Audio Technology

Carving Your Own Course

My passion for recording started with dubbing mix tapes for my high school friends. I appropriated my father’s hi-fi gear which had a cassette deck with adjustable recording volumes. This allowed me to master the compilation cassettes, and my mix tapes would circulate around the school. I learnt valuable lessons; how to record to tape, and that people like things loud.

In high school I had a passion for music, but didn’t know specifically where it lay yet. Guitar lessons revealed I wasn’t very good. Instead, I roadied for my friends’ bands. After

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