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I have never quit making music… I found my passion early on and learnt that as long as you love the process you won’t ever look back. It’s been over 65 years and I’m still as fired up about the process as I was on the first day fumbling around. Ups and downs mentally and financially, success and no success never diminished the excitement I feel when making music.
It's really great to hear your story, it help shine some light now how the industry really works for people out there. I haven't had my dream job yet, but I have work and been in some great situations over the years. Got my AS in sound engineering, moved back to NYC around 2016, studio intern 2017, landed a full-time job the same year at a college, and helped rebuild their media department. What you said around 41:25 hit me cause I work in AV now, and it's not for me, but that rent got to get paid lol. Honestly, I feel like building something myself and see what happens.
Going thru a rough patch financially rn but once things are turned back around I’m absolutely planning on checking out mixing breakthroughs. Been listening to sonic scoop for at least 4 years now. Great show. 🤘
@SonicScoop my friend your a legend... You can chill for the rest of your life - or until your ready for that last round which will be AI in the other corner... Thankyou brother.
Inspiring as always man, thank you so much. You’ve inspired and helped me so much in both life and music. Your presence is refreshing and calming and human.
I'm so glad you made this video. I felt the same way about Berklee College of Music. I graduated in 2001. Toured and played with major label bands before going back to school in my 30's. It was great for harmony, and networking. But so many kids were there cause their parents could afford it. It's so backwards.
Thank you for posting this! I did an open house at SAE right after high school in LA and opted to get a basic bitch job and buy the a lot of the gear and intern. This road took way longer and audio is only a passion/side income currently but I still love it.
From what I hear the only difference between you and a genius is... a genius would have known he would quit before he had to like he would have had a vision of so... Anyway now I understand from where comes your efficiency at explaining technical things in a way we can keep on listening like if it was the last Star Wars movie! Your commitment to sound and music production is your genius anywhere the buziness will bring you to!! Thanks for your work Justin!!
Thanks for telling your story Justin. I've learned more about audio production from you than anyone else, by far. And by the way, I actually did go to music school so that should tell you something!
I’ve been recording into a daw and doing some form of creative audio production since late 99. Opened up a very bottom of the barrel home studio for clients in 2009. Got divorced early in 2013. Got into trucking. Still work on some select clients materials as a hobby / stream revenue sharing. I usually go for 20 percent of revenue ( which is peanuts ). lol. I’ve been obsessed with getting good ITB over that time since. Still kept a home studio for weekends. Upgraded things as much as I could. Now I want to be more focussed on my own music like before ever having clients. With side mixing and “ mastering “ work. Full circle. 😆🤦♂️🤦♂️
Brother I hear ya.. I nearly shed a tear and I do mean that... I had that compliance person... 3 times he tried to remove me by the heads of dpt decree and they turned him down and made him oppologise and I was embarrassed.. I was 32 I think? I learned more about life and what my life means for FREE..
Life doesn't always have to be about "getting better". I've been on the quit job path some years ago and my social life suffered hard. Because we work a ton of time. So I started choosing jobs for the people that are in there. Guess what, my life is better. You can still improve your skills outside of your work hours. I mean, if you don't work too much. So to do this you also have to leave early and rest. A job is just there to pay the bills. If you want to be the best your emotional stability is going to be shit. And to be honest who cares if in the long run you can't tell between good state of being. Besides, you might get better at your skills faster when you are relaxed than when you are tracking shit up.
At the risk of sounding superficial, one doesn't get a grammy or gold/platinum plaques for fixing toilets... the ego aspect is why anyone is generally on the art path. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose
Relatively articulate is an understatement. To such an extent - you're a little bit wasted in the audio space. You get to a very deep point around 40 minutes but didn't elaborate (rare for yourself) if the things that are best about you are more of an annoyance/hindrance to others - that could far more be the case that it's the other people that are making you feel that way that are the problem. Even someone with as much autonomy as Elon Musk is probably going to find he's coming up against the brick wall. Maybe he has the tools to counter it, if anyone does, it's him - but my god what a wall that is. Going back to my first point - i think you subtly strike upon something that concerns me - the west has done creativity incredibly well post ww2 - but it's taken a nosedive last 2 decades and I think the fairly recent institutionalization of the arts is the root of it. It's lost that dynamic outsider energy (I think rap maintained it longest - probably why it's outlasted rock, modern rock is all very polite institute of music educated and networked) Bowie and Zappa saw this coming decades ago, they were attracted to music because it was not respectable, it was genuinely subversive and outsiderish. The modern music institutes prioritize networking at the expense of the creative mavericks. So we end up with a load of very polite 'artists' with relatively little ability. A shake-up artist like Elon Musk could shift this somewhat - he has the political connections and a powerful outlet to express himself with - it's been fascinating to me to see him and joe rogan promoting dostoevsky to a mass audience - i can't recall traditional media doing things like that, at such a scale. The next Bach or Prokofiev would probably be far better off on twitter than in the music institute system. I'm surprised you're not more active on there yourself given your communication skills - If I was Musk i would be looking for people such as yourself who can identify flaws in systems and I'd imagine prioritizes fixing them over the political considerations (?) - that's the sort of person these systems are designed to exclude. Until a shake-up artist comes along.
