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Originally Posted by Jay M  This is a great discussion.
I am a staff engineer of sorts. I work in a christian organization where my primary role is to master current church sermons and do restoration work on the old ones. It's full time, great benefits and close to home. It's just not glamorous like what some of you get to do.
My primary role is only a portion of what I do. There are dozens of other things I do to fill each day such-a Maintain equipment, spec out equipment for various projects, work on in-house projects and pretty much anything I know how to do.
What do other full time guys do all day? Do you do actual mixing for 8 hours a day? Does it get tedious? Is the job everything you dreamed it would or is it just work?
thanks,
~Jay |
I have my own studio and freelance at others but some studios employ me frequently enoguh for me to be considered the staff engineer. For a few years I worked at an ahsram (an indian yoga retreat) They had 20 years of backlogged ADAT tapes and stuff that was originally tape that had been transfered to them. It's chanting over sitar and tamboura drones mostly and it's all in Sanskrit.
My job was to turn these recordings into proper sellable cds for people to meditate to. I spent most of my day fantasizing about Pro Tools bouncing faster than realtime. lol the standard chant is about 15 minutes and has um well very little variation. Fortunately the studio was in the master yogi's personal library so I used the time to learn about hinduism and indian culture. The chanting is designed to put you in a trance, imagine working on it 8 hours at a time without understanding a word. Once in awhile I got to record a indian style band though, with harmonium, sitar, tablas and the like. Very talented people and the music is like it's from a different planet than western stuff.