Studio Job in London

PaulBrewer

http://www.studiojob2012.com/

PaulBrewer

Did anyone apply for this?

krd

Hmmmmm.


Enthusiastic individual required to manage a small private recording studio and generally assist a team of established dance music producers.

I don't know what kind of stuff they're doing there. A studio is always very nice and professional and groovy feeling. But you don't need one to make dance music. Fakeblood, always gives his(or her) studio as MeFlat

Unless they're doing lots of live stuff - instruments and vocals.

Must be organised and willing to deal with the day to day running of a recording studio, web/social media savvy, be familiar with Pro-Tools, Logic, Ableton etc. and have a genuine interest in cutting edge dance music of all genres.

I don't know about the whole sound of this thang.

I would have thought all the serious jobs go on some kind of grapevine.

Any idea who it is?

Squidgy Black

Sounds a bit like an assistant/manager kinda job to me as opposed to an engineer or assistant engineer to be honest.

PaulBrewer

Yes I do know who it is. It's totally legit.

PaulBrewer

Krd - dance music can have vocals and instruments can't it ?

TelePaul

The spec seems a little odd - manage the studio and generally assist producers and have a good working knowledge of social media & online? I could handle 2 out of the 3!

DamagedTrax

sounds like a typical small studio managers job to me. in these types of jobs you need to be an allrounder, not just a whizz on PT.

godfrey

Jesus, a guy posts an opportunity and all you guys do is criticise it. Spare me this country / this board.

g

madtheory

Don't tar us all with the same brush... then again, the majority voted FF for years...

PaulBrewer

godfrey wrote: »

Jesus, a guy posts an opportunity and all you guys do is criticise it. Spare me this country / this board.

g

The though had crossed my mind G .... And me givin' for Christmas, like ...

krd

PaulBrewer wrote: »

Krd - dance music can have vocals and instruments can't it ?

Yes I know it can.

Vocals and instruments are more costly to record. And unless you're getting some decent airplay on the radio, you're not going to make any money from it. You're not going to cover costs. Outside of major label releases dance tracks sell only a few hundred to a few thousand - at the very most. They don't even get that much airplay. Unless your production costs are very low, you're not going to make money out of them.

I just took a look at the UK dance chart. A lot of the stuff has been in the chart for close to a year. And it has people like Rihanna, and everyone else is a major label star. As far as radio play goes, it's the same 50 or less, records soaking up nearly all the airplay for the one year.

Even downloading music has gone way beyond using file sharing. Google any track in the charts and you can download it for free from a website.

How does a dance music studio make money

DamagedTrax

depends on who it is. you look at a production team like "swedish house mafia". they are pulling in decent money in remixes and are **** hot property after producing kylie's last album.

krd

PaulBrewer wrote: »

Yes I do know who it is. It's totally legit.

I trust yah. They're hiding the identity well. I even tried to look it up by the hostname, and they've hidden that too. They probably don't want a deluge of CVs from everyone who's ever done a music production course.

I'm just a little surprised. I just imagine, that since it is really difficult to even get a start in professional music production, the pool of people with professional experience is very very small. And with pools that small, jobs don't get advertised. That it's word of mouth.

There are a lot of scams.

http://uk.music-jobs.com/current/music-business-apprenticeships-job-24963106

A UK jobs in music website - only £15 quid a month to subscribe.

Let's look at a job on the site.

Music Business Apprenticeships

About The Job

Ever wanted to work in the Music Business?

AN EXCITING new opportunity awaits local music business enthusiasts who have a passion to work in the music industry. The company, in conjunction with Gateshead’s Academy of Music & Sound and the National Skills Academy, are launching their Apprentice programme for 2012 and are looking for suitable candidates to join the ranks of its staff in the search for new and vibrant future musical talent.

“We are looking for anyone with a genuine burning desire to forge a career in the modern music industry.” Says Tim Powell-Morris, Managing Director, “The music industry has changed significantly in recent years thanks to new technologies that have made it easy to record and distribute music all around the world; the new objectives of our business are focused on marketing strategies that get our music to it’s audience.”

To achieve this the company has developed an apprenticeship programme that will prepare the participants in taking advantage of modern social media methods of marketing to build a nationwide audience. Not only will the apprentices get hands on experience of working in the music industry, but they will also receive in depth training delivered by the Academy of Music & Sound that will arm them with the vital knowledge needed to build an entrepreneurial career in the music business.


Does it really look like a job, or an apprenticeship. It's looks more like a scam to get young people to sign up to a course.

PaulBrewer

These guys , whilst an internationally successful 'dance' act aren't really in the loop - so they aren't part of the studio scene.

It would be a fabulous opportunity for anyone who's inclined to chase it.

