Studio ended up really cool yesterday, which I figured even though I'd been unexcited about it earlier in the week. I got assigned another big project as far as getting the studio featured on another web site. It isn't difficult work, and it means I'm useful to them for this much longer. Matt, the engineer that is supposedly supervising me directly (even though he's been out of town a lot since I started) said he would be glad to hear what I've done so far when I've had studio time, and give me suggestions and answer more detailed questions. And I sat in on another session with the owner/chief engineer. It was badly-recorded music, and he seemed glad to have someone in there to "suffer" through it with him. He asked if I was following what he was doing, and I asked about a few things, basically just confirming that I understood certain parts of his method. He asked if I was developing a workflow in my studio work, and I talked to him some about the particular issues I've come up against, and he explained a couple of things and said those would be good questions to ask and have Matt show me about, as I intended. He explained some more procedures regarding another task he did after that, burning a master to a data-tape format that I wasn't familiar with.
I think he's pretty impressed with my ears and with the way I've been able to come in and quickly learn enough to functionally work in the rooms on my own. My only unhappy thought of the day was he asked if I also do maintenance, like equipment and cable repair and so on. Which I don't, but I told him I'm completely interested in learning how. The reason that's a negative is because I think he's trying to figure out if he has a use for me as a staff assistant. But part of that job seems to be that sort of equipment upkeep and repair, which I unfortunately don't know how to do. I'm not sure how much "interested and eminently trainable" counts in his mind if that's really what he's thinking of. Of course I don't know for sure that this is why he asked, but it made me feel like I'd just lost the opportunity to maybe get asked for a job there because of not having that particular skill. But, that's just the way it is. I don't know how to do those things, if they're willing to train me I will learn it fast and well, but I would not say "yes" and then put myself in a position of having to maintain/repair that kind of equipment without actually knowing how. Maybe some people could "fake" that or make do, but I wouldn't feel that I could or should get by with that for something like this.
Outside of this, I do think I've impressed him with what I can hear in the music, with my hours that I'll put in (I stayed late a few times, and stayed till about 8pm with him yesterday, when he left, and he thanked me for sticking around), with the fact that I'm interested enough to do things like go to the WAM meeting, and so on. I think he's taking me seriously in my desire to learn this specific skill, rather than as a student just kind of checking it out. So all that... I don't know if it means there could be a job for me out of it or maybe that he'd consider letting me freelance out of there, like I want to, or not. It's just rolling around in my mind and I'm trying not to think or worry too much about it because I'm not going to know one way or the other what's going to happen with it yet.
Today I did get to go shooting today for the first time in a couple of weeks. I'm frustrated that I can't seem to work the shooting in even once a week. I have time, but it's dependent upon enough other things (range hours, someone to accompany me, studio schedule) that it just isn't happening. In one sense, that's just as well, it's money I'm not spending if I don't go. But I enjoy it and I'm frustrated because I can't progress in it faster because I'm not even getting to do it once a week regularly.
Today I rented the .22 again, just for the lesser expense of the ammo. I shot at varying distances. Even did a little at 50 feet, and one set of 10 rounds were a few inches high but nicely grouped. The next was all over the place again. My accuracy was going in and out to some degree, at all distances. I started out really well, lost it a little, found it again, and so on. I did much more of my shooting at 25 feet this time, and I did have much greater accuracy than I had before. Right at the end, I was really zoning into it again. That feeling where the distance between the gun and the target pretty much disappears, and just as if it was right in front of you, you know without question that the gun is pointed directly at the center of the target. I was shooting rounds one after the other. Bang. Bang. Bang. Putting them all right into my little "x" in my little square. And right when I was just getting going in that zone, the range was closing. So I had to quit. I was glad to have ended on a good note, but I could have used a couple more hours right in that place, if I could have stayed there. Focused, and not thinking about anything else, not thinking about stresses, problems, things I have to do, things I'm not feeling good about. Just the gun and the target. I really enjoy the shooting that way, and the way it's good for me like that is another reason I wish I could do more of it.
Generally speaking for yesterday and today, I'm low but even, moodwise.
I think he's pretty impressed with my ears and with the way I've been able to come in and quickly learn enough to functionally work in the rooms on my own. My only unhappy thought of the day was he asked if I also do maintenance, like equipment and cable repair and so on. Which I don't, but I told him I'm completely interested in learning how. The reason that's a negative is because I think he's trying to figure out if he has a use for me as a staff assistant. But part of that job seems to be that sort of equipment upkeep and repair, which I unfortunately don't know how to do. I'm not sure how much "interested and eminently trainable" counts in his mind if that's really what he's thinking of. Of course I don't know for sure that this is why he asked, but it made me feel like I'd just lost the opportunity to maybe get asked for a job there because of not having that particular skill. But, that's just the way it is. I don't know how to do those things, if they're willing to train me I will learn it fast and well, but I would not say "yes" and then put myself in a position of having to maintain/repair that kind of equipment without actually knowing how. Maybe some people could "fake" that or make do, but I wouldn't feel that I could or should get by with that for something like this.
Outside of this, I do think I've impressed him with what I can hear in the music, with my hours that I'll put in (I stayed late a few times, and stayed till about 8pm with him yesterday, when he left, and he thanked me for sticking around), with the fact that I'm interested enough to do things like go to the WAM meeting, and so on. I think he's taking me seriously in my desire to learn this specific skill, rather than as a student just kind of checking it out. So all that... I don't know if it means there could be a job for me out of it or maybe that he'd consider letting me freelance out of there, like I want to, or not. It's just rolling around in my mind and I'm trying not to think or worry too much about it because I'm not going to know one way or the other what's going to happen with it yet.
Today I did get to go shooting today for the first time in a couple of weeks. I'm frustrated that I can't seem to work the shooting in even once a week. I have time, but it's dependent upon enough other things (range hours, someone to accompany me, studio schedule) that it just isn't happening. In one sense, that's just as well, it's money I'm not spending if I don't go. But I enjoy it and I'm frustrated because I can't progress in it faster because I'm not even getting to do it once a week regularly.
Today I rented the .22 again, just for the lesser expense of the ammo. I shot at varying distances. Even did a little at 50 feet, and one set of 10 rounds were a few inches high but nicely grouped. The next was all over the place again. My accuracy was going in and out to some degree, at all distances. I started out really well, lost it a little, found it again, and so on. I did much more of my shooting at 25 feet this time, and I did have much greater accuracy than I had before. Right at the end, I was really zoning into it again. That feeling where the distance between the gun and the target pretty much disappears, and just as if it was right in front of you, you know without question that the gun is pointed directly at the center of the target. I was shooting rounds one after the other. Bang. Bang. Bang. Putting them all right into my little "x" in my little square. And right when I was just getting going in that zone, the range was closing. So I had to quit. I was glad to have ended on a good note, but I could have used a couple more hours right in that place, if I could have stayed there. Focused, and not thinking about anything else, not thinking about stresses, problems, things I have to do, things I'm not feeling good about. Just the gun and the target. I really enjoy the shooting that way, and the way it's good for me like that is another reason I wish I could do more of it.
Generally speaking for yesterday and today, I'm low but even, moodwise.