HIPCHIP
Wannabe

Joined: Mar 19, 2008
Posts: 6
Location: Woodland, Ca |
I'd say both are cool occupations, but it will take a lot of years for you to be good at any of them. Recording engineering is a hard field to break into and it will take many years of you learning the trade to get to the point where you can make any real money (from what I've seen), and then you'll still be competing against others with just as much training or more than you. Don't get me wrong, everybody started sometime and had to get better and get a good reputation, so just be preparred to spend a long time and lots of energy to get good and well know.
As for being a luthier, or guitar tech, that takes a long time too, but you'll probably get more work, but you probably won't make a ton of money. If you have a connection with a luthier ask them their opinion and see how long it will take you and what kind of money you can make. If you have a real tallent at making guitars, then you can make some good money, but it will take a long time to become a skilled luthier. Take woodshop/carpentry classes to start.
Basically, figure out what you'd rather be doing now, 10 years from now, 20 years, etc. If you want to be traveling all over the place, staying up all hours of the day recording, dealing with musicians that may have a bad attitude, spending hours mixing and mastering, then go for it. If you like the smell of glue and sawdust and don't mind sitting in a quiet shop working on guitars and such, then that's the one for you. Just remeber, in 20-40 years you won't be able to get around as well as you can now.
Heck, try and learn both, then you have even more options!
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