I am sorry but you seem very delusional about the current "modern rock" scene beeing less creative. That is just not true, maybe in the mainstream radio sense yes, but globally there's really cool stuff to explore, maybe start more local and not look at streaming numbers of the bands but more if their active and playing live in their cities. My other thing to say is, it's very weird to hear someone compare Elon Musk or Joe Rogan to Bach or "Prokofiev". Elon Musk is just an engineer, that in fact is a racist/sexist/liar no one should listen to, Joe Rogan is controversial as well, but I don't want to look up why that is. Please do some research, no one should thrive to be like them. I think the problem seems to be that you fell into the wrong social- and media-bubble and need to get outside more, see the people and the musicians and artists that actually do very cool things. (sry for the bad english, i'm european)
@@safewaytoexplore I didn't compare musk or rogan to bach and prokofiev, but now thinking about it (thanks to your daft comment) those guys are doing with communications what bach/prokofiev did with music. And given Collettis communication skills and intellect/knowlege was just encouraging him to go beyond the more narrow minded audio space. Lets not be a couple of losers arguing with strangers on the internet. We're not going to see things the same way, to any degree.
Great video! About lowering standards so that everyone can pass the tests, is just socialism! In communism, everyone had a job, no matter how bad they were at it. But that's wrong!
What's the best job you ever quit?
PS: Sorry for occasional buzzing on this stream. Had my phone touching my mic cable so there was occasional GSM audio interference. Learn from my mistake! 🙂
Courses:
►🎚Mixing Breakthroughs: mixingbreakthroughs.com
►🎛Compression Breakthroughs: compressionbreakthroughs.com
►🎧 EQ Breakthroughs: EQBreakthroughs.com
►🔊Mastering Demystified: MasteringDemystified.com
So that’s what the buzz around SonicScoop is all about!
I have never quit making music… I found my passion early on and learnt that as long as you love the process you won’t ever look back. It’s been over 65 years and I’m still as fired up about the process as I was on the first day fumbling around. Ups and downs mentally and financially, success and no success never diminished the excitement I feel when making music.
Incredible insight. Great topic to cover.
This is one of your best episodes yet. Thank you
Excellent session, thanks for sharing your life journey.
It's really great to hear your story, it help shine some light now how the industry really works for people out there. I haven't had my dream job yet, but I have work and been in some great situations over the years. Got my AS in sound engineering, moved back to NYC around 2016, studio intern 2017, landed a full-time job the same year at a college, and helped rebuild their media department. What you said around 41:25 hit me cause I work in AV now, and it's not for me, but that rent got to get paid lol. Honestly, I feel like building something myself and see what happens.
Going thru a rough patch financially rn but once things are turned back around I’m absolutely planning on checking out mixing breakthroughs. Been listening to sonic scoop for at least 4 years now. Great show. 🤘
So glad to have you listening!
I agree with you brother, you're a bright star on YT and you've really helped me... keep quitting dude. 😁🙋♂️🤘🏻👊🏽✌🏿
Thanks for the kind words, and for tuning in!
@SonicScoop my friend your a legend... You can chill for the rest of your life - or until your ready for that last round which will be AI in the other corner...
Thankyou brother.
Inspiring as always man, thank you so much. You’ve inspired and helped me so much in both life and music. Your presence is refreshing and calming and human.
So awesome to hear! So glad to be helpful. Thanks for tuning in.
I'm so glad you made this video. I felt the same way about Berklee College of Music. I graduated in 2001. Toured and played with major label bands before going back to school in my 30's. It was great for harmony, and networking. But so many kids were there cause their parents could afford it. It's so backwards.
This is looking to be a good one. Settling down to listen now 🔥
Glad to have you tuning in Benj :-)
you weren't wrong, sat through the entire 54 mins of the video. issa banger with Justin spitting gems.
Thank you for posting this! I did an open house at SAE right after high school in LA and opted to get a basic bitch job and buy the a lot of the gear and intern. This road took way longer and audio is only a passion/side income currently but I still love it.
Justin you bridge the gap between technical education and the human side of it. This was a refreshing seminar!
Thank you sir!
From what I hear the only difference between you and a genius is... a genius would have known he would quit before he had to like he would have had a vision of so... Anyway now I understand from where comes your efficiency at explaining technical things in a way we can keep on listening like if it was the last Star Wars movie! Your commitment to sound and music production is your genius anywhere the buziness will bring you to!! Thanks for your work Justin!!
Great video! thanks for sharing! :)
Thanks for telling your story Justin. I've learned more about audio production from you than anyone else, by far. And by the way, I actually did go to music school so that should tell you something!
Awesome to hear! Thanks for tuning in.
Great talk Justin!
i think we can call this a performance! Inspirig stories, thanks!
