who goes to school for audio??

_boring · Post by **_boring** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:38 am

sorry if there is already another thread.

i tried to school in NYC for Sonic Arts at CCNY, but it was just way too much music theory.

just wondering who is actually in college for audio/music.

misk · Post by **misk** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:44 am

me

i figure, im gonna major in something... so why the fuck not?

knobgoblin · Post by **knobgoblin** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:18 am

I got a BFA in Music Technology and Composition and am going back for a Masters next year

djake · Post by **djake** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:20 am

im doing a national diploma in music tech and hoping to go to uni once i finished

stapleface · Post by **stapleface** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:20 am

doin my BTEC at the moment.
in theory.
the snow is doin its best it would seem...
nearly a whole week without logic- I might cry.

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:44 am

I went from 92 to 94. I know how to splice tape and all that shit. I even know how to use ADAT recorders and Protools 1.0. Woohoo.

djake · Post by **djake** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:49 am

abZ wrote:I went from 92 to 94. I know how to splice tape and all that shit. I even know how to use ADAT recorders and Protools 1.0. Woohoo.

haha your old

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:45 am

Music Tech FDSC course, 3 days a week, not too shabby

peiratis · Post by **peiratis** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:37 pm

studying music technology

_boring · Post by **_boring** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:03 pm

yea but WHERE

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:04 pm

not yet, but im aplying to the SAE institute audio production, http://www.sae.edu/
seems awsome, hope i get in

b-lam · Post by **b-lam** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:11 pm

maan I hate being taught music, I've been doing it since I was 7 I don't need someone to tell me how to do this...

having said that, learning an instrument or doing theory grades has helped me in the past.

macc · Post by **macc** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:19 pm

There’s 2 people.

One leaves school and decides he wants to work in audio. He looks hard and eventually finds a job in a studio earning crap money and gets trained from the ground up in the realities of running a studio. In about 2 years he’s helping engineer sessions and doesn’t make quite so much tea. He records bands after hours and makes a few extra quid that way.

The other goes to SAE. He studies for two years, passes the course and leaves with his qualification. He knows a few people from the course, so he finds a job in a studio earning crap money and being taught from the ground up in the realities of running a studio. In about 2 years he’s helping engineer sessions and doesn’t make quite so much tea….

My 2p

Mad_EP · Post by **Mad_EP** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:06 pm

-boring wrote:yea but WHERE

I went to McGill University in Montreal to study Sound Recording for a year after graduating with my degree in Cello Performance from Northwestern (outside Chicago).

I went, knowing I didn't want to be an engineer, but studied to give a more technical background to the classical music broadcast production I was doing at the time.

Most of the people I went to school with came out with some pretty cool jobs- some got hired by the CBC, others got hired by festivals such as Banff, and a couple even got picked up by some audio gear companies. I did a bunch of freelance sound design before doing some other non-related gigs.

Even though I don't really do any classical production anymore (I might get back into at some point), I am still glad I went. I feel it definitely helps me a lot with me own music- and while it isn't the only way to learn about this stuff, it was the right way for me to learn it.

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:21 pm

-boring wrote:yea but WHERE

I went to school at the Los Angeles Recording School in Hollywood. Not a bad school at all, although the tuition has gone up since I went due to them being bought by Full Sail. If you are serious about going to school for it I would suggest you move out here. Not just because of the schools (which there are alot) but because if you want to get into recording as a career (or loads of other audio careers) its the place to be.

Macc wrote:There’s 2 people.

One leaves school and decides he wants to work in audio. He looks hard and eventually finds a job in a studio earning crap money and gets trained from the ground up in the realities of running a studio. In about 2 years he’s helping engineer sessions and doesn’t make quite so much tea. He records bands after hours and makes a few extra quid that way.

The other goes to SAE. He studies for two years, passes the course and leaves with his qualification. He knows a few people from the course, so he finds a job in a studio earning crap money and being taught from the ground up in the realities of running a studio. In about 2 years he’s helping engineer sessions and doesn’t make quite so much tea….

My 2p

Theres also this^^, tbh. Had I had any clue that it was like this, I would have gone straight to a studio and saved my money. LA is also a great place to get into the industry this way.

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