Sound Engineering

Cian H

Anyone here do it or doing it?

Lump

TBH, I do media production in college, I have a huge interest in sound engineering, Why?



John

Gordon

I did the School of Audio engineering (SAE) in Scotland (Glasgow). I absolutely loved it, you can bring bands of your choice in to record for overnight sessions. It is great but very expensive. The one in London is even more expensive but has much better gear to train on but less studio time available for private use.

Lump

Yea, When I go back now next week, I'm gonna be trained in to the digital studio, plenty of new buttons to play with ;0




John

Cian H

I'm starting it tomorrow, i was just wondering if its any good.
Where do you go to college? (lump)

cartman

where u doing it cian and how many points is it?
sound cool

Cian H

Dun laoighre college of further education, its a plc so no points required, just pass the leaving.

Stephen

Lump goes to college in Carlisle, north england. Can't remember the name of the place itself.

Lump

I'm in Cumbria Institute of the arts. But they have loads of cool equipment cause they do pop music degrees and **** like that.


John

Sliotar

any one now the name and place of the course in london? i've been tryin to tarck down as much info as i can on sound engineering, i really want to do it next year, but i have'nt found anything suitable as of yet

mike65

Browsing through Sound-on-Sound I found this in London-
www.point-blank.co.uk a real hands on place rather than
a third level facility, though it says acredited by the London Open Collage Network. Worth a look I'd say.

edit. Just a thought as a practising desktop muso, it seems to me that the only good reason to do such a course these days is to get a few contacts, everything else you can learn at home.

Mike.

Gordon

The school of audio engineering does. SAE.

I agree with Mike above but if you really want to go places in the recording industry ie. you want to work in a proper recording studio - actual experience on desks such as SSL and Neve are almost imperative. Although in America digi systems are more utilised such as Pro Tools therefore in America it is maybe more valuable to know these types of media inside out.

I worked in a recording studio over here in Ireland and couldn't have done it without previous experience on an SSL desk. In London SAE you get to work on a lovely Neve fully automated desk! nyom. (London is the more expensive SAE although the cheaper Glasgow SAE has a week trip and time slots for the Neve for you).

Or maybe you want a course within college? If so I don't have a clue

mike65

I can't help but think that in 10 years the traditional hardware studio set-up will be seen as an expensive liability, as more and more cheaper options such as ProTools and other computer/software based set-ups are used for mainstream releases.

Still time will tell.

Mike.