I’m the production manager and audio engineer for an independent venue, but I also do enough extracurricular, 1099 work that I needed to start spending money to write off on my taxes.

So, I bought a nice PC a few years ago, started using a friend’s old laptop (that I just replaced with my recent, copilot-infected purchase) to take multitrack recordings for local artists at work, and have been making my way into the mixing and mastering world at home. I figured getting some experience on the studio side would improve my live sound skills and give me something of a fallback, just in case.

Not quite sure how that’s panning out, but I have learned a few things and have gotten some decent sounds just recording with standard, live audio gear!