Why Do I laugh..?

[Jet Recording]

Why do I laugh when I look at ads for Audio recording schools with their pictures of a big console in recording/audio magazines? I know its a waste of time and money for the most part.

[Tubz]

Aah, ok? Well, I missed the fun point here... Anyone care to explain? I'm feeling kinda slow here...


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[Severe]

Why do I laugh when I stop to read posts like these with links from the poster to sites with this?: "Jet Recording is operated by Robert Weymouth. He is a graduate of UMass, Lowell with a degree in the university's highly regarded Sound Recording Technology (SRT) program."

Isnt this coming from the same 'school' of thought your criticizing, Jet?


Just pulling your card, man.

[Slim Shady]

There's no way I would be doing as well in the industry as I am without my education from Berklee. Of course I went on scholarship so there wasn't much money on the line, but what I learned there was invaluable and would've taken me at least 3x as long to try and learn on my own.

[yOkO]

:.confused:
here in latinamerica, there are people
who´ll pray for having those education centers.

[prockmat]

The biggest thing I took away from one of those audio schools with their big consoles was becoming familiar with the lingo of the industry. Someone the other day was wondering why his newly recorded audio was drifting from the original audio that came from DA-88s. When I asked if he checked to make sure the TC frame rate was set the same between the 88's and PT, he had no idea what I was talking about. And if you happened to end up in a big studio with a big console to do a session, could you figure out how to get signal to tape? There is a lot of knowledge I take for granted that I learned from going to school. Of course, none of this matters if you're just sitting in your own studio and not interacting with anyone outside of your studio.

However, I did not learn how to be a good engineer from going to school- you can only learn that from working on projects with other people.

[jdlee23]

The biggest thing I took away from one of those audio schools with their big consoles was becoming familiar with the lingo of the industry. Someone the other day was wondering why his newly recorded audio was drifting from the original audio that came from DA-88s. When I asked if he checked to make sure the TC frame rate was set the same between the 88's and PT, he had no idea what I was talking about. And if you happened to end up in a big studio with a big console to do a session, could you figure out how to get signal to tape? There is a lot of knowledge I take for granted that I learned from going to school. Of course, none of this matters if you're just sitting in your own studio and not interacting with anyone outside of your studio.

However, I did not learn how to be a good engineer from going to school- you can only learn that from working on projects with other people.

I agree totally.

And you know what makes me laugh... People who have to resort to putting down other people and their institutions to pump themselves up.

[K-Man]

The biggest thing I took away from one of those audio schools with their big consoles was becoming familiar with the lingo of the industry. Someone the other day was wondering why his newly recorded audio was drifting from the original audio that came from DA-88s. When I asked if he checked to make sure the TC frame rate was set the same between the 88's and PT, he had no idea what I was talking about. And if you happened to end up in a big studio with a big console to do a session, could you figure out how to get signal to tape? There is a lot of knowledge I take for granted that I learned from going to school. Of course, none of this matters if you're just sitting in your own studio and not interacting with anyone outside of your studio.

However, I did not learn how to be a good engineer from going to school- you can only learn that from working on projects with other people.

Sounds like you went to the same school I did!

[shanabit]

Hey Jet Recording. I usually just laugh when I see the price tag of said instituitions. Full Sail for instance. There is a lot to be said for formal instruction though. Nobody can take it away from you but it would be nice if it guaranteed employment post facto.

[Jet Recording]

Shana bit, you are right. I'm glad I got my bachelors degree from a college and it was cool that the college offered an audio recording degree. However..


Point 1: At first, It's not what you know, It's who you know. Every opportunity I have had this statement rings true. Of course they connections knew that I went to school but I still don't think it made a difference to those people.

Point 2: I spent 90% of my recording classes in the back reading EQ, Mix, Recording, and any other audio magizine that I found interesting. (Mix being the least informative). The other 10% must have been in the "studio" classes where there were no magazines around. (there's only so many times I can listen to an instructer talk about how a console is set up, how compression works and is used, Eq, reverb, aux snds, buses, master fader, mic pre and importance of a good one, sound field, stereo imagining, masking, proper mic placement, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,)