We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Bill Mims a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Bill, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

I did go to recording school, but ultimately I learned my craft by working with some of the best engineers and producers around. Watching them work really helped me decide what to do and what NOT to do. Besides having great ears, engineers really need to have people skills. Since making music can make the artist very vulnerable, they need to be able to like and more importantly trust everyone that is in the studio with them.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I started out playing piano when I was young, age 4. Music had always been a part of me and my life, even before deciding to pursue it as a career. I moved from Florida to LA in 2002 and got hired at Sunset Sound. That was the best thing that ever could’ve happened to me. I worked with some of the biggest names in the world (Prince, Justin Timberlake, Brandi Carlile, John Mayer, Morrissey), as well as some of the best engineers and producers around.
Making music with the artists is something that I’ve really grown to love about my career; helping them see their vision come to life is a goal I aim for on every project.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

In today’s world, the best way to support artists and creatives is to pay for the product. It’s so easy to stream material without ever having to pay for it. But in doing so, it makes it very difficult for artists to survive. So, pay for what you can from artists that you actually like! Go to live shows and show your support

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

As an engineer or producer, there are a few rewarding aspects. Firstly would be the artist loving the final product, something we all worked on for many hours. Second would be the response from the public. It’s very rewarding to hear people say that they love a project that I worked on and that it means something to them.

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