Hello RecordingReview! I recently joined (by luck, just in time to get KHR on the last day). Have only scratched the surface of those books and this forum, but am already amazed by the wide range of skills and the overall willingness to help that I've found here.
While I have a day job in Atlanta that's not music related, I am also an amateur musician/engineer/producer. I was in a regionally successful band back in the 80s, and about 3 years ago got back into music through the annual
RPM Challenge to record an album in February.
With three albums under my belt, I've gotten progressively better in terms of songwriting, performance, and mixing/mastering but lately seem to have hit a brick wall on the last component. A forum like this is a godsend to learn from others and take my production skills to the next level.
If you're interested, I'm doing the powerpop thang -- short, sweet, and hopefully catchy. You can
check it out here.