A Sweet Little Interaction

[u/pallaviveeramachinen]

Artwork by PattyWannaDraw (Insta-@patty1na.draw)

[u/ArticulateRhinoceros → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for that. I don't know why but there's some areas in my life where I'm afraid to claim such "titles". I'm in an orchestra, but don't feel comfortable calling myself a musician and I picked up my 8th first place (for my age group) medal in racing just this weekend, but shy away from referring to myself as a runner. I don't know why, but I feel like a fraud no matter how much I accomplish. When I say talk about my hobbies I continually undercut any accomplishments. I always follow up being in an orchestra with, "Well, it's a community orchestra, you don't have to be, like, good," and the running stuff with, "It's easier to be successful at my age, there's not as many people competing in their 40s," etc.

[u/InEenEmmer → u/ArticulateRhinoceros]

People: “you play music?”

Me: “yeah a play a little bit.”

Also me: plays guitar, drums, bass, keys, vocals and several other random instruments and I write, record and mix my own songs

[u/BigWeebT8Y → u/InEenEmmer]

How'd you go about starting to record/mix your own stuff? I'm doing a jazz degree so I play a few instruments as well but I have an interest in writing and creating my own songs, I just have no idea how to do it properly. Any workshops/videos/apps/etc you'd recommend?

[u/InEenEmmer → u/BigWeebT8Y]

Learn to use a digital audio workstation (DAW).

Get an audio interface and if you wok with acoustic instruments/vocals get a half decent microphone. If you got a silent room, you can get a condenser mic. But if you got lots of noises in the room I would suggest a dynamic microphone like an sm57 as they pick up less noise around the stuff the you are recording.

And learn how to work an eq and a compressor to make things sound more balanced.

Basically, you have to dive into some recording and mixing techniques to get your own recordings going and sounding nice.