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Originally Posted by mixerguy  Good point.
You really have to consider who is teaching you, and are they a full time teacher, or someone who is actually constantly making records (that sound great) and who teaches on the side....  |
Good point - I know someone who "graduated" from an Audio Engineering course in May one year, and was back at the same college as a teacher in September, having never done a single professional session in his life.
It's absurd, and one of the many, many gripes I have with these courses - how many of the "experts" teaching them have actually made records as an engineer or producer?
Virtually every new band I work with nowadays has at least one member who has done a two year course in Audio "Engineering". At least. That's been the case for almost a decade - and yet I can't think of a single one who would be capable of running even the most basic aspects of a session. Concepts like phase cancellation are completely alien to ALL of them. In fact, the very notion of mic choice and placement seems to be new to them as well.
Loads of them have huge debts they are doing really crap jobs for YEARS to pay off.
Almost all of them came out with the impression they were now professional engineers with highly-paid jobs waiting for them. In fact, I used to teach an evening a week, and the money was excellent, but I jacked it in because we were basically lying to these people again and again.
If I'm looking for an assistant for the studio I want the guy who's just left high school, genuinely keen (and NOT someone looking on it as a soft option rather than studying something "hard" like law) and with genuine natural flair, someone who is willing to work and learn on the job.