Today we’d like to introduce you to Jessie Burner.
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?
I started out playing music as early as 10 years old dabbling in piano and quickly moving onto drums. I started my first band at age 13 and quickly gained some local notoriety in the newspaper headlines at local shows we would play.
We stuck out like a sore thumb. An angry metal screamo band in the middle of blues and folk-rock singers in the Florida Keys. After high school, I had my sights set on music production school. I attended school for one year, got my diploma, and promptly did not work for four years in music. It was discouraging, to say the least.
I kept doing music with my friends and side projects for fun and experimentation and it finally blossomed into some of my first recording clients at Studio 757 in Orlando. Now, I am in year 12 of making a living with my studio and music production. It’s been a slow steady climb but thankfully an upward one.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle-free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
Definitely not always a smooth road. After going to music production school I was under the illusion that I could land work immediately and start getting paid within my music field. I was wrong! Nobody wanted to hire me, especially with little experience. I was almost forced in a way to start my own Studio.
It was terrifying being in my early 20s never having owned anything (much less a business). So now, I had two hills to climb, getting new artists that were willing to pay me for my services and starting my own business and hoping it won’t fail or God forbid doing something illegal that I was unaware of because I was new to business ownership.
I wished there was someone in my family that I could turn to that had experience in this field but I had nothing but. My dad is a landscaper and my mom has worked in a bakery her whole life. Neither of them had the faintest clue what I was actually trying to do, Other than “Music “.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
When I first started my studio I did a lot of research on what other recording studios were doing. I had found that most of them loved milking every dollar out of the artist that they could with fees and charging exorbitant rates for different processes.
I understood why they did this because they wanted to make as much money as possible. Not that I don’t like making money but I found this dishonest and unnecessary and a good way to scare off new artists. With the increasing capability of recording technology. I found it was possible to record, mix, master, and produce music all in the same session under the same hourly rate.
And that’s always been my motto with Studio 757 – Recording, Mixing, Mastering, and Music Production for one hourly rate. It really frees up the artist to create instead of worrying about getting hit with weird fees and high prices.
What matters most to you? Why?
My kid’s family and then friends. I just get to do music. Without those things, life feels pretty meaningless.
No matter how much fulfillment I get from music and creating music with like-minded artists I still look forward to spending time with my kids because at the end of the day it feels like that’s really what truly matters in 100 years.
Pricing:
- Studio $50/hr
- Beats $10-$250
- Mixing $125
- Mastering $20
Contact Info:
- Email: Jessieburnermusic@gmail.com
- Website: www.studio757hd.com
- Instagram: @jessieburner
- Twitter: twitter.com/JessieBurner
- Youtube: YouTube.com/BurnerBeatx
- SoundCloud: SoundCloud.com/JessieBurner
- Other: https://www.beatstars.com/burnerbeatx
