Recording engineer college help

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Just a general thing to ad about higher education
I took a year off after getting out of high school, after a year, everybody told me to go now or I would never go. Like an idiot I listened to them. I wasnt ready for college, I would get so bored with class, I would just get up and leave and go hang out at the music store, or search the pawn shops for music gear. My band was going to make it big after all, school wasnt that important.


If I had waited another semester or two, I could have grown up a bit and taken things more seriously. As it was, I self desctucted and wasted a whole lot of my parents money. I feel bad about that to this day. I now make good money, but I could have been where I am now 10 years ago if I just hadnt gone so soon and screwed around.

Take your time, if you arent sure what you should do, go to a comunity college and take some of the basic courses like math etc. that you will have to take no matter where you go.
 
i dunno, all good advice, and honest, but whether i should take it all to heart im starting to doubt now.

I've realized with all professions, if you ask people about it, like this, you generally get discouraging answers.

Every job is like that, you start from the bottom and work your way up, and you have to do the shitty stuff before you can do the good stuff.

Im considering becoming a pilot (i work at the airport with a lot of pilots or training pilots), and i keep getting told its really hard startin out, you don't make decent money for 10 years, and you have to really claw your way through your first jobs, making barley enough to live, cut-throat style.

And that kind of discouraged me, and i looked back to my other dreams of being a studio guy and working in a studio tracking and recording and mixing and playing with gear, and buying gear, and learning about it. etc... I find it really intresting, and i love problem solving, just mixing for like 8 hours straight figuring how to make things work. I found the same thing with math and c++ at times, i just liked solving the problems (some logical, some not). So i started looking into schools, asking questions, then i found this thread.
the exact same sinking feeling came over me after reading this, just as it did when i talked to the pilots. And i've had similar experiences talking to people about computer courses (another option for me).

Now there are cold hard facts that can't be denied. How strong the market is for jobs. Basically if you can get a job or not from your education, if people will hire you, if you can get a steady job making good money, if you have the prospect of making a LOT of money in the future, etc...

But i mean, every industry seems to be like that, so it seems that you just have to do what you love, and what honestly intrests you. Sounds cheesy but you just have sit still, shut your brain down, and just find what makes your heart happy not your brain.

Im sure many of you will thinking im bein naive about it. And YES, you still have to use your head, and its pointless to get into an industry with no future... but.... i don't think the audio one is quite like that yet...

I dunno maybe i should just take comptuer courses and work for microsoft, or become a pilot, and when im eventually making good money, buy my own studio and just run it on the side...

Any thoughts on that? Kinda rambling, trying to express some feelings i can't really express through words... Some of it might have come out.

What do you guys think? is it really pointless going to school to be an audio guy? (studio, engineering, tracking, mastering, mixing, whateve,r i dunno the proper name for any of those professions) Am i better off getting high paying job working with computers and do the recording on the side?

You'll probably think that because im willing to consider a different job that im not really that into recording, which isn't true, i just want to be realistic and not go down a dead end road..

sorry for long ramblingness, i need to get over that.
 
yeah

I agree here. I once heard, the more you know, the more valuable you become. Here is my story of things.

In the past 2 years i have been involved with music, i have been extremely blessed. Currently, I do Christian hip hop production and worked with people fromn all over the globe. I am beginning to get "good" (as some people are putting it) and getting asked to do album cameos and things like that.

I have been tossing the thought around about going to engineering college. However, I landed an internship at BEC recordings (mxpx, supertones, etc) and have a guy teaching me the business. He is also going to get me in with the studio engineer there in their world class studio and get me hands on training in an internship there.

On top of that, The YMCA has been in the process of putting together a studio, which they would like me to help run, which would allow me "extra" time to practice what I learn at BEC.

I have been blessed with finding a lot of cheap equipment as well, so my hopme studio is looking pretty good as well...

Its been a blessing, praise God...just rolling with what I'm given!
 
c9-2001 said:
$15,000 for the miami and new york campus
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That is a better price than full sail offers and that is $31,000 for about 13 months I would rather pay 15 than 30
 
hahaha

YES, LMNO...Leave my name out....dope rapper...I am a Christian producer, and yes i know of him. The guy I am working at the recording company worked out a collab with Playdough and LMNO, and the joint is just so sick...it comes out October 22 and the song is worth the price of the album alone..."Playdough-Lonely Superstar." the song is called "Shadowdance"
 
ambi-

i think you're right on.

i mean, the one post that mentioned "taking a couple of years off school and getting some things out of your system" <paraphrase>, is what it is all about to me.

I'm not going to recording school, but for me it has to be about believing you are better than everyone else, and that you will make it to the top.

you have to try, you have to get it out of your system. it isn't just going to go away, you'll be 40 and wondering what you should have done differently.

*someone* is going to make it big.

so, go for it. and yes...it's like that in any industry as far as people talking schmack. If you are a marketing major "everyone is a business major...do something more specialized", if you do something more specialized, you have to claw your way.

everyone will have to pay their dues regardless, might as well pay them for something you love.
 
exactly, im thinking it would be more worth my while to invest in gear, and my time in practicing recording, and maybe volunteer at a studio.
and then do whatever.. maybe fly on the side.
 
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