When You're not a sound engineer, what should you call yourself?

[doink_rules]

- audio recording enthusiast. 

[jamming_papu]

when you own a recording setup/studio and you help bands and artist to create music and good sounds and even sacrifice your money and time in order to develop and enhance our local music you are a .....






audio hero 

[LouieAzcona]

when you own a recording setup/studio and you help bands and artist to create music and good sounds and even sacrifice your money and time in order to develop and enhance our local music you are a .....






audio hero 

Audio villain meron? haha!

[smarty]

so what if you dont have a degree, but you have your own project studio and you profit from it. What are you called?

I just dont know what to tell my mama.

businessman..

[LouieAzcona]

businessman..

Yeah. thats what she tell her friends. kunwari mayaman kami. haha!

[LouieAzcona]

- audio recording enthusiast. 

I am very much an enthusiast. But then, profit and clients are now involved - it became a job. Whats the title? 

[abyssinianson]

I am very much an enthusiast. But then, profit and clients are now involved - it became a job. Whats the title?  

business man. this theme is kinda getting repetitive, no?

[abyssinianson]

Yeah. thats what she tell her friends. kunwari mayaman kami. haha!

not necessarily a bad thing but like everyone with a BA knows, not all businesses are profitable and results in mountains of wealth and there lies the challenge of making it profitable.

[doink_rules]

I am very much an enthusiast. But then, profit and clients are now involved - it became a job. Whats the title? 

hmmm. audio recording business enthusiast. 

[superwup]

Call yourself president, that title can you give yourself without any problem if you are the owner of the company even if it is a "one man" company.................

Sample : President Skunkyfunk

SOUNDS good 

Maybe even better than Gloria 

[skunkyfunk]

Call yourself president, that title can you give yourself without any problem if you are the owner of the company even if it is a "one man" company.................

Sample : President Skunkyfunk

SOUNDS good  

Maybe even better than Gloria  

Actually mas mahirap nga eh. Kasi ikaw rin ang janitor, secretary at cook.  Minsan pa nga drayber ng mga customer pag wala nang tricycle papunta sa sakayan.  Ano kaya tawag dun Mr. superwup?  

 

[LouieAzcona]

Call yourself president, that title can you give yourself without any problem if you are the owner of the company even if it is a "one man" company.................

Sample : President Skunkyfunk

SOUNDS good  

Maybe even better than Gloria  

hmmmmmmmmmm. I dont know man. I think ive said a lot lately that i dont wanna reply to this one.

but its worth a quote. hehe!

 

[wickedgroove]

audio slave 

[jamming_papu]

Audio villain meron? haha!

meron din. 

[inigo]

audio slave 

FTW

[LouieAzcona]

. in fact, i've been to a few of the vocational training sessions at places like sweetwater

Im so jealous right now. haha!

[LouieAzcona]

For me, I believe the proper term should be Audio Specialist.

I think this one's safe. pero nakakatako parin gamitin. haha!

So the people who drive trains in europe are called engineerS?

[mikep]

Haven't you heard of the term train engineers?  They run engines.  Train engines.  he he.

[LouieAzcona]

Haven't you heard of the term train engineers?  They run engines.  Train engines.  he he.

No I havent. Im sure there are engineers working on the systems, but its cool to know that the driver is also called engineer! ang yabang na niya! haha!

[abyssinianson]

Im so jealous right now. haha!

i see the posts locally sa Manila and the surrounding places and there are frequently workshops being held to take advantage of...go to em. whatever is being taught by whoever is teaching the seminar, go see what they have to say. music production is an ongoing learning experience so you should be a sponge and be voracious student. i've been to quite a few over the years -free and paid -and it is always a good learning experience. Sweetwater is one of the bigger places were they get bigger names to drop by and do seminars but then there are also product companies like Ableton, Digidesign and Native Instruments which have a pretty good rep department and constantly have seminars. I haven't been to winter music conference the last few years but that gathering is always awesome for gearheads because even though it is primarily a dance festival, lots of gear people who show up at NAMM, show up at WMC too and do workshops.

i know for one thing that there are quite a few respected studio professionals in Manila that I'd love to hear talk and pass on some tips in a workshop. if i do get a chance to visit in the future, i'll make sure to attend some if they have em.

