Introducing.. Me!

in introducemyself •  7 years ago 

Hi there everyone,

My name is Shannon, I'm 41 and an audio engineer and sound designer from Brisbane, in sunny Queensland, on the east coast of Australia. I signed up to steemit the other day and have finally got around to introducing myselfto everyone. It Sunday night here right now on July 2nd 2017.

Well here's a little about myself, I have been into music and bands since my teens and always loved punk and rock music in my early years. When i was about 13 my mom gave me a nylon string guitar and said "stay out of trouble" after hanging with a few kids from the wrong crowd. SHe showed me three chords and i had to figure the rest out myself. Not long later, a friend showed me power chords and began to understand where all the notes on the guitar were, so i started playing to the misfits and sex pistols as best i could.

My mum wasn't too happy as she was a church singer and told me about flamenco, so i went to music shops trying to find out more about this spanish guitar style called 'Flamenco'. There was no internet back then and we didn't have a computer anyway so i had to learn bits n pieces over many years. After a few years i then heard a guitarist called "Joe Satriani" and his album Surfing with the Alien coming from a friend's neigbour's house and my life for music and guitar suddenly got serious!

I had to find out what that music was and who was creating it. For then next seven years i taught myself guitar as best i could and got better. I had a few crazy punk chaos bands at school and with friends, i could never play other peoples music so i just made up my own weird stuff. When i was 18 i wanted to study sound engineering but my dad said there was no future in music! lol. Many years later i gave music a break for a while, got married and had some kids, i then pursued a path of knowledge to make others happy, i studied many different things from Law and psychology to Politics and mystical studies and meditation.

I had a few issues in life that set me back some, but so does everyone in different ways, i also made my own solo album and got serious in a metal band but these never went to far, so i finally decided i wanted to do the one thing i should have done when i left school. Audio engineering! so i went back and did a degree 20 years after first asking my parents for help in getting into it when i was a kid, i got my Bach degree in engineering and sound design last year and started my own business called AudioNRG.com in September 2016.

Doing this degree was the best thing in my life, it was amazing to see so many different facets of music and sound from a point of science instead of as an art. The crazy thing was, with all the years i did in bands and so on, i never actually had the chance to sit in a recording studio and i was pretty terrified. During the degree i got to have many more opportunities to experience the recording desk but also the art of getting the right sound with the right equipment, doing so many different projects including a full surround sound project of my own, recording a live orchestra, bands and Elvis impressionists, remixing pop tracks and midi design elements, and even a research paper where i worked on infrasonic frequencies (frequencies below 20Hz and considered outside human hearing range) and designed my own experiments which were quite successful.

All in all, i have had a pretty exciting life and have a great support from my wife and kids. Business is tough getting started and i have already done a few films including a documentary Series which has won nominations in a number of recent film festivals in the USA and Australia. The documentary was called "The ripple effect of PTSD" and focuses on the lives of families of veterans who live with the effects of PTSD as well as the healing process including the use of medicinal cannabis. I have worked on a few other short films, have my own YouTube channel of the same name (audionrg) and some interrnet commercials for a friend's music store as well, so i stay busy.

I hope this has been helpful for you to learn more about me as a new member of Steemit and i look forward to meeting more of you all here. If you want to see more of me, you can go to my website or watch some videos from my youtube channel which i may use from time to time for discussion topics. Thanks for reading and see you all real soon!

regards
Shan
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Welcome to this unique platform . Hope you find new friends here and post high quality articles.I'm here from one week and my advice to you is to be patient and at first to leave the money in the background .
Enjoy your time here аnd respect the other authors.

If you have any questions do not worry about turning to me with joy I'll help you with whatever I can.

Hey there, how are you doing?
I would like to welcome you to the Steemit community
I hope you have a great time here and achieve success
I'm new here also and looking forward to making some good friends here
You can check out my page and follow
Also look forward to reading more of your post especially on sound and audio designing, i have an interest in learning it would help me produce my own sound
Anyway welcome again to the Steemit family have a great one.
Cheers

Welcome! Wish you the best on this plattform! Steem on!

