“Call Me Queen Button Pusher”

This was not my first time in a recording studio, but it was my first time actually working in a recording studio. Read: doing more than making cat sounds at a microphone.

I’m not a musician. I’m not a sound engineer. I’m nothing more than that crazy chick who jumps off stages—badly, mind you—and then writes about it.

Well I decided I wanted to learn. Be more than a fan. Be a little bit knowledgeable about the industry. So I’m taking a music recording class. I’m fairly certain I have no future as a sound engineer (I’ll always be a writer at heart), but I’m learning and it’s fun. Something to do.

It’s a way to nerd out and live out my fantasies of working in the music industry. Everyone thinks I do anyway, so might as well pretend like I have a clue what I’m doing.

The musicians in the class (read: the rest of them) are supplying their skills to a song we’re recording. Me being musically challenged me got to push the buttons in the studio.

Call me Queen Button Pusher!

Mainly because that’s all I’m good for here…

I was super proud of myself for knowing how to plug in the instruments to the console so it would actually record. And hey, pushing buttons is important. Someone has to do it.

Here’s the finished song. Not my style, but again, I was not one of the musicians. Still proud of it. I helped do a thing!

I think the next thing on my agenda is learning to play guitar…

Musical credit to: Tre Clayton, Ben Hicks, Derek Doszkocs, Jack Sterbenc, Ty (??? I don’t know her last name)

We each mixed our own finished version of it, so this version in particular was mixed by myself and Jack.