skills audit revised

Electronic Music Production

simon A

02/02/14

Skills audit

Part 1: current skills applicable

Below is a list of current relevant skills that I have and can in future apply to my relevant sector, Music production and audio mastering.

• Technical familiarity with studio hardware; mixing desks, audio interfaces microphone pre-amps etc.
• Some technical experience and understanding of microphone application and microphone mixing and acoustics.
• Lots of experience and moderate expertise in using Reason, Ableton, Logic and to a lesser extent Protools DAWs.
• Cable coiling. Lots and lots of experience with that.
• Audio engineering patch bays.
• Moderate to advanced understanding of music theory and acoustics.
• Some minor experience in planning and management.

Part 2 whats useful for future career application?

• Technical familiarity with studio hardware; mixing desks, audio interfaces microphone pre-amps etc.
• Some technical experience and understanding of microphone application and microphone mixing and acoustics.
• Lots of experience and moderate expertise in using Reason, Ableton, DAWs.
• Cable coiling. Lots and lots of experience with that.
• Audio engineering patch bays.
• Moderate to advanced understanding of music theory and acoustics.
• Some minor experience in planning and management.

Part 3 ability rating by skill level and relevance:

Skill: picked from Applicable skills.	Rating: out of 10. 10 being most skilled.	Relevance: out of 10. 10 being most important, 0 least.
Studio hardware	8	10
Recording and Acoustics	8	9
DAW's/ sequencing/ post production	10	10
Cable coiling	10	10
Patching hardware	8	9
Theory	7	8
Planning and management	6	10

Above, if you compare this to the previous skills audit some skills have improved but so have the relevance of those skills. So I am still chasing them and playing 'catch-up'.

The main skills that have changed are due to very recent decisions and changes to my learning curve.

This may be attributed to my change in personal method in production and more exposure to working in a studio environment where I have had to problem solve with many hardware/software interfacing.

My planning and management skills need to improve the most as I will be doing more independent organising within the music industry, ie; Planning a label, part time gigging and marketing myself.