Recording school

[Where She Wept]

hey is recording school worth the big bucks? especially with all the stuff you can do on a pc? I mean i already know mixers, compressors, impeadances, ect.... So what do they teach now? Some of the courses i've seen seem awfuly expensive to just learn how to use a particular peice of software. I'm still trying to get enough money for the equipment i need to get started. I got the software and I'm trying to master it so when i do get some good interfaces i can start recording right away.

Later

 

[Sinister Mephisto]

Well it probably would teach you stuff you don't know but like anything you don't need school to learn how to do it. It's probably more useful for getting a job doing that kind of a thing.

I don't know what I'm talking about though so... don't mind me!

 

[Bob Savage]

Some of those schools are BIG bucks. My opinion is it would be better for you to find a good studio that wants a "grunt." Use that opportunity to be mentored, a sort of apprenticeship, in between service coffee.

Seriously, I think you'll learn far more if you can hang around a good engineer than spending money, or worse, borrowing it, and ending up at a studio as a grunt to start off anyway.

For what it's worth, as I'm just a home studio hack...

 

[elmuchoescadawg]

I went to one of the big recording schools and although I learnt a lot about hi end gear and got to work with bands using this gear where are you when youve finished?
By the time I had finished I was very competant in using neve desks and 2" tape machines and a 2 track mastering package called pro tools was on its way.. FSK tape syncing ring a bell to anybody? thought not.

It wouldnt suprise me if most people who go to recording school finish and go and work in a recording school. Have a look in the back of mags like sound on sound at the ratio of training available to situations vacant.