Seziertisch

PaulBrewer wrote: »

These guys , whilst an internationally successful 'dance' act aren't really in the loop - so they aren't part of the studio scene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_and_Allen

PaulBrewer

Seziertisch wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_and_Allen

No ,

You're getting -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moate

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London

mixed up ...

Seziertisch

PaulBrewer wrote: »

No ,

You're getting -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moate

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London

mixed up ...

It's just that where you're from people refer to Moate as "The Big Smoke", so I presumed that you had typed London by mistake.

splitrmx

London, currently the second most expensive city in the EU according to Mercer's 2011 cost of living index. Hopefully this would pay enough to rent a ****ty bedsit somewhere.

TelePaul

godfrey wrote: »

Jesus, a guy posts an opportunity and all you guys do is criticise it. Spare me this country / this board.

g

It's just a weird job spec is all.

krd

PaulBrewer wrote: »

These guys , whilst an internationally successful 'dance' act aren't really in the loop - so they aren't part of the studio scene.

I genuinely wish them the best of luck.

I wonder is this someone I might know - someone who isn't a stranger to these pastures. If it's is I wish them the best of luck.

It would be a fabulous opportunity for anyone who's inclined to chase it.

I'm a complete amateur. I'm not even a spectacularly good amateur either. If I had more background it does look like a fab opportunity. It would definitely kick the sh1te out of processing insurance forms for a living.*

*I don't process insurance forms for a living.

krd

TelePaul wrote: »

It's just a weird job spec is all.

It's rock and roll. It's meant to be weird. If you don't like weird, become an accountant.

TelePaul

krd wrote: »

It's rock and roll. It's meant to be weird. If you don't like weird, become an accountant.

LOL! This is what my band-mate says when he's forgotten how to tune to Open E

krd

TelePaul wrote: »

LOL! This is what my band-mate says when he's forgotten how to tune to Open E

There's a great story about a Gallagher brothers row, over a piece of backwards guitar. "That guitar bit sounds weird", "I know it sounds weird, it a piece of backward guitar", "I know it's a piece of backward guitar, but it's not meant to sound weird to me".....Major barney pursues.

PaulBrewer

That job was for Basement Jaxx .

I've been involved in their new Munro designed studio build in London and its going to be a great gig for a lucky guy called Duncan who got it by applying to that advert.

flyswatter

PaulBrewer wrote: »

That job was for Basement Jaxx .

I've been involved in their new Munro designed studio build in London and its going to be a great gig for a lucky guy called Duncan who got it by applying to that advert.

Wow. Have always loved their music.

PaulBrewer

flyswatter wrote: »

Wow. Have always loved their music.

Lovely Gents too. There are a few pics of the new room on my personal Facebook page.

krd

PaulBrewer wrote: »

Lovely Gents too. There are a few pics of the new room on my personal Facebook page.

Where's the gents?.........In the basem.....

I hope they do well with it.

AS dance music producers go, they're in a different league

What's their plan? Who are they aiming the thing at? Or is it really for themselves?

PaulBrewer

They've been in a tatty place in Brixton for years so it was time for a move.

The plan is a new album.

krd

PaulBrewer wrote: »

The plan is a new album.

I thought that might be the case. There's not a huge number of dance acts who could justify hiring a studio to work on a release. BJ could probably justify the entire cost of the studio for a few festival appearances - even if everyone downloaded the album for free.

Have they rigged the studio up for their production or you didn't see any of that?

I assume they're not going to recording the album on their laptops.

wonski

After watching/listening to that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4hFwJm41h4

Seems like good croud to work with. Good luck to all of them, nice to know that recession does not kill the music.

flyswatter

Paul, is this Duncan guy who got it Irish out of interest?

PaulBrewer

They run Logic .

I've suppiled them with an SSL AWS and 24 chans of IZ Ada converters.

They already had Dynaudio M2s that have been rebuilt.

They just did a remix of that Goyte song ...


Lots of keyboards and vinyl after that.

PaulBrewer

krd

PaulBrewer wrote: »

Lots of keyboards and vinyl after that.

I think that's really where the edge is.

That's stuff is harder to use than a DAW, but the results are kind of better. The results are better.

Do you know what that strange looking box in the front of the photo is?

What's that mic doing?

PaulBrewer

It's just a rolling rack with some compressors in.

Chris Walls from Munro took the photo while they were measuring the rooms performance - hence the mic.

krd

PaulBrewer wrote: »

It's just a rolling rack with some compressors in.

Ah-haw. Now you say it, I can see it.

I was thinking it could be some weird, obscure, bass synth/sequencer type thing.


When they're working...Do they have to re-patch things continuously? Or do they just set up their gear - and once the Death Star is ready - hit the groove button.

PaulBrewer

Everything is on tt/bantam patch bays .

krd

I like this.

From Tileyard



A Roland Fantom X7............And those guys are actually using the sampler.

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More gear porn...Please