Welcome to Steem @audio-nrg I have sent you a tip

HI thank you, at first i though you meant advice and was looking in the replies for it lol, then realized you meant a steem point right? thanks sorry i'll get used to it haha thank you again for your support.

Hi @audio-nrg I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community !! Nice post, i will follow your account, please follow me at @khunfarang

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

Welcome! Hope you enjoy Steemit and share good content with us!

hi yes, im looking forward to learning more and will probably spend time in the music section here haha. thanks for your feed back!

A very nice introduction, it sounds like you have an interesting life. I will follow your steemit progress with interest. Today is day 19 since my first post. Good Luck and happy blogging.

Hi petruska13
thanks for your support, and following, things move pretty fast here i see. i will try to keep my posts interesting haha.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Dope to meet an audio engineer in Aus! I'm in a band in South Africa :) Maybe you'll enjoy our song and video?

Thanks for sharing :D keen to see how life in Aus is !

Hi Alainite,

thats a trippy video lol, very well done and i love your music man, really tight sound and well structured song, it gets right into the theme of the song and kicks along at a good tempo man!
great to meet you too. you will have to tell me more about yourselves. spin me a link to any sites you have and i can share it.

Australia aint to bad to live, the music scene is very indie/folk here but my city has a strong metal underground scene. Melbourne is really the place to be for music and culture though. But i think Brisbane and the gold coast will catch up soon haha.
cheers man stay in touch!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Wow thank you :D and sure thing!

I'm in 2 bands. One folky and one hardcore/metal haha!

http://www.veladraco.com for the folk
http://www.peasant.co.za for the heavy

So great to be in touch man! i hope you enjoy. our EP is on itunes and google play :)

awesome mate i will check it out! if you need to chat about anything music n industry i can try to help out if you need it hey.
cheers.

Epic man, i'd love to somehow tour there in future. have no clue who could help us. I have followed you :) I'm thinking i might try crowdfund it on Steemit. Imagine!

Nice to meet you, Shannon...best of luck here on Steemit...it's a great community where you'll meet many others that share similar interests.

Keep the great content coming!

Hi jack thanks for the welcome!
yeah it looks really cool but i have a bit to learn about it hah, i'll do my best on keeping that content flowing and thanks for the tip.

Hey, Shannon! Welcome to the Steemit Community! I wish you a great time on the platform, hope you'll make many friends and I can't wait to see your content. I have followed your blog, you can check mine as well and if you like my content don't forget to drop a follow. Have a nice day & Steem on!

Welcome to Steemit! I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community :) Nice post :> I left an upvote for you and will follow your account, please follow me at @ciombat if you are interested in crypto, technology and some funny stuff! :D ( and of course, you like cute doge woof woof )

hi mate,
thanks for your support im getting used to how everything works and now learnign to vote as well haha. i will start looking at subjects for discussion and just learning about crypto too so its going to be very exciting.
cheers!

G'Day mate! Hope you do well on the platform!

cheers mate thanks for your support!

hi everyone thanks for the warm welsome so fast , wow, im still learning on voting and replies but promise to do my best to reply to everyone! thanks

welcome brother, nice to meet you

really great , I liked your taste in music , also I had a life like yours , my father even said : If you take a guitar inside this house I will break it and throw it away , most of the things I read in your life story I learned from sites but I still need to learn many things , I wish I could experience what you experienced , I mean being in a big studio and recording and mixing and mastering Live instruments Like pianos and violins and so on .
really thanks for sharing your life story.

cheers, no problem, if you ever have any questions feel free to ask, i will help if i can.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

thank you , My recent problem was a noise in microphone , I searched about it and found out that it's a radio noise that sometimes or better I say most of the times it goes in my microphone and it's really annoying and destroying my records(that noise is not so loud). I don't know if it comes from Wirelesses or phones ? I even turned off my phone and also I choose airplane on my laptop, but still I could hear it , how can fix this ? I'll be thankful if you could tell me.

