Setting the Stage

            This journey of earning my Master’s degree in Entertainment Business has been a very enlightening one.  I never imagined myself going back to school after earning my Bachelor’s.  However, it seemed to be great time to go back to school and learn about the entertainment business.  I was hoping to one day be able to use that knowledge to open my own music venue.  In the end, I came away with valuable education on how businesses are created, managed, and eventually evolved.  This is a chronicling of my journey at Full Sail University and the classes and projects I completed.

            Technology has really come a long way in the live music industry.  It is becoming easier to perform tasks that would normally take a large amount of effort and time.  Custom settings can be saved and recalled instantly instead of having to write down every knob position on paper.  A guitarist’s entire collection of effects pedals can all be replaced with a single digital effects rig.  Recording music “in the box”, or using recording software through a computer, can have the same quality as a recording coming from a multimillion dollar studio.  As a user of Line 6 products, I recently discovered their products for live mixing and its effectiveness for independent performing musicians.