Top Audio Engineering School??

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:50 pm

hey all...i go to mira costa college in north san diego county and its great!!we just got a brand-new multi-million dollar studio with 2 control rooms,a huge tracking room,and multiple iso rooms...great gear and mics,and also certify to 201 in PT.ive been there for almost 2 years and i have learned SO much...i would recommend this school to anyone.

and the 20 dollars a unit isnt bad either...when its all said and done it may have run me about 500 dollars....not bad:)

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:12 pm

Let me get this straight, you can study for like 20 dollars per unit?
Also, do they offer English? Best $20 you will ever spend.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:46 am

At that price I can't imagine they pay the teachers! Maybe it's a teach yourself school.

SPAM Joined: Dec 12, 2008 Posts: 10

I'm sorry I would be very careful before I put good money into any music recording school/program. With the state of the industry and many studios closing you are better off learning this trade by yourself. If you spend enough time on forums, reading books, and trial and error it will cost you much less and have the same effect on your career.

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:52 pm

That's always the most common response. I do think, though, that while it's incredibly important to read forums and books and have hands on experience (and ultimately MORE important), it's also helpful to have a real-life person there to clarify and teach. A school's not utterly useless, not at all.

I just want to intern. That's how I'd learn the most, I think.

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:01 pm

Has anyone graduated or from Ohio University with an Audio Production degree or currently attending the school for it? I'm about 75% sure i'm going to go there next fall but trying to be 100%. If no students or alumni, has anyone heard any pros or cons about it? Thanks

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:34 pm

So from what I gather it is a better idea to spend your time researching the topic of audio engineering rather than going in to debt for school and gear and then you can make your money doing something semi-relevant until you have enough capital to invest in to the proper gear for your desired studio. It's pretty straight forward, if that's what you want.

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:21 pm

I am in my senior year at Brigham Young Unversity in Provo Utah getting a double degree in Sound Recording Technology and Computer Science. Sorry, that was a lot of capital letters. Wink

Here the recording degree is in the school of music - and the school of music is extremely competitive. Luckily I got through auditions several years ago. Wink

I have had my studio for two years now and consistently have more work than I can handle! And I have found that having musical knowledge REALLY helps. It allows you to be so much more than an engineer - you have an informed opinion about the music and production, you can collaborate with artists/producers, and it makes you so much more valuable. And that helps you get the gigs. You can speak the language of the performers.

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:42 am

Hey hopefully you've figured out where your going for school and all! Anyway, I attend University of Marland Baltimore County, (UMBC). They have a four year bachelor program in Audio Engineering! We have 3 nice studios available 24/7 365 for recording majors!

Its not the same as cram programs like full sail, but instead offers a great way to learn all of the same skills, but have 4 years to expirement and master recording! Also, as part of UMBC's major program, you have to take instrumental lesssons, and classes just like any other music major. Honestly this is a good thing as an engineer, to have decent musical knowledge! There are better schools out there for music, (Juliard and the like), but Im quite happy with the program here, its a lot of fun too!

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:28 pm

Hey bighigg42,
Are there any masters programs at your school in audio-related fields?

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:27 pm

There is in Music Performance and Education, I don't think we have a recording masters program though =[

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:07 pm

Do masters in recording-related things exist anywhere?

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:43 pm

kheftel wrote:

Do masters in recording-related things exist anywhere?

Might be semi-relevant?

http://www.aes.org/education/courses.cfm?GeoID=1&ProgTypeID=5[/url]

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:02 am

Hey thanks, I'll check that out!

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:46 am

Hi im a rookie user here. im from italy and interested to addend an audio engineering course oversea but i am really scared and cofused about the choice of the school cause i havent direct contact with none attended one of them and online opinions are so different.
I made a search for school in us and canada i found that the most 'quoted' are

Sae (italian sae isnt good)
MI
Lars

but i found dozen of other univeristies, colleges or schools that offer a similiar course.
can someone help me?

thank u so much

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