Apart from gaming, music is the other drain, keyboards synths and every DAW you can buy

The good thing with the music is that its more than a hobby and actually pays for the games :cool: so I just gotta keep with it!

Max is back. Yeah, bring it on baby!

Hey cool. What kind of music do you create?

I've been learning about film and editing lately and having backing music is certainly a boon but it's expensive so if you can create it yourself that's awesome.

It'd be nice if I could get more competitive and make some money out of photography but I can be doing without the stress. Most I made out of it is some free grub from local restaurants in exchange for my services (such as they are).

Well, I do post-production, so although I create music as a hobby, what pays the rent can be anything and everything. For the past coupla months, I've been putting together some great compilations of Latin music, but I also edit and master classical music. I also have several singer/songwriter clients as well as producing recordings of stage shows for Hackney Empire Music Trust among others. I'm not into rap or hip-hop or trance, so don't put myself out for that...

Plus, I have worked on major Hollywood movies, SFX, music etc. (bits of Harry Potter, but I did a lot on Reign of Fire with Patrick Bale and Matthew MacConaughey, that was a great blast, I even stood in for Matthew, well his voice anyway!)

So, I don't find as much time for games as I'd like, but they're a major part of my leisure time, such as it is....

Free grub sounds like a great way to maximise your hobby...

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Free grub sounds like a great way to maximise your hobby...

Yeah, it's amazing the doors a large professional looking camera can open for you!

What you do for a living sounds really cool. I haven't seen Reign of Fire but I love my Harry Potter films and especially the musical score. I've even got some of the music (well, Hagrid's theme) on a classical compilation (classic fm stuff).

With my neighbour's help, I put together some music to my title credits to my (first) doc the other month (for the first time). My neighbour is an ace on the drums and has an amazing talent at producing sound from tapping just about anything. In exchange for some rice from the local Chinese we did some filming together of him tapping away on his kitchen work surfaces, fridge etc and then I edited it together using a lessoning of his disapproval (tuts and grunts) as to when it sounded reasonably ok to him. If you'd like to sample it and let me know what you think I'd be grateful for the views (my link skips to the title credits as the docu itself is very rough and probably a bit boring for those not interested in adult education).

yhm

Cheers!