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Originally Posted by Brian!  I would think you would at least want to learn the basics at home or own your own before hitting any kind of studio to learn whatever. In order to be taken seriously in a professional environment, you need to at least learn the basics and one of the best ways to do so is through a minimal home setup. |
This is 100% true. I myself won't hire on interns without
any experience for my studio. But the tools to learn and practice at home are so ubiquitous, it's almost a given that anyone applying for an internship has at least *some* grasp of the most basic of fundamentals.
That said, I don't care if the applicant knows how to do anything beyond identify and plug in mics, when to shut up (or perhaps, more accurately, when to speak), and how to operate a vacuum. And I'm fairly liberal with my interns; a lotta places don't care if the intern knows anything other "keep quiet and clean the toilet". They don't touch any of the gear till they've earned it, so they may very well actually learn the most basic basics on the job. Again, it all depends on the studio and the background of its staff.
In any event, the interns learn a great deal about etiquette (which, IMO, is HUGELY important; probably moreso than sound quality, to be honest). From there, if they're any good, they'll be asked to assist and thus learn the technical and (hopefully) creative end of things. If they're really good, they'll land the hand-me-downs from the head engineers, or perhaps be asked by a visiting producer to engineer the next gig.
And that's when the real learning starts...
