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Formal schooling in electronics or recording more important for recording career?
If someone wants to make a long term career in recording, would you
advise them to get formal schooling in electronics and pick up recording knowledge as they go or vice-versa? It seems having an in-depth knowledge of electronics is crucial to having a well-rounded understanding of recording. Or do you feel this is not correct? Do you feel someone can rightfully call themselves a recording "expert" without extensive electronics knowledge? Do schools like Full Sail emphasize such nuts-n-bolts knowledge? |
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If someone wants to make a long term career in recording, would you advise them to get formal schooling in electronics and pick up recording knowledge as they go or vice-versa? It seems having an in-depth knowledge of electronics is crucial to having a well-rounded understanding of recording. Also, having formal schooling in electronics is apt to get you hired somewhere. There is a real demand for people who can do maintenance work, and that is a good path into any studio. Or do you feel this is not correct? Do you feel someone can rightfully call themselves a recording "expert" without extensive electronics knowledge? Lots of people do. I think that's a bad thing, personally, but it is very common today. Do schools like Full Sail emphasize such nuts-n-bolts knowledge? From what I have seen of Full Sail grads, I have no idea WHAT they emphasize but knowledge does not seem to be something they do. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:47:29 -0700, brassplyer wrote:
If someone wants to make a long term career in recording, would you advise them to get formal schooling in electronics and pick up recording knowledge as they go or vice-versa? It seems having an in-depth knowledge of electronics is crucial to having a well-rounded understanding of recording. Or do you feel this is not correct? Do you feel someone can rightfully call themselves a recording "expert" without extensive electronics knowledge? Very few recording engineers do equipment maintenance more complicated than soldering a few leads nowadays. Modern recording gear is not really designed to be repaired on site. It's mostly not modular so it's a bitch to take apart and is all surface mount components and digital electronics. I'd say it's useful to know how equipment works, but as you are unlikely to be able to repair it, a smattering of theory is enough. Knowing about impedance, ground loops and basic electrical safety is really worthwhile, but you don't really need formal schooling to pick that up. Do schools like Full Sail emphasize such nuts-n-bolts knowledge? |
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Walt wrote: wrote: If someone wants to make a long term career in recording, would you advise them to get formal schooling in electronics and pick up recording knowledge as they go or vice-versa? Unless the person plans on a career desiging equipment, learn the art of recording. The best way is by doing it. Alot. If you want to have a career in recording, get out there and start recording things. It seems having an in-depth knowledge of electronics is crucial to having a well-rounded understanding of recording. It helps, but is neither necessary nor sufficient. How would one truly understand the understand the in's & out's of a particular mic, board, mixer, compressor, eq etc. along with various digital (or analog) recording theory without a solid grounding (no pun intended) in electronics? Seems the frustration a lot of the pros on here express regarding opinions by some is based on what they perceive to be a fundamental lack of understanding of how things work. My perception, which could be wrong, is that a lot of the regular contributors in here such as Scott Dorsey, Arny Krueger, Mike Rivers, etc. have a pretty solid knowledge of electronics. I've started reading a basic electronics book and one of the things I've come across is a discussion of RMS/Peak, not even related to music but I realize now where the term on the button on the compressor/limiter comes from. It's my understanding that Ray Kurzweil, whose name appears on gear owned by practically every band in America isn't even a musician. |
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