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anonymous 26 July 2006

Well for starters, I'm new here, my name is Dustin, hello all.
I recently met with the owner of a studio in Louisville, Ky and told him I was interested in an internship at his studio. We began talking, and I told him about a few classes I was taking at school for Music Technology. I told him the intro class dealt with basic mic placement, etc. And he told me that just like everything in life, you had to have a good foundation.
He later kind of quizzed me on things like signal chains, frequencies of diffrent instruments, voices, diffrences between certain mic's, etc... and I was of course speechless. I had none of the answers.
So I was wondering if you all could offer me any help. I really want this internship, and I really want to impress the owner, and show him that I really will do the homework, and figure things out.
Are there any books, and or articles that you all could offer to me so that I can begin to learn these things, to show him that I am capable of learning these things, and that this really is my passion?
Thank you all for any advice that you can offer
Dustin

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MadTiger3000 Wed, 07/26/2006 - 16:31

dustinw155 wrote: Well for starters, I'm new here, my name is Dustin, hello all.
I recently met with the owner of a studio in Louisville, Ky and told him I was interested in an internship at his studio. We began talking, and I told him about a few classes I was taking at school for Music Technology. I told him the intro class dealt with basic mic placement, etc. And he told me that just like everything in life, you had to have a good foundation.
He later kind of quizzed me on things like signal chains, frequencies of diffrent instruments, voices, diffrences between certain mic's, etc... and I was of course speechless. I had none of the answers.
So I was wondering if you all could offer me any help. I really want this internship, and I really want to impress the owner, and show him that I really will do the homework, and figure things out.
Are there any books, and or articles that you all could offer to me so that I can begin to learn these things, to show him that I am capable of learning these things, and that this really is my passion?
Thank you all for any advice that you can offer
Dustin

Search mic placement, mic technique, mic pattern, etc. on this forum's search engine and on Google.

You will have tons of information. Print it out if can afford to, or at least have it on your computer.

RemyRAD Wed, 07/26/2006 - 17:27

Look for Howard M. Tremane's Audiocyclopedia. It old but it's a wonderful plethora of knowledge that is still pertinent today. If you can memorize just 1/5 of that book, I think you'll impress the studio owner? You might also want to learn how to properly coil microphone cables?

Everything old is new again
Ms. Remy Ann David

natural Fri, 07/28/2006 - 21:19

1-Go to your instructor at the Music Tech school.
2- Ask if they have an internship setup at various local studios. (many do)
3- Ask if he will contact the studio you're interested in to see if they will take on an intern program with your school.
4- Always show up 15 min early, and stay 15 min later.
5- enjoy your new career

anonymous Sat, 07/29/2006 - 07:42

Thanks Natural, I will definetly do all of those.
And thank you to everyone who replied....and yes I did do a google search for "frequency ranges of musical instruments"...and I found alot. Thanks by the way MdMax...I somehow, in my excitement forgot to even look for something as simple as that.

I compiled a couple of useful links, just in case there might be someone out there like me who needs to learn some more technical stuff that this business has to offer.

This site has alot of the stuff I was looking for.
http://www.listenhear.co.uk/general_acoustics.htm

along with this one
http://www.tnt-audio.com/topics/frequency_e.html

This is a nice PDF file for eq'ing different instruments
http://www.modcam.com/emusic/Frequency_ranges.pdf

Thank you all, and if anyone else has any links they would like to contribute, that would be excellent. 8)

MadTiger3000 Sat, 07/29/2006 - 08:43

dustinw155 wrote: Thanks Natural, I will definetly do all of those.
And thank you to everyone who replied....and yes I did do a google search for "frequency ranges of musical instruments"...and I found alot. Thanks by the way MdMax...I somehow, in my excitement forgot to even look for something as simple as that.

I compiled a couple of useful links, just in case there might be someone out there like me who needs to learn some more technical stuff that this business has to offer.

This site has alot of the stuff I was looking for.
http://www.listenhear.co.uk/general_acoustics.htm

along with this one
http://www.tnt-audio.com/topics/frequency_e.html

This is a nice PDF file for eq'ing different instruments
http://www.modcam.com/emusic/Frequency_ranges.pdf

Thank you all, and if anyone else has any links they would like to contribute, that would be excellent. 8)

Nice links. Good reference/starting point.

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