What age have we here?

[Beeble]

Just for interest, at what age did you started your music and mixing career? And how old are you now?
I´m 53 and was 16 as I started with drums. Some years paused and back in buisiness since 2010.
I started mixing with cubase7 2 Years ago.

would be nice if you are outing yourself.

[HerbFelho]

Hey Beeble, nice idea!
I´m 44, started at about 16 playing bass, then guitar and singing a bit.
Since then constantly playing in bands until i started to make a living out of this about 10 years ago.
5 years ago I started to learn the ropes in recording, mixing, mastering. All of it self-taught.
So, mainly i see myself as freelance musician with a bit of studio work as (slowly growing) side business.

[FixInTheMix]

Hi everyone !
I´m (almost) 22, I started learning guitar about 8 years ago, although I love making music I consider it a hobby,no mixing career yet, just a few proyects related to my college career (which is kind of a mixture between audio engineering school and film school) and a brief job at a theather.
It would be interesting to also know where do you all come from, in my case I´m from Argentina.
EDIT: forgot to mention that I started learning about audio, mixing and recording about 4 years ago, when I started going to college.

[OctopusOnFire]

Well I'm 35, from Spain, and started playing guitar at 12, conservatory and all... left after 4 years and started playing in some bands, then playing professionally (as in playing shitty commercial music) in small venues, already in my 20s. I got quite burnt out of it, and kinda left the music aside for a while.

3 years ago I discovered the whole production/engineering side of it, and totally loved it. A more general approach, instead of the perspective of a musician, felt way more natural for me. Started on Pro Tools and later switched to Reaper, not looking back. Bought more plugins than what I could even use. I would have gone for a career on it if I had caught it sooner, but past 30 it gets really hard to start over on something you really had no experience before. I'm happy to have it as a hobby and enjoy it without having to meet deadlines in order to get paid.

[Jorgeelalto]

My story is more or less similar to OctopusOnFire, I played the keyboards and the piano in pop bands in a music school and then, when I discovered all the stuff about electronic music production (you don't need a band to make a full track! Yay) I didn't think much about it and switched inmediately. Now the technical aspect of it (the mixing and of course the synthesis stuff) is what I love the most. In that regard, electronic music is one of the best groups of genres to practice that since there are genres that musically are literally simpler than a chord progression, but then the good part is all the sound design, automations and mixing.

I'm 21 by the way I've never played or "produced" professionally although I'm slowly building my small studio, collaborating with other artists doing small jobs, working on a webpage and so on and I hope I can some day work on something, not full time but complementing my computer science career.

Edit: Edited age, it's been too much time since I wrote this.

[fogle622]

I'm 67. I've been playing with recording and mixing since 2007.

I am still very much a beginner at both recording and mixing. I had a Teac-3340S 4 track tape deck in the seventies and eighties but did not take time to learn to use it. No one around me was interested and I am not a good singer or musician and I had no outboard equipment so I never created much material.

My wife gave me a Zoom MRS-8 multi-track recorder in 2007. The device includes built-in microphone, insert signal chains, send-return effects and drum and bass machines. I continue to this date to use the device as my main recording equipment even though it can only record at 44.1Khz sample rate and 16 bit depth.

I prefer to use a mouse driven software DAW and automation to mix. I'm in the beginning stages of learning how to edit, mix and use effects.

It is an exciting journey. I'm a bit overwhelmed by what is available to hobbyists but loving the learning experience.

[Richard Watashi]

Hi, i'm 26.

I've gotten an accoustic guitar when i was 15, and started messing with FL Studio Like a little more than two years back but, i haven't been producing last year at all so, i am basically producing for like 1 - 1.5 year

[Dr Dendrite]

40. Started with "tinkering" on toy electronics as a child, trying to get as many weird sounds from the devices as I could. I moved on to trumpet in my early teens and by my late teens I was experimenting with sampling which was in its early days as we now it. I moved on to stringed instruments in my early 20's followed shortly by virtual instruments. Then I found modular... yeah...that was late 30's...still there. Been mixing with REAPER for 10? years

[Richard Watashi]

Been mixing with REAPER for 10? years

cool (you have really great mixes)

[Dr Dendrite]

Been mixing with REAPER for 10? years

cool (you have really great mixes)

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