Recording studios are great places to work. There's glamorous people everywhere, staff and clients alike, and every day brings a new celebrity through the door to record their latest album.
As a qualified sound engineer, you'll be twiddling knobs and pushing faders in no time.
Right?
Well, partly.
Recording studios are great places to work. That's true. And we don't want to dispel the thought that with your degree and with your experience you will be on a great career path. It's just that there are a lot of people fighting for very few vacancies.
At the end of the day, work is work. There's paperwork to do, market research to carry out, floors to sweep, tea to make, cables to coil and mend and gear to heft around.
At Space Studios we do have the occasional opening for work (our happy team means that people don't leave!) and also for work experience. We also have lots of enquiries about vacancies and work experience.
The enquiries and applications that stand out for us are from:
If you are one of these kinds of people, please email your covering letter and CV to Jessica Morgan, Managing Director at . Please be patient in waiting for a response.
Some advice
Please do not send songs or showreels, especially by email. If we want to see your work we'll let you know. In the first instance we're looking for very nice, hardworking people. We're sure you can record stuff well or are a great musician but we have to get along with you first!
Do your research. We know that in their quest for work or work experience applicants will be emailing every studio in the area. It just lets them down though if they put all our email addresses in the to: field so we can see who else they've emailed. And then when they say things like "I have found your premises to be an ideal facility" we know that they haven't done their research because all the studios listed are completely different to each other - one is a community studio, one a high-end audio post studio. Find out about the studios to which you're applying - we like to know that you're interested in us!
Speak your language. We like a degree of formality (i.e. don't start your emails, "whatcha matey," but we've had some applicants who seem to be applying for a job in Buckingham Palace rather than a recording studio. It's you we're interested in, and your personality comes across even in an email. Also, please use a spell-checker as nothing irritates us more than bad spelling and grammar.
Give us a call. Don't be afraid to phone us up and ask for more information before you apply. We like eager people!
Don't give up. Finally, don't be disheartened or take it personally if you're unsuccessful. It could mean that we just don't have places available, but if you have an outstanding application, we will remember you. Keep trying with us and with everywhere else too!
For more about the huge array of jobs in the music industry, try this BBC One guide.
