Some Miscellaneous (but Valuable) Experience

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Recording Engineer

A recording engineer must use problem-solving skills, have good interpersonal and effective oral communication skills, be detail-oriented, and react quickly to problems and develop creative solutions within seconds or minutes. Studio time is expensive, and delays are costly. I worked as an intern starting in high school at GEM Recordings, a 24 track recording studio in Columbia, SC. During my time as a music major, I worked as a recording engineer for the University of South Carolina School of Music. My duties included recording concerts, recitals, commercials, and albums, as well as equipment maintenance. Recording engineers must be able to think extremely logically (to determine where, for instance, a line has gotten disconnected to cause a track not to play back) and come up with creative solutions (routing signals in unorthodox ways to bypass a broken connector, for example).

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Radio DJ

Obviously, oral communication skills are a must for this position, which I greatly enjoyed. I worked for a summer in a paid position as the main afternoon DJ for WVEF AM. I also interned during high school at WMFX-FM, the second-largest market in the Columbia, SC area. My duties included taped announcements, monitoring broadcast equipment, on-air (live) announcements, and handling telephone requests. I still have my Class 3 FCC license (a piece of history, now, I think they're no longer required). Being a DJ means communicating clearly and effectively to a large audience, handling multiple tasks simultaneously and, adapting quickly and independently to unexpected situations (such as a record skipping or CD malfunctioning), and paying strict attention to deadlines and details.