I’ve been recording into a daw and doing some form of creative audio production since late 99. Opened up a very bottom of the barrel home studio for clients in 2009. Got divorced early in 2013. Got into trucking. Still work on some select clients materials as a hobby / stream revenue sharing. I usually go for 20 percent of revenue ( which is peanuts ). lol. I’ve been obsessed with getting good ITB over that time since. Still kept a home studio for weekends. Upgraded things as much as I could. Now I want to be more focussed on my own music like before ever having clients. With side mixing and “ mastering “ work. Full circle. 😆🤦♂️🤦♂️
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Brother I hear ya.. I nearly shed a tear and I do mean that... I had that compliance person... 3 times he tried to remove me by the heads of dpt decree and they turned him down and made him oppologise and I was embarrassed.. I was 32 I think? I learned more about life and what my life means for FREE..
Life doesn't always have to be about "getting better". I've been on the quit job path some years ago and my social life suffered hard. Because we work a ton of time. So I started choosing jobs for the people that are in there. Guess what, my life is better. You can still improve your skills outside of your work hours. I mean, if you don't work too much. So to do this you also have to leave early and rest. A job is just there to pay the bills. If you want to be the best your emotional stability is going to be shit. And to be honest who cares if in the long run you can't tell between good state of being. Besides, you might get better at your skills faster when you are relaxed than when you are tracking shit up.
In the end, work is still just one thing, work
At the risk of sounding superficial, one doesn't get a grammy or gold/platinum plaques for fixing toilets... the ego aspect is why anyone is generally on the art path. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose
I just wanna quit my current job 😂
I appreciate you telling your story but there are too many ads on this video. I can hardly get into what you’re saying with so many interruptions
Thanks for letting me know. Sometimes TH-cam automatically adds WAY too many ads. I went in and removed more than half of them.
Digi002 SQUAD!
UNITE!
Relatively articulate is an understatement. To such an extent - you're a little bit wasted in the audio space.
You get to a very deep point around 40 minutes but didn't elaborate (rare for yourself) if the things that are best about you are more of an annoyance/hindrance to others - that could far more be the case that it's the other people that are making you feel that way that are the problem. Even someone with as much autonomy as Elon Musk is probably going to find he's coming up against the brick wall. Maybe he has the tools to counter it, if anyone does, it's him - but my god what a wall that is.
Going back to my first point - i think you subtly strike upon something that concerns me - the west has done creativity incredibly well post ww2 - but it's taken a nosedive last 2 decades and I think the fairly recent institutionalization of the arts is the root of it. It's lost that dynamic outsider energy (I think rap maintained it longest - probably why it's outlasted rock, modern rock is all very polite institute of music educated and networked) Bowie and Zappa saw this coming decades ago, they were attracted to music because it was not respectable, it was genuinely subversive and outsiderish. The modern music institutes prioritize networking at the expense of the creative mavericks. So we end up with a load of very polite 'artists' with relatively little ability.
A shake-up artist like Elon Musk could shift this somewhat - he has the political connections and a powerful outlet to express himself with - it's been fascinating to me to see him and joe rogan promoting dostoevsky to a mass audience - i can't recall traditional media doing things like that, at such a scale. The next Bach or Prokofiev would probably be far better off on twitter than in the music institute system. I'm surprised you're not more active on there yourself given your communication skills - If I was Musk i would be looking for people such as yourself who can identify flaws in systems and I'd imagine prioritizes fixing them over the political considerations (?) - that's the sort of person these systems are designed to exclude. Until a shake-up artist comes along.
obligatory apology for the lack of brevity ;)
I am sorry but you seem very delusional about the current "modern rock" scene beeing less creative. That is just not true, maybe in the mainstream radio sense yes, but globally there's really cool stuff to explore, maybe start more local and not look at streaming numbers of the bands but more if their active and playing live in their cities.
My other thing to say is, it's very weird to hear someone compare Elon Musk or Joe Rogan to Bach or "Prokofiev". Elon Musk is just an engineer, that in fact is a racist/sexist/liar no one should listen to, Joe Rogan is controversial as well, but I don't want to look up why that is. Please do some research, no one should thrive to be like them.
I think the problem seems to be that you fell into the wrong social- and media-bubble and need to get outside more, see the people and the musicians and artists that actually do very cool things. (sry for the bad english, i'm european)
@@safewaytoexplore I didn't compare musk or rogan to bach and prokofiev, but now thinking about it (thanks to your daft comment) those guys are doing with communications what bach/prokofiev did with music. And given Collettis communication skills and intellect/knowlege was just encouraging him to go beyond the more narrow minded audio space. Lets not be a couple of losers arguing with strangers on the internet. We're not going to see things the same way, to any degree.
I enjoy your more long form content so I’m glad you quit
Great video!
About lowering standards so that everyone can pass the tests, is just socialism!
In communism, everyone had a job, no matter how bad they were at it.
But that's wrong!
“We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us” 😅
Your journey is impressive. Thank you for sharing.