How many of you went to audio engineering school?

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:34 pm

Karmacazee wrote:I'd love to learn how to fix my equipment/make new stuff/circuit bend. Anyone recommend some resources for musical electronic engineering?

Google.

Search for 'circuit bending forums' and 'modular synth kits' etc...

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:41 pm

no.

learned everything from working with folks, asking questions (and alternatively shutting the fuck up and letting things happen when i knew i was out of my league), reading, researching, and making a boatload of terrible tunes, coupled with recording really bad songs with questionable bands in dodgy studios.

The majority of folks i know these days are in "the business," and only 1 went to audio school. Now granted, he's got a great gig as sound tech for "hair" on broadway but otherwise, nearly everyone got in on the ground floor and hustled. Those who stayed in studios got really, really good at wrapping mic cables and making coffee before anything else.

djake · Post by **djake** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:46 pm

im at college doing music tech....most of the stuff i no i taught myself in the 2-3 years i was doing music production before i went to college.

plus it keep my mum happy and i get a bit of paper at te end of it saying i can do such thing, i suppose

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:50 pm

I did

in 1992-93

learned in the first non-privately owned protools rig at Mira Costa College in Oceanside, CA

the computer was housed in a room the size of my house

q23 · Post by **q23** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:58 pm

I did a year at MMI for audio engineering, then began setting up 100k watt walls of sound at rave parties in the mid 90s.

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:15 pm

FSTZ wrote:I did

in 1992-93

I was probly still shitting in my nappies back then

gantzgraf · Post by **gantzgraf** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:29 pm

i am in one at the moment

k_k · Post by **k_k** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:41 pm

Everything ive learnt so far has been off teh tinterweb and mates, Going to do music tech at college and hopefully go on to do sound engineering(or somethig similar) at uni. Would love to find a job related to music

osky · Post by **osky** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:15 pm

nowaysj wrote:80% self taught, 30% forum tought I'm a smarty pants.

I would never ever go to any type of school for any artistic purpose.

did u skip maths to teach yourself music?

3za · Post by **3za** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:06 pm

I would never ever go to any type of school for any artistic purpose.

music is art and craft. you cant learn art, but you can learn craft. and the word production is more of a craft word

i aint done no muzik at college

knobgoblin · Post by **knobgoblin** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:26 am

@karmakazee: check out the IC Op Amp Cookbook or any of Reed Gazahla's books. On top of learning about audio engineering and sound design and composition, CalArts also taught me a lot about building electronics and designing software, which transitioned into my current job of building analog modular synths, so for me, it was definitely worth it.

my_fickle_eye · Post by **my_fickle_eye** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:34 am

did a music tech course for a few years after being in bands for ages but didnt really like types of dance music, so didnt learn as much as i should of. Started to play piano, bass n guitar when i was young and about structures scales and harmonies etc before then and sequenced drums from this forum and a few others! vsts from messing around with pre sets

Think you can still have a creative goal with your music that you want to acheive in your head without having the production know how to do it.

toshish · Post by **toshish** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:57 am

I'm going to Expressions College for Digital Arts for Audio Engineering right now, I love it and I'm gaining exactly the knowledge and experience I came for. I agree that school cant make someone an artist, however knowledge is power and school gives just that. Of course most of my knowledge is self taught, my personal research, constructive criticism and advice from friends and peers, CM mag definitely a good resource. If you want something go get it, I went to school because it's a resource, you make strong connections, have access to good technology and libraries, have teachers who know their shit, plus you get a degree, bottomline is school is only gonna get you as far as you wanna go. If you want to be something just do it, how you get there doesn't matter as long as your happy with what you do.

r · Post by r » Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:09 pm

you craft with your tools. The better you know your tools, the better you can expres your art

macc · Post by **macc** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:10 pm

R wrote:you craft with your tools. The better you know your tools, the better you can expres your art

Amen.

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