Re: NEOTEK: business

[Ike Zimbel]

I second that. I do many things within the audio field as well. It would be difficult to pay my bills just doing studio repairs since there is very little money out there that is allocated for service. Often I get called in when the DIY thing just can't get the problem fixed. So, I have my shop, where I repair all kinds of pro audio gear, including warranty service for Allen & Heath, Clear-Com, Drawmer, Soundcraft, SPL, and Yamaha as well as some others which I have less formal arrangements with. My shop is located inside a large PA company, so I do all of their service, including a lot of Midas audio consoles. I occasionally work as an RF technician (last show, I had 64 active channels of RF on the go), a live sound engineer, and I do some installation and tuning of installed systems, including programming DSP boxes. All in all it adds up to a reasonable living, and, as Don says, I don't end up doing the same thing day in and day out. best, Ike Donald Put wrote: I agree with Ike, but have also embraced the fact that my studio can't support me full time right now.  In my case, I do a myriad of things to keep them all going.  I learned a LONG time ago that having a viable plan B, C, D, etc. in addition to the main plan A can never really be a bad thing.  I have my studio, I tune/tech pianos, I do the occasional electronic repair job, and I wind pickups for a boutique bass guitar builder (we're planning to ramp up the pickup side of the business this year starting at NAMM [www.watsonguitars.net).  Frankly, I don't want to do any one thing day after day anymore as I find mixing it up to be far more interesting to me.  Throughout my life I have moved in 7 to 10 year cycles in regard to employment and generating an income.  What I've done now is just consolidate that idea and make all of them happen concurrently instead sequentially.  Seems to work out OK for me so far. Cheers, -- Don -- Ike Zimbel Zimbel Audio Productions Ltd. Toronto 416-720-0887 "Studio House Calls" - Repairs and upgrades to analog audio equipment including: Amek, Allen & Heath, Neve, Neotek, MCI, Soundcraft and more. ------ You can unsubscribe at anytime by sending an email to mailto:imail...@analogbros.com with "unsubscribe neotek" in the message body. If you have any difficulties, or questions --please send an email to l...@analogbros.com. The Neotek list is lovingly hosted by Catapult Web Development. Remember that any message or reply sent to the list will be automatically forwarded to all subscribers. Vive Le Neotek ! Thanks.