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Helping women and non-binary people create sustainable careers as audio engineers and music producers in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Record Enable is an initiative created in 2022 by Emily Wheatcroft-Snape to help women and non-binary people create sustainable careers as audio engineers and music producers in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The initiative was born out of Emily’s desire to see more gender diversity in technical roles in local recording studios.

There are many barriers that stop women and non-binary people from becoming audio engineers and music producers; lack of role models, hesitancy to ask questions or make mistakes, not being taken seriously by clients or peers, and feeling unsafe in isolated studio environments, amongst many other reasons.

Record Enable uses multi-pronged approach to reach people of different backgrounds with different skill levels and career paths. Ideally our participants have some prior experience in their craft and are looking to develop to the next stage of their technical career. Our events aim to be free, on weekends or evenings, catering provided, and parking available. Our giveaways are available to New Zealand citizens and residents, open to any age, and only require a self-identification of gender identity.

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Record Enable 2024

Our Events

Record Enable runs events in Auckland, Wellington, and online that target different needs for our community.

Studio Skills Workshop

Is designed to provide participants with opportunities to collaborate and record music at a professional level. The goal of the workshop is to help participants, most notably the producers, gain confidence in collaborating and producing high-quality music.

Each day there are three producer rooms with a producer, artist, and collaborator completing a demo the artist has provided. During some events a larger studio space is also available to record drums, piano, and other more substantial instruments.

At the end of the weekend we come together to listen to the music that has been created over the weekend and celebrate the successes of the participants.

This event will next take place in Auckland in 2025

Production Weekend

Two day workshop at Roundhead Studios in Auckland, and Surgery Studios in Wellington.

The weekend aims to up-skill participants in the recording studio to utilise their skills as producers and engineers for paid projects. It supports the practitioners by allowing them to gain experience and build confidence in the spaces they want to work in, plainly lays out expectations and practices within studio environments, teaches them in-depth technical aspects of recording e.g. microphone features and studio routing, introduces them to local studios and practitioners, and builds community amongst participants.

Workshops in 2025 will be at an intermediate to advanced level.
Workshops in 2026 will be at an advanced beginner to intermediate level.

This event will next take place in Auckland in 2025.

Step-Up Program

Three seminars held in-person and online, with two to three panelists hosted by Emily Wheatcroft-Snape. The seminars are then posted online and available to everyone who RSVP'd.

Each panel discusses their experiences and give insight on a given topic chosen by Record Enable. Panelists are experienced in their given fields and are producers/audio engineers or work closely with music creators.

The topics aim to valuable and practical for the Record Enable community.

This event will next take place in 2026

Seminar Series

Provides resources to music creators to help them step-up in their careers, create to their best potential, and enable them to create more frequently.

Equipment Step-Up - aims to set-up a promising practitioner with high quality equipment they can use to elevate their work.

Studio Step-Up - giveaway of self-directed half day studio slots to help music creators who require a studio space to finish a song or project.

Project Step-Up - provides two monetary awards to help music creators who require a monetary help to finish a song or project.

Step-Up with AMPS - provides one free ticket to the Aotearoa Music Producer Series held annually with a successful international music producer.

This event will next take place in 2026

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