living and learning!!

Something I love to do is theatre sound. i love doing this because the stress, tension, smile on peoples face’s, usually the parents sooo proud of the kids, but also because of what its taught me!

When I was about to turn 21 I was asked to do a show for a local dancing school, which I usually engineer for, and turned it down because of studies and the fact the opening night was on my birthday. The morning of the opening night of the show, the producer and director of the show (the same person in this case) rang me in tears, practically begging me to do the show because the guy they had in to replace me was ruining it for her. So being a man who can’t say no, I cancelled my night out and went to work.

On arrival I was met with the happiest women I’ve ever come across. With a bottle of verve clique and a envelope of cash (payment guys!! Nothing dodgy!!).  The guy who had been doing the show turned up not soon after I started fixing his useless patching, mic placements and we got in to a heated argument. He was telling me he was a studio engineer of X amount of years and he wouldn’t have some little toe rag tell him how shit he was and why he was making the mistakes, and the mess he had created. He stormed off and the show went a head near perfect.

The next day I turned up to find the desk had been tampered with and my script and notes were all missing. How petty!! The moral to this is that I learnt a lot about my self and my ability not only to do something I love well, but the feeling of being in demand.

Pro Tools against the world

In today’s competitive world, reputation is everything. Over the last 5+ years Pro Tools has been the leading software for most music production work. Pro Tools has always led the way in music production software, being the best at most functions, the easiest, and fastest and, unfortunately the most expensive.Other software makers have always followed suit, in terms of accessibility and performance until now….!

Recently Apple bought out logic’s creators, Emagic, in 2002, and gave the Pro Tools creator’s, DigiDesign, a big freight. To use an up-to-date version of Logic you have to have a Mac, almost making the user feel like the member of an exclusive club, which in my opinion is a very cleaver trick from Apple. Although most software packages are pretty much the same, ‘once you’ve used one, you’ve used them all!’, Pro Tools’ influence has been  extremely apparent in most of them, up until recently.

I use both Logic and Pro Tools, and I use them both for different things. I will record on Pro Tools, mix and master on that, where as I use Logic for creating music, sound to picture work and some mixes, depending on what sound I want. They both have there pros and cons, and would recommend them to anyone.

Hello!!

hey! My name is Matt Wharton, I’m 21 years old! My passion’s are mainly music and football. I love most genre’s of music but my main influential artist’s include The Stone Roses, The Smiths, Morrissey, Arctic Monkeys and most trance artist’s. I want to use this blog to talk about relevant subjects with both football and all aspects of music.