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Simple Question:


Who went to school for audio engineering and who just learned everything by themselves online or from friends or whatever.. ?

I had one of those wotsits out of The Matrix plugged into the back of my neck... Took about 5 hours.

I woke up and said, 'I know compression'.

It was all quite simple really.

i'm at college doing music tech at the moment
to be honest it helped me so much

lol at futures_untold btw XD

edit: double post xD sorry!

Err... Books. And Computer Music magazine.

And an uncalculable amount of all-nighters experimenting.

futures_untold wrote:I had one of those wotsits out of The Matrix plugged into the back of my neck... Took about 5 hours.

I woke up and said, 'I know compression'.

It was all quite simple really.

that would be sick!

I think I'm going to be going to Recording Arts Canada in Sept 2010.. I mostly want to go for Engineering.

I thought about audio school.
But then decided to pursue a marketing degree instead..

I went to music school for composition and electronic media, learned most of the engineering stuff from friends and peers. about to go back for grad school as well.

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

yea i feel like it would be fun, but then how awkward would you feel coming back to the real world after?

"so i got a degree in pottery"

"thats fascinating, so are you opening a booth in a ghetto indian market?"

I'm self taught. Forums and the intersquirt are really useful too...

I did a music tech module in Uni that introduced me to Cubase, and the wonderful world of computer based music.

But I failed!



Since then, I tort meself evryfink

going to running start next year, which basically means i get to take community college classes for free while going to highschool, im taking this...

MUSC 185 - COMPUTER MUSIC AND RECORDING
Intro to the technical skills of electronic music production and recording. Covers the basic elements of music including listening, improvising, recording, arranging, mixing and digital editing. Create original music using stimuli. Learn mixing and audio production, including sound shaping, effects use and midi sequencing.

talked to my buddy who took it last year and he said you basically just learn how to use reason 4 and get a lot of time to fuck around on it, pretty stoked especially since im not paying anything to take it.

I went to college and was taught nothing but learned loads off friends,books and the internet. now I'm at uni doing audio engineering

going to Berklee next semester for Bass performance...but ill be taking some production classes

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

Depending on the school, it might not be. Several universities I looked at had audio recording separate from their music programs.

In Toronto we're forced to take up an instrument from grades 6-8... I chose Trumpet in grade 6....

by grade 7 I was so bad at trumpet, my music teacher made me play drums instead...

then I sat on the big marching band bass drum and hammered the shit out of it as well as hit break beats on the set...

I wasn't a great, but I went to school... lol...

More relevantly, I've just been fucking with fruity loops / reason / ableton for the past few years

Like futures untold I spend all nighters often...

Haven't gone to audio engineering school but I might in the future. I did intern at a recording studio for a year or so though and that helped me a ton.