If you produce music, you know there’s not really a “right” way to start. you just kind of just acquire bits of gear here and there and hope for the best. for me it was no different. here's a little tour of my desks through my history.

I first started making music seriourly sometime around 2003 with our family computer and a very basic guitar tablature program called Tabit. It used whatever general MIDI sound source that was pre-installed on your computer. while I was able to program some fairly complex things with it, every song ended to become to being very guitar centered (it was for making guitar tabs, after all) and I wanted to eventually make other things. so even though I created folders and folders of "guitar tab" music, I looked into other options. i couldn't use the family computer anymore, i wanted a dedicated desk like the pros had - one specifically for the purpose of making music.

like many other gullible youth in the early 2000s, it was also around this time that I became convinced that in order to become a creative-type you absolutely had to own a Mac. So with funding my summer job then and desperate pleading with my parents to help the difference, I was able to get a Macbook and some gear to begin my building of a “proper” music production studio.

I must have been the only person in the universe this excited to use Garageband. I saw an interview on YouTube (which was new at the time) with John Mayer who boasted how realistic the keyboard guitar sounds were because you could bend the notes. I had a microKORG (who didn't back then?) and an Alesis SR16 drum machine which i considered useless because I didn't understand what a MIDI clock was to get it synced up to anything. After enough experimentation with Garageband I pirated Logic Pro (which I officially own by now, relax) and set up a second monitor because that was what I read the pros did.