what is this major called?

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i've been gone for a while due to being in a serious car accident which landed me in the hospital for months but i'm back now thank God. anyways i was just wondering what classes in college do i have to take to be if i want my major to be "mixing engineer" if that's what it's called. what's the major called and can i do it in college or do i have to go to a special audio school for that? thanks
 
mixaholic said:
i've been gone for a while due to being in a serious car accident which landed me in the hospital for months but i'm back now thank God. anyways i was just wondering what classes in college do i have to take to be if i want my major to be "mixing engineer" if that's what it's called. what's the major called and can i do it in college or do i have to go to a special audio school for that? thanks
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Take psycology and bankruptcy. Those two will pretty much do it.

Good Luck
 
mixaholic said:
i've been gone for a while due to being in a serious car accident which landed me in the hospital for months but i'm back now thank God. anyways i was just wondering what classes in college do i have to take to be if i want my major to be "mixing engineer" if that's what it's called. what's the major called and can i do it in college or do i have to go to a special audio school for that? thanks
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Sorry to hear about your accident. Glad to see you're OK.

(sorry, I wish I can answer your question)
 
Whatever you do, just don't go to Full Sail. They produce some of the worst "engineers" ever.
 
mixaholic said:
i've been gone for a while due to being in a serious car accident which landed me in the hospital for months but i'm back now thank God. anyways i was just wondering what classes in college do i have to take to be if i want my major to be "mixing engineer" if that's what it's called. what's the major called and can i do it in college or do i have to go to a special audio school for that? thanks
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not all schools are going to offer a degree in audio recording (some call it Recording Arts, others might call it music technology, sound technology, etc...)

What schools are you looking at? I can't really tell you what classes you have to take because each school is different. You don't want to just look for a school that happens to offer it. Make sure the courses they make you take will benefit you in learning the craft.
 
Change of POETS said:
Whatever you do, just don't go to Full Sail. They produce some of the worst "engineers" ever.
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I'm going to disagree on this one, but everyone's view is different.
Bad personal experiences with former students?
 
Change of POETS said:
Whatever you do, just don't go to Full Sail. They produce some of the worst "engineers" ever.
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proof please......
 
mixaholic said:
i've been gone for a while due to being in a serious car accident which landed me in the hospital for months but i'm back now thank God. anyways i was just wondering what classes in college do i have to take to be if i want my major to be "mixing engineer" if that's what it's called. what's the major called and can i do it in college or do i have to go to a special audio school for that? thanks
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Dunno what it's called in Lynchburg, but in Harrisonburg it's Music Industry ;) It is broader spectrum than just mixing, which is a good thing :)
 
i am pretty sure it is commonly known as "recording arts". this is the whole enchalada though, i dont think there is a degree in just "mixing"... it is pretty important to understand the whole process, and not just mixing. many colleges have courses for this like MTSU, but there are also specialized schools like Full Sail, or Berklee.
 
wow. from that whole list, there's maybe only 3 bands i would willfully listen to to. those being foo fighters, weezer, and maybe beck.
 
The real question is, of the bands listed, how many have had what you would consider quality work done on teir recordings. Whether you actually like the music is irrelevant to this conversation -whether you like the engineering, mix, and mastering is.

kylosius said:
wow. from that whole list, there's maybe only 3 bands i would willfully listen to to. those being foo fighters, weezer, and maybe beck.
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i've always thought weezer has had good productions (primarily pinkerton and blue). i like the foo fighters earlier stuff, because of the rougher edge it had. beck, just kinda does his own thing and that's what i've liked about that.
 
Double major in Physics with applied acoustics and Electrical Engineering. You have that down and you will know what you're talking about.
 
bennychico11 said:
I'm going to disagree on this one, but everyone's view is different.
Bad personal experiences with former students?
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Yes, along with other problems about the school in general.

I actually know an instructor there, and he says the program is complete crap. He can't teach the way he'd truly like to, he has to follow the "Full Sail" format.

Many of the students graduating from Full Sail end up as interns in professional studios, re-learning the basics because Full Sail doesn't teach them the important things they need to know.

Are some students successful? Yes. Are the majority? No. Does the program prepare you for the real job-market of being a mixing or mastering engineer? No.

For the price (upwards of $30K per year) you can get a much better education at other institutions in the same field.

There used to be a website called fullsailsucks.com but, they lost a lawsuit for defamation and had to remove it. It had blurbs of complaints filed by ex-students who couldn't get jobs, had no help with job placement, etc... It was a very informative site. Too bad it's gone.
 
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Are some students successful? Yes. Are the majority? No. Does the program prepare you for the real job-market
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How is this different from any other field of study?

I think a large part of it is false expectations. People expect to come out of those schools being great engineers. It doesn't work that way here any more than it does in any other technical field from electrician to brain suregon.

One doesn't come out of medical school expecting to be a great doctor, nor do the patients. They have to go through internship, residency, and so on before they even start to feel like (or be treated like) real full-fledged doctors. And even then, a signifigant number either don't make it all the way, or if they do, they still aren't very good doctors (my mother's doctor is a real quack, and he's been out of residency and in private practice for some 15 years.)

Of course school cannot prep one adequately for the real world, and of course one has to go through apprenticeship/internship even after years of schooling. That's not just in media engineering, that's in most professional technical fields. That's how it works. Someone expecting to come out of Full Sail and being given a comission to run the next Sgt. Pepper session without diving in way over their head and drowning just has unrealistic expectations of both school and themselves.

G.
 
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