Ah yep, i know what you mean, basically that's not mobile phones or anything like that, its Its called a 'ground loop' the best way to fix this is if you had a separate power point you can run your mic equipment through. It happens when a guitar or amp is also plugged in to the same power line. the other option is you can get a device that will eliminate the loop, sometimes transformers do this but ground loop isolator with the right plug ends can help. The link is one type but it depends on what plugs you have on your devices. I think a DI box might also help but have to check.
https://www.jaycar.com.au/ground-loop-noise-isolator-stereo-3-5mm/p/AA3086

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

thanks for helping me , I forgot to tell you about this :
I use this sound card , and I plug the usb to the laptop and then I turn 48v on for microphone and it takes the power from laptop , sometimes I change usb and it becomes ok , I saw loop noise isolator but can't my sound card do it itself ?

Ah ok,

  1. only use the phantom power (the 48v) if you are using a condenser mic (99% of the time), don't use phantom on ribbons or dynamic mics, the ribbons can blow and the dynamic mics don't need it.
    a dynamic mic is often used for vocals and it has a little transducer inside a magnet that moves back and forward in the megnetic field and responds to the acoustic pressure from the sound going into the mic. A condenser and ribbon mic works differently. So you have to find out what mic u are using.

  2. the sound device does'nt usually cut out the loop because current runs through all the electronics and they don't have wiring structures for that, some more expensive ones may have though, but essentially its the way that the current is flowing through the connectors and hardware.
    One thing you can do is record your guitar tracks first, then unplug and then record your vocals, this should get rid of some of that problem. There will always be a small amount of buzz which is hard to get rid of especially at home studios. Also, you can mabey reduce the amount of gain on your device and then lift the gain of the track a little after its recorded. hope that helps. But if you have two wall sockets in your house that are running on spearate lines (not always common) plug your guitar and amp in that and run your mic and sound device as usual. one wall socket should be white and the separate one is usually red. you may see these in larger establishments. its to separate the inhouse currents from over drawing current and blowing the main power box.

Oh david!
by the way, you can use a di box and this may get rid of the buzz to, as they rely on XLR cables are balanced cables and they cut out buzzing noises! if your mic or guitar is using TRS or TS cables they are unbalanced and cause buzzing, a DI box allows the TRS cable in one side and the XLR cable connects to your sound device and eliminates the buzz. So it would go...Mic -trs cable to - DI Box - XLR cable to - Sound card - usb - computer.
If your usb is loose and buzzing check your usb cable or the sockets in the pc and sound card.
cheers.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/DI100

This is just amazing ! Really Great !! thank you Shan , this will fix my problem with guitar but Im still not sure about that unfamiliar noise which is not like hum or buzz. but I will test it.
I'm really thankful.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

@audio-nrg sorry shan If I took your time ,but I know about microphones and condenser and dynamic but my problem is not basic , my problem is not even that buzz sound , this is so different , this noise is not like that , it's like sometimes it makes sound like tlik or click or its like someone speak in radio while I am singing , or playing guitar , my sound card is always great and it gives me best sound I mean sometimes there is no noise , so clean , but sometimes this radio noise that I read about it in a site , it's coming to my mic , they said it comes from maybe ADSL Wireless or any radio station which send those noises , your mic will take them.

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Hey...glad to connect with you. My name is Shariff, writer by passion, entrepreneur by profession and human alarm clock, yes I awaken people sleeping in life and hug them. You can follow me @shariff

Hey Shannon! Welcome to Steemit! Following

Welcome and Thank You for being with us!! Following your Blog now

Glad to meet you..
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Welcome to steemit @audio-nrg I read from Venezuela, pass my profile.

Welcome to Steemit! Hope you find this to be a great place to share your ideas and thoughts. Keep Steeming on!

Welcome to this incredible platform, hope everything will work out for you. Being here it’s not easy but not difficult neither only an extra effort will go a long way, engagement is the key good luck I’m @hea Start by Following ,Upvoting &Resteeming people and they will do the same.

Sounds like you've lived a cool life and have overcome a lot. =) Jealous you live in Australia.

Btw, that's my birthday (February 7th), very cool sign.

Welcome to Steemit Shannon.

I hope that you have an amazing journey here.

Enjoy your stay :)

Welcome to steemit! I am new here myself and love the platform of steemit so far. I am going to Follow you to keep up with your progress!
Good Luck fellow Steemian,
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nice introuction. Followed. Follow me back 😘

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