That helped me to get enough gear together to start a little home studio. I continued to put all of the money I made from these gigs into purchasing more and more gear, especially microphones. My band was using it to record and play backing tracks for our live performance, and that evolved into live recording some of the bands I was sharing the stage with. That year, I went out and bought my first system that I could use to multitrack record a full band, a Digidesign Digi 002 with an 8-channel Behringer ADA8000. Soon after, I went back to my friend Eddie’s place for a few demo tracks, and he had upgraded to a Pro Tools system, and my whole world changed. I ended up buying that little rig from him for cheap when he was short on his car payment one month, and that became my first recording setup. A couple years later, I spent some time recording hip-hop tracks for a coworker using his sampler, beat machine, and a TASCAM 4-track cassette recorder. I got my first taste of music production when I was 15 and my band at the time recorded our first EP at our friend Eddie’s home studio, which was a dark basement with a couple of “isolation booths” that were just a bunch of old mattresses acting as walls. I would play on Windows 95’s Sound Recorder for hours and hours, making little one-minute audio stories from sound bites of The Simpsons, South Park, and just random sound effects. I’ve had an interest in recording since I was about 11 years old and my family got our first home computer. Mystery Street Recording has been in business since 2007 and has been constantly growing in size and services ever since. How long have you been into recording and audio engineering? What kind of gear did you use when you were first starting out? How did your interest evolve into a full-time vocation? How long has your current studio been in business? I became very good at editing music while trying to fix my own performances! I like to say that I can play a lot of different instruments, but none of them very well, which is why I had to be an engineer. Then I got really into playing banjo in my 20s. In a later band, I picked up a little bass, keys, and percussion. My best friend also played, and he had way better chops than I had, so when we eventually formed a band, I became the vocalist. Like most audio engineers I’ve met, I first wanted to be some kind of rock star, and I got my first guitar when I was 13. I vividly recall my sister refusing to let me leave her bedroom until I memorized all of the lyrics to Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice.” I couldn’t have been older than nine then.ĭo you play any instruments yourself? What inspired you to get into music? I was obsessed with my brother’s CD collection filled with the Pixies, Goldfinger, Nirvana, and NOFX albums. Having an older brother and sister helped with that, since they introduced me to some really cool music early in life. I’ve had an interest in music since I was a kid. I am president and lead audio engineer at Mystery Street Recording Company in Chicago, Illinois.
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