Just recently I have had to make a very important decision about the direction of my life. The mastering facility I work for is moving complexes and as a result there is no work there until the new studio is open. Despite the fact that I do a lot of recording work on the side I am unable to support my lifestyle on that alone.
So I reach one of life's many crossroads of sleepless nights, small numbers in bank accounts and looking around your living room for things you could put on eBay to make some money to buy lunch. I could get a job making coffee in a flash. I spent the majority of my years at university doing it for a crust and there is work everywhere for those who can do it. Yet, I am too proud. The day I was able to work in professional audio alone and leave my part time "shit-kicker" job behind was one of the best of my life, and to walk back into a job like that would feel like a major step backwards in my career.
What I am essentially saying is everyone who does anything in this music game wants to make a living from it, and who can blame them? It's great! So I said to myself one night, "fuck it, I'm a sound engineer", I'm not going back to a crap job for crap pay just to survive until my work exists again and began to plan how I could pull this off.
Which brings us to the point of this blog... where NF Audio is now. As you can see by the new banner at the top of the blog, I've got new digs (seems like I'm moving studios more often than I'm using them, I know). The new place is shared with Earthling Designs, which is sweet by me as I can get him to build me cool stuff and I can record his cool stuff.. It's called symbiosis or something, I think.
In a drastic career change I've actually put my skills on the (soldering) iron to use, and even stranger is that it's actually working! Enter the new branch of NF Audio: NF Audio Pro Audio Products. I've been building Reamping and Direct Inject units (see pictures) and they're selling like hotcakes. Brilliant!
Of course I am still doing lots of audio work. I'm mixing an EP for the Little Lovers in the coming weeks and next month recording the fantastic Bill Gibson singing on Ryan Elsemore's (Scruffs, The Wake Ups, The Stiffies) solo album.
So the moral of the story is that you have just read a self indulgent rant about me. No, seriously, it is that if you want to be something, a musician, and artist, an engineer, just decide that that's what you are and go do it, you'll find a way.
While you're hanging abouts, go check the new website too http://www.nfaudio.com/
Cool,
Nick.
So I reach one of life's many crossroads of sleepless nights, small numbers in bank accounts and looking around your living room for things you could put on eBay to make some money to buy lunch. I could get a job making coffee in a flash. I spent the majority of my years at university doing it for a crust and there is work everywhere for those who can do it. Yet, I am too proud. The day I was able to work in professional audio alone and leave my part time "shit-kicker" job behind was one of the best of my life, and to walk back into a job like that would feel like a major step backwards in my career.
What I am essentially saying is everyone who does anything in this music game wants to make a living from it, and who can blame them? It's great! So I said to myself one night, "fuck it, I'm a sound engineer", I'm not going back to a crap job for crap pay just to survive until my work exists again and began to plan how I could pull this off.
Which brings us to the point of this blog... where NF Audio is now. As you can see by the new banner at the top of the blog, I've got new digs (seems like I'm moving studios more often than I'm using them, I know). The new place is shared with Earthling Designs, which is sweet by me as I can get him to build me cool stuff and I can record his cool stuff.. It's called symbiosis or something, I think.
In a drastic career change I've actually put my skills on the (soldering) iron to use, and even stranger is that it's actually working! Enter the new branch of NF Audio: NF Audio Pro Audio Products. I've been building Reamping and Direct Inject units (see pictures) and they're selling like hotcakes. Brilliant!
Of course I am still doing lots of audio work. I'm mixing an EP for the Little Lovers in the coming weeks and next month recording the fantastic Bill Gibson singing on Ryan Elsemore's (Scruffs, The Wake Ups, The Stiffies) solo album.
So the moral of the story is that you have just read a self indulgent rant about me. No, seriously, it is that if you want to be something, a musician, and artist, an engineer, just decide that that's what you are and go do it, you'll find a way.
While you're hanging abouts, go check the new website too http://www.nfaudio.com/
Cool,
Nick.
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