1st Lesson with Annex - Posted on 2015-09-16 by Kenna Hansen

First day at Annex and wow I love my mentor, Joe Haze! He has a love for making every project he works on unique! We spent an hour or so really analyzing an acoustic song on a wavelength level and it was fascinating! I didn't know you could manipulate sound in such a microscopic way!! I got really pumped to eventually be able to call myself an audio engineer and have the knowledge to do everything he can do and understand music on a scientific level... but he's a genius, I know it won't happen for years, and it would be super pretentious of myself to assume it would be any other way! ;)

I really liked that he let me ask so many questions because that's really how I learn most effectively.  What I liked best about the first meeting is when he told me about a project he was working on for a company, customizing a midi drum kit.  For over an hour we went over different drum sounds that he had recorded in his house, ran them from Protools, through a bunch of different equipment, some from the 50s! Then back through the computer and manipulated the sound to make it less generic sounding.  After we went over an acoustic mix and some basic engineering concepts, he showed me a few samples of his own, some remixes, and I was even more excited about the prospects of what he could teach me.

We also talked about music in film.  He does on-set audio and post-production audio for film and my husband is a director, one of my ultimate goals with audio production is to be able to do all of the audio for his films.  One of the other really cool things about our meeting is that my mentor is very visual and kept relating concepts of what he was teaching to thing he knows are a part of my life either of personal training, piano, or film to what he was teaching about, and I really felt like the teaching style was catered to me personally! 

All in all, I am SO happy I went with Recording Connection! I couldn't have made a better choice to become a skilled Audio  Engineer, I would not be in a place that offers such networking and skilled, one-on-one teaching, and I can't wait for what lies ahead!!!