Where to begin?

It’s been a whie since i started this blog. A lot has happened in my life lately. Had some health problems and some more health problems and I got married to my sound engineer guy 🙂 So now I’m stuck with all kinds of cables, mixers and speakers, so I might as well start learning.

I’ve been studying om my own and read alot lately. A big help and inspiration for me is the Sound Girls community of women in audio engineering. I’ve met women online with the same interest as me, which is a huge source of inspiration.
Biggest question for me has been and is still where to start. There are so many areas that you could delve into, but everything is still connected to everything. I’ve gotten myself two very good books about how to do live sound and I am constantly reading about basic things to get the bigger picture first.

I’ve been with J at a few PA-gigs and he has also shown me how to record in the studio and installed cubase on my computer. It’s all exciting and quite overwhelming! I want to learn everything but don’t really know how to start so it seems like I’ve started learning a bit of everything at once. I’m not complaining, I think it’s fun. I’m just waiting and wondering when something is going to make a little more sense to me.

It is important to combine theoretical studies with practical exercices for me. I can read and read, but I remember better if I get to try something out. Something as simple as setting the gain gives me a boost of confidence if I can manage it. I did do that at a gig we were playing with our folk duo with J. I had never seen the mixer before (an analog Soundcraft) but I found the basic buttons I needed and nothing blew up or broke down 😉 So I think there is hope for me.

I’m going to try to write on this blog for my own motivation and learning. Not sure about what, but only time will tell. Hopefully I will be writing about my own progress and not the opposite. And I’m going to try to remember to take some photos as well.

Until next time!