Today I have only one thing to write about. That one thing is balance. You know, the good with the bad. Have you ever noticed that no matter how good things are or how good things can get, something bad will always happen? I don't know why or what it is, but every time things are smooth and everything's running fine, somehow a pothole still seems to find it's way into the road!
For me, I've spent over 12 years trying to master the art of sound, and sound production. Music engineering seems to be an art that takes a lifetime to fully master. While still there have been professional sound producers who have attended some of the fanciest schools around who still don't have it all figured out. And will still need to hire, a good sound mastering engineer to finalize their pre-productions.
Funny, to know that all those years of schooling still don't prepare us for the years of hands on skill we must acquire to become a Mastering Professional. I could slap my knee on that one! It's true, take a look for yourself if you've had any production experience or know of anyone who has worked with audio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastering_engineer#Education_and_Experience
It's not all about what they teach you in the schools huh? Takes a little expertise in the field too. Believe me, I know because I've been battling with this stuff for ever 12 years now. And still, I'm only almost to where I want to be. If anyone was to tell you that they know everything about it, well that would be a sure sign that they know squat!
I've been at the point where everything sounded so good, I was up to like 6.2 digital, then just like that my computer goes down. Dang-it! Then after buying a brand new one, getting it set back up and loading back all my projects -boom! That one goes down as well! Like, man right when I think I'm all good and gravy life wants to rock my world with something new.
So what did I do? I upgraded, reinstalled & went out to buy new stuff just so I could be back to where I was at least. Glad to say that I'm now back up and running again. Just now with the stuff that I bought, I can get up to 7.1 true HD sound without having to tweak my equipment to emulate 7.1. Now, I should be able to tweak it to like 10.2 emulated if I wanted. So look out George Lucas because here I come!
Yeah, I tell you it always takes something bad to happen for something good to come along. I'm guessing that it's just mother nature balancing herself off. First making me think I was being screwed around, just to actually make my way/life easier. Yep, that's good old mother nature for ya.
Got to have balance!
Libra
May 09, 2009
May 09, 2009
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K. Rahmaan
Vision is all you'll need, everything else will come.
