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Issue #104 – Student Successes
by L. Swift and Jeff McQ
Tim Schumann at Track Star Studios
Working with Josquin, not only has Tim improved his skills, but he says he’s learned a lot about the business side, as well. “Clients come first,” he says. “You know, like I think that there’s a lot to say for going above and beyond what a client asks for, but at the same time, not underselling yourself…We are more expensive than the other studios in town, maybe, or some of the smaller studios. But at the end, we’re giving you a professional sound that’s going to sound better than everyone else, so we don’t undersell ourselves.”
Tim’s hard work as an apprentice paid off. Today, he’s got a job at Track Star as one of the engineers—and, of course, keys to the studio. “We’ve got a steady stream of clients in the area,” he says. “And Josquin does a really good job of finding people. Like, he’s working with people who are in town from Germany right now, who are basically over here to record with him and then they’re going back… I do some recruiting as well. I get to make a little more money when I find clients and bring them in.”
Now in the process of building his career, Tim says getting in the studio as a Recording Connection apprentice was the best decision he could have made. “I’ve never been good at school,” he says, “I don’t know if it’s just because of too much A.D.D. or what, but sitting in a classroom and trying to learn never really works for me. It’s always something where hands-on and doing it on my own pace really…I can excel doing it that way. So that aspect of the program really drew me in. And another thing was the actual mentor style approach, foot-in-the-door kind of approach…It was really nice to have this thing where I could get educated and have a foot in the door toward the working career all at the same time.”
Of course, having a go-getter mentality is also a huge part of Tim’s success so far. “I’ll take what I can get out of this program,” he says, “take what I can get out of Track Star, and do everything I can to get success right now.”
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