs, although i can't imagine having a space large enough to track all at once, with a separate live room. that's daydream stuff. and i don't really want to be there recording crappy indie bands for £10 an hour.
i have had some jobs mixing for others and creating music, teaching and doing session guitar work, however it is sporadic. i don't really have enough contacts for the latter, and in the main genre i'm in, nobody seems to value decent mixing. i.e. the people i know don't want to pay for mixing.
if anyone has any advice on making the 'leap' (i understand i haven't really given you much information to work with), that'd be just lovely.
i'm trying to have my fingers in many pies with teaching and working a couple of part time music related jobs which would have been a perfect solution, but they all seem to have fallen by the wayside, all at the same time, and so it's left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. so i guess i better suck it up and get anything to pay the bills for now. that's where i'm at in my 'career'
sorry - maybe this post should be in the moan zone
