Using the information I've amassed and experimenting on my own. For example, no one ever told me that a single mic in figure 8 pattern can sound wonderful on acoustic guitar from about 18" - 24" out from the neck joint. You get all of the guitar but not all of the room.
Self taught, Homereccer, Planetoidal lurker, read the Harvey Gerst microphone thread, printed it and bound it, swallowed the JBL sound system design reference manual (Download it from the JBL site) and the Neumann microphone book (read the Gerst thread), have Homereccer e-mail addresses in my "Help!" book, experiment with the AKAI stuff, started doing my own sound, do a little bit of small gig and festival sound for very tolerant crowds, lent my best microphone to a local studio to do some testing and ended up with a morning's tutorial...
Three years (out of the seven I was there) at Berklee (Taught me the language and the questions, but NOT the answers), internship (Taught me someone else’s answers), and self taught (aren't we all, really. That is when I found my own answers).
Self taught, Homereccer, Planetoidal lurker, read the Harvey Gerst microphone thread, printed it and bound it, swallowed the JBL sound system design reference manual (Download it from the JBL site) and the Neumann microphone book (read the Gerst thread), have Homereccer e-mail addresses in my "Help!" book, experiment with the AKAI stuff, started doing my own sound, do a little bit of small gig and festival sound for very tolerant crowds, lent my best microphone to a local studio to do some testing and ended up with a morning's tutorial...