Today we’d like to introduce you to Eric Meyer.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Our story starts out quite simply with a dream while working a full time job and traveling a minimum of 275 days a year. I have always been a musician at heart and I have always been fascinated with all the knobs that you see on mixing consoles. One day after having band rehearsals I sat down with my wife outside to look around and relax and then she said that we need to build a studio and we need to do it right. Once that idea was planted we went on the search for property and upon finding the land we proceeded to break ground and start building the studio. As good luck would have it, eight years later the studio was completed. It took us such a long time because we did most of the work ourselves with the biggest help coming from our friends: David Del Valle, Anthony Rodriguez and Marc Nirenberg. Without these guys we would not have been able to accomplish what we built and it should be known that these guys always were in our corner and were always ready to lend a hand.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The road has been anything but smooth. The struggles for us consisted of answering an endless barrage of questions which seemed like an endless set of hurdles. We always worried about how were we going to complete the construction, what if we run out of funds, and what are our blind spots in our planning. Of course there was a myriad of smaller questions however these basic big questions pretty much encompass our worries. When you do everything on a boot strap budget you get to be really close to all the questions you need to answer and you get to be very close to every decision along the way as well as many sleepless nights.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
As someone who grew up wanting to be Gene Simmons of Kiss from the Destroyer album as a kid, I had the fun of discovering that I was vertically challenged or short in height so it seemed like I had a strike against me. However, I always wanted to play bass guitar however the day we went shopping for a music instrument the salesman told my Mom that I was to little to play bass and told her that I should play guitar. There was another blow to my bass guitar ambitions. The other disappointment was knowing that we lived four hours away from a recording studio where I could learn all the things I wanted to learn. Although those seemed like handicaps at the time, it seems that those obstacles seemed to make me become more determined and it taught me how to work through disappointment. It was definitely not a straight line to get where I wanted to be however it seems that I found my way where I wanted to go.
How can people work with you, collaborate with you or support you?
It is actually really easy to work with me if you want to put in the work. All anyone really needs to do is ask me a question and I think people would be surprised how quick I am to respond with a solution and/or an opportunity. The thing I have learned along the way is to simply speak up and know that the answer is NO if I don’t ask. This became evident when we created a global collaboration video of musicians creating and performing to a backing track that we sent them. If it wasn’t for NAMM I would have never met Dino Fiorenza who played on the video. Then there is my friend Laurie Monk who is a photographer for Truth In Shredding and he introduced me to Antoine Mikhtarian and Juan Antonio. Then Antoine and Juan introduced me to other people and pretty soon there were 18 musicians helping to bring our global collaboration video to life. I always have people that I want to talk to that I admire and so I always ask because the worst thing they can tell me is NO. The best thing about approaching people that I don’t know is that I get to learn new things. The word NO doesn’t change my position at all, it simply redirects me somewhere else to ask another question. If someone would like to work with me, I always have an open invitation so that anyone can ask any question and then we can see where it goes.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.thenoizfaktory.com
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