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I was 13 around the first time I started hanging around recording studios. Recording some of the first songs I had every written. I realise that’s a very privileged position to be in, and I’m very grateful to have had that experience. One session, I remember being sat with the sound engineer listening to what we just created. I asked him questions, how do we get it to sound like that? What do these things do? (Referring to the faders on the sound desk). The sound engineer shut me down when I asked (not the guy in this pic just for clarity lol) He’d joke and say something like ‘the faders are just for show to make us look like we’re doing something’ or ‘don’t worry about it’. Looking back I imagine the people I was working with probably saw it differently, and saw a naive teenager asking a lot of questions, wanting to concentrate on what they were doing in the studio. But it’s always stuck with me. Never in my teenage years did I see someone I could relate to behind the sound desk. I never thought it was a place I could explore. If guy A shuts you down, when you go to guy B you’re nervous to ask questions, and the cycle continues of feeling like that isn’t a place you belong. It’s been around 6 months since I started my music production properly. I finally feel comfortable exploring this side of my music. Sometimes it’s not that fun being a woman artist, exploring all your feelings through music to a music producer if you feel shut down. A good relationship with the music producer is SO NECESSARY. I have a long way to go as a producer, but I’m not going to hide it or make it small anymore. It’s upsetting seeing woman feeling like they can’t do it, because they don’t feel advanced enough in the skillset to vocalise it. When a man starts producing, you don’t see him hiding it. When a woman starts producing, she keeps it hidden until she feels she is at an equal level, until she can talk about it. We all need to talk about our progress to normalise women in music production. I can only ask my male producer friends to try and understand what that experience may feel like for a woman in sound. Keep pushing to find your place in the studio gals 💛✨💪🏽#womeninmusic

weekend joy ✨✨✨

getting giddy that live music is slowly creeping back into reality. what venues/artists are you going to see first? ✨💛

monday funday ✨🌻💛

celebrating my one year at @bandonthewall coming to an end 💛✨😭 forever grateful for @bellahardy (the best music mentor ever) and the rest of the team for all of the support over the past year. It’s been an amazing journey and a huge stepping stone in my career so far. Please go support the fantastic venue they are when they reopen! #thursdaybeers #wahhhh 💛💛✨

hope you’re all having fun on your newly ventures outside in the actual world!✨ shout out to the introverts like me who are still in the cocoon 🌙 thank u for the 💛 on the WPWTTC bts video last week! 3am and Rain in Cali vids are coming 🌻🌻✨✨

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KATE GAMBHIR, Blog at WordPress.com.

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