capturing sound

    My interest in audio can be traced back to my love of music.  Around the end of fifth grade, a growing appreciation for music was beginning to take over me. I always knew music was around, but it was only then that I began to want to hear music on a daily basis. Ending the elementary phase of my life and entering middle school, I was now starting to identify with music and and the words and sounds that came out of it. 
    Not long after beginning middle school, I decided I not only wanted to hear music, I wanted to make my own.  My love for music had grown too big for just appreciation and listening.  I had to write my own.  Naturally, as a growing, emotionally distraught adolescent, I started a metal band with school friends.
    As a couple of years went by and our band grew in popularity amongst the local music scene in our city, we all felt that it was the right time to get our music onto our first recording.  After searching for a short while we finally came across someone to record us.  Though his name slipped my mind then and still now, it was in that person's audio studio that I became deeply intrigued by the recording and editing process of sound. After arriving to his studio, we hauled our equipment inside.  I set whatever it was that I was carrying down on the ground and then looked around. I remember first seeing the glass between me and the computers and mixers in the other room. I was standing in the main sound booth, in which the drums were recorded.  Another smaller sound booth was used to record guitars and vocal tracks.  I can remember walking up a short set of stairs into the main room where all the recording equipment and computers were.  It was an impressive sight to see all this audio equipment set up and even more impressive to see it all work.
   I can remember watching the owner of the studio recording something we'd play and then playing it back and listening. He would change something and mess with things in his software, and then listen to it again.  He would then change it again and hear again. Though I was completely lost and unable to make sense of what exactly he was doing, it all looked so impressive. He had a whole studio of expensive equipment and he knew how to use it well.  It was impressive to watch this man capture the sounds that came out of our instruments and arrange them together into one piece. I think that it was then that a new interest started to grow.  I wanted to be able to do all those things he could, for myself and for others.  I wanted to be able to record our music ourselves rather than going to someone else.  I wanted to be able to record for those who couldn't. I just wanted to record.
   Now, after studying film and all, my interest in recording has grown into an interest in not only recording but also editing in both music and film.  Wherever I can end up, whether it be music or film, I will be happy as long as it is in audio.