just had a band ask me "where I went to school for recording" ...

i think AE school actually reduces your odds of doing anything audio related, because it shoves immeasurable amounts of useless information (sinewave math problems, the physics of a speaker moving in and out, etc.) that kids can't find interesting at first. WE could probably pay attention to shit like that for short amounts of time because we already know the fun stuff, but 19 year old dipshits that know nothing except it'd be cool to record shit...no.

ALSO, since these schools generally have SSL consoles and genelecs, they tend to fill kids heads with the false misconception that you can't accomplish anything without PT HD and 6 figures of analogue gear. i know TONS of kids (literally five off the top of my head) that went to the AE program at newengland institute of art and they're all...terrible and doing nothing now. except this one dude who gets intermittent contracting jobs for live sound, but seems to have no interest in recording bands.

mowell...AE school is total fail.


+1 trillion billion
 
I actually got into a debate last night at work with the owner of a dj company. He had some chick running the the audio in between bands I was mixing and I had free time so I went over to her and I was just bullshitting with her and she ran into a few problems. So I adjusted where the speakers were, cut out some low end from her board, and brought the volume up a touch. Now this chick apparently did go to school for all this stuff but was just staring blankly at her gear.

The owner comes up to me and he's like "that just made it sound so much better what school did you go to to learn that?" So i told him I didnt go to a school i'm just a nerd and research everything on my own. He then continued to tell me i'm lying, "its impossible to learn this trade without going to school" and since I didn't have the "proper education and certifications" that I had no idea what I was doing and not to go near his gear again.

The best part is I said ok and walked away from the gear and went over to my board and started mixing the next live band that came on and you can see he def had a facepalm moment right when he saw the band thank me "the audio engineer" for giving them a great sound.
 
I did a 1-year degree in audio engineering, but at least it wasn't precisely audio engineering, we did a ton of stuff like post-production, foley, lots of stuff about cinema, audio synthesis ( fm synthesis, substractive synthesis, playing around with moogs), etc. And it only cost me 250$ for the whole year. I had lot of times to practice some things I can't do in an appartment too, like micing drums, do mic shoot-outs, etc.

But we're 5 months after we got our diploma, and guess how many people got a job related to this degree? 1 on 17, and his father was already working there...But seriously, most people in these schools actually don't care, they don't realize that to be good in this you have to practice a SHIT TON, they just go to the classes and make their homeworks. In fact, one of my friend working full-time in a studio said that his boss prefer people with no diploma, because after hiring some, people with no diploma are generally more competent.
 
[UEAK]Clowd;9387823 said:
well this is a first.

morons.

has this happened to anyone else yet?

I'd take it as a compliment. I don't see how such an assumption can be something to get upset about. All they were really saying was that they believed your skills took training. I've only had one band say that to me and I was flattered they thought I would have had to have gone to school to do what I do.
 
a buddy of mine that i taught to AE went to a tour for the AE program at AI (newengland institute of art) for audio engineering. the dude giving the tour was bragging about how his time at AI had landed him an internship at q-division, the "premiere" studio over here outside of boston. my buddy, who had already recorded full bands with a firepod, inquired this intern as to what sort of duties he had at the illustrious q-divison, and the interns response was "well you know, i sweep up, get the dudes coffee, pretty soon i'll be able to take care of closing up..."

...wat