[bloodshedd]

Tsk tsk tsk....

"When You're not a sound engineer, what should you call yourself?"

---the same question haunted me for a while... I got a shot at recording some music stuff and VO's... .

...even a chorale album... and I got credited as a recording engineer.

I was both happy and really annoyed  because I'm not formally trained on the craft (accounting swak talaga sakin) of recording...
It just happened that these people bought some stuff from me, found out that there is no one to run the gear and asked me to be the guy to run their newly-bought gear...


Siguro nga RECORDING GEEK na lang yung tawag ko sa sarili ko...

[wiccan8888]

dapat pinoy na pinoy, hindi ba may mamang sorbetero, kayo naman mga mamang rekordero.


" ... mamang rekordero tayo'y sumayaw, mixer mong hawak iyong ikaway ... mga banda sa iyo'y naghihintay ..." (uuyyyyyyy kinanta pa talaga)

[makinao]

I wrote a paper for a class a couple of years ago along these lines. Here are a couple of excerpts from the paper.

"Sa wikang Aleman, ang titulong Tonnmeister na karaniwang binibigay sa mga inhinyerong nakapagaral ng kursong sumasakop sa mga larangan ng akustika, elektronika, at arkitektura. Ang salitang ito ay tambalan ang mga salitang tonn na katumbas ng salitang tunog, at meister na katumbas ng salitang dalubhasa."

"Kung ito ang susunding pormula, ang mabubuong salita ay dapat dalub-tunog. ...... Bagama’t kailangan pa ng mas masusing imbestigasyon para matiyak ang pinanggalingan ng dalub-, maaring gamitin ito katambal ng tunog ng walang pangamba dahil laganap ang paggamit ng pormulang ito sa pagkilala ng pagkabihasa sa isang larangan, at ang konsepto ng indibidual na salita. Bagama’t ako’y serioso sa hangad na makabuo ng sapat na salita, di ko maiwasang matuwa at matawa sa ginagawa ko. Minsan, naikwento ko kay Prop. Felipe De Leon Jr. (isang kapwa dalub-tunog) ang ginagawa kong ito. Bagama’t malalim niyang sinuri ang mga salitang binanggit ko, natuwa rin siya sapagkat nakaranas din siya ng suliranin ko. Napagkasunduan namin na ang pagtanggap ng bagong salita ay mangyayari lamang kapag may magsusulong nito. Maaari nang ashan na sa lahat ng pagkakataon, sisimulan ko na ang paggamit ng salitang dalub-tunog, hindi lamang sa akin, kundi sa lahat ng kapwa kong gumagalaw sa larangan ng tunog."

[skyturn]

Actually mas mahirap nga eh. Kasi ikaw rin ang janitor, secretary at cook.  Minsan pa nga drayber ng mga customer pag wala nang tricycle papunta sa sakayan.  Ano kaya tawag dun Mr. superwup?  

 

hmmm... that's customer service... hihi...

[skyturn]

a title becomes of a man if that's what he practices...
of course in the old days mas applicable yun
ngayon may mga specialization hence nagkaroon na ng "professionalism" ng work.
but these apply only to mainstream 'livelihood', for regulation purposes.

the arts is very dynamic... and no amount of degree can replace experience.
marami kayang musikero na inde naman music graduate...
mga pintor na inde naman painting graduate
graphic artist na inde naman art graduate...

i wouldn't worry about titles if you ask me...
let the people decide... such kind of work is something that is not gauged by how much you've studied
in the classroom... but rather, the kind of work that you've put out.

"music entrepreneur" kaya?