Colleges for Recording/Engineering?

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Hey does anybody around here no of any good schools around the North-east Georgia area or Atlanta area that have some good training programs in Recording and music production? or even online classes?

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SAE.com

schools all over the place, i'm a student there now and I have nothing but the best to say about it. It's really great. I've heard good and bad things about fullsail in orlando (winter park) and there are a couple other schools in NYC but I forget the names.. Institute of audio research i think

Def check out SAE.
Scott
 
Just intern, you'll learn alot more. This thread isn't supposed to be here, btw.
 
buddy of mine went to fullsail, said he liked it, didn't hear much more about it - we kinda lost touch. haha
 
A buddy of mine went to the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, they have a pretty descent four year program there, and the final requirement for the program is to intern at a studio. He got an internship at Right Track Recording in NYC and they've now put him on the payroll.
 
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SAE.com

schools all over the place, i'm a student there now and I have nothing but the best to say about it. It's really great. I've heard good and bad things about fullsail in orlando (winter park) and there are a couple other schools in NYC but I forget the names.. Institute of audio research i think

Def check out SAE.
Scott
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I'm a freshman in the Music Technology program at NYU. IAR is a block away from my dorm and is pretty much a joke - a not nearly as good fullsail. But if you don't want college, something like that is a decent way to go.
 
yeah i seriosuly considered recording school for a while too.

luckily I have some contacts who could sway my decision elseware.
my uncle knows ed cherney.
my other uncle has a friend david dubow who manages a studio in LA that records orchestras, mostly scores.
and in Cincy I met a couple people who are lightweight into the local scene.

anyway, I heard from every one of them that the PRO industry is dying. combination of digital recording (cheaper), independant labels, digital distrobution, homerecording (like us!, ha)...etc.
They suggested I do not go to school that will ONLY prep me for a job in the recording industry.

instead, i'm double majoring at ohio university (a good engineering program). Electrical Engineering and Audio/Music Production (although I may switch to post-production after i finish all these music classes, haha).
Eddie Ashworth is the audio proffessor here (worked on a lot of the sublime albums, etc.). I think it's awesome to have somebody teaching stuff who's been there.

anyway, I'm learning everything I CAN learn here, and it seems to be the consensus everywhere that EXPERIENCE is the greatest teacher anyway. I'm focusing on EE (to make sure I at least have a job. haha.), and in themeantime i'm recording on the side up here and back at home over our long winter break. I think it's perfect.

don't know if that helps you with your decision, but that's how i did it/am doing it! ha
 
MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY!!!!! I'm not even in the program yet and have learned SOOOO much from my prerequisite classes. You can gain a lot of experience if you make an effort. You can hang out at the studios at any time and watch the sessions. I get paid by the school to help setup and take down audio equipment (tonight I'm taking apart the PA from Kanye West)
Check it: http://www.mtsu.edu/~record/
 
I went to Full Sail and it's a great school. The reason you hear mixed things is that a lot people get through cheating etc. and don't end up learning enough to be a good intern and work their way up. However, if you really grind away while you're there and immerse yourself in the environment, you will learn a lot, and you will be prepared to be a good intern and assistant. The nice thing is that you learn on all of the gear that studios are using, from low level to top level stuff. Don't go there to party, or you'll be wasting your money.
 
Ya, thats what I had assumed about fullsail. Seems like too many kids go there right out of HS and party alot, then have to cheat to get by
too bad.. seems like a nice school.
 
shackrock, i just got accepted to OU for next year to major in post production. Sounds like agreat program, and i got to meet the professor on my last college visit. Seems like a great guy.
 
yeah he's a real good guy, and hilarious. ha.
I may see you in classes later in your sequence, cuz before I graduate I still wanna take some post prod classes (for video, etc.).
 
Another thumbs up for Middle Tennessee State University. Top-notch program outside Nashville, state-of-the-art studios, offers audio & video production programs, digital imaging, university radio & television stations...the works. If you're a Georgia citizen, I think you get to pay Tennessee resident rates.

Also Belmont University in Nashville is good, but expensive (private) and much more limited in its course offerings. But they have better relationships with Music Row and thus better internship opportunities.

Now here's a little story. My father co-founded one of Nashville's most successful jingle production houses back in the 1970s. They also built one of Nashville's premiere recording studios in the process, which was sold in the 1990s.

One day in the mid 1970s, a guy came in off the street and said he wanted to work in the studio for free. After telling him no several times, the president of the company finally told him he could work in the dub room. After several weeks of working full-time for no pay, the president told him he wanted to make him an employee.

To cut to the chase, over the next few years, that guy ended up learning everything he could and moved from the dub room to assistant engineer and then head engineer/studio manager. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was nominated for (and I think even won) a few Grammys for his engineering work on several country albums. And in the late 1990s, the guy who started working for nothing in the dub room ended up buying the studio for a few million dollars.

Just goes to show you that education isn't nearly as valuable as dedication.
 
Toddler said:
If you're a Georgia citizen, I think you get to pay Tennessee resident rates.
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Yes, that should be true. The "academic common market". If your state doesn't have a school with a RIM program you can go out of state to a school that does and pay the in-state price. I'm from KY and pay in-state price.
 
I just did a webcast at a really cool facility here in the bay area: Epresssion Center for New Media. 2 years and $45,000 gets you the opportunity to intern at a studio...

The students were cool. We also must have gotten a new crew: varying levels of enthusiasm, almost no level of ability. No professionalism whatsoever. It was an interesting environment to be it, but there was a common level of slackerdom (present in most people that age when they are doing something they "have" to do- even if they are paying to do it) that I almost couldn't believe. They kids are paying for access to state of the art facilities (3 SSL studios with 2" 24's, a fancy PT HD rig or 2, an onsite live performance stage with live video webcasting, mixing, a full monitor rig, etc...) and would rather chat with each other during "lab" time than pay attention to the instructor or the band.

Now the instructor was another matter. He really knew his stuff. It was a pleasure working with him.

I can see why there isn't tons of respect in the pro audio community for fresh grads from such programs. Still, these guys were new. We're heading back for another webcast in the spring and I hope we get a more seasoned crew. I'd really like to improve my experience and opinion of what these kids can absorb at such programs.

Take care,
Chris
 
I used to go to Clark University in Worcester, Mass. They had a recording program they call "Computer Music." I guess they called it this because most of the program revolved around recording to the hard drive of a Power Mac G3. However, they have a VERY VERY sweet setup, ADATs, MIDI, 2 different recording rooms, a drum room, it was awesome. I learned so much there, even though the prof focues a lot on the early electronic music; he still taught us loads about recording and techniques.

Now I go to U. Maine's flagship campus in Orono. They have very, very little in this area and I am rather dissappointed. I'm luck I have been able to teach myself what I didn't learn at Clark U., mostly how to set things up and build my own components.

I wish you the best of success in you search for a school with the programs you want. You may also want to look into Husson College in Maine. I believe they have an ausio engineering program through their Bangor campus.

I know neither of these are in NE Georgia, and I doubt they have online classes, but it's worth a try.

Jason
 
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