I am interested in attending a school to learn the art of recording. But before I commit to this I would like to know what to expect as far as salary goes. If someone could tell me starting salaries, salaries after a few years, etc. Also, could anyone recommend a good school? Money and location is not an issue here. Thanks so much.

I'm an old guy, but my 26-yr-old son plans to attend an "audio engineering" school in New York City. The two he's considering are Institute for Audo Research and the SAE Institute.

He's a college grad and a performing musician. He's also had some recording experience.

Opinionsabout which school provides the better training in this field?

TIA.

I'm trying to choose a recording school to go to in the next few months but I live in India so I have nothing much to go by except for the websites of the schools. I want to go to a good school with great equipment, faculty, internship and placements. Cost is not really the factor, cause I can try for financial aid (I'm a U.S. citizen).

Ok. as many of you have learned.. my primary function is mastering.

Now through this long and eventful career. I have done just about all of it. FOH, Voice production/punches, huge live mixes (75+channels), huge studio mixes (90+channels)...worked in the 70's/80's/90's...00's too.

Now...here is the point:

I've been doing sound for many years now, most of my knowledge is from experience. Advanced, hands on training classes for working audio professionals (1 - 3 day intensive, topic driven) would be very intresting to me, and I'm sure others as well. However I don't want or need to spend a year at Full Sail or SAE. Anything like that out there?
Thanks for any responses.

way back in high school my brother used to get Stereo Review, which was my little window/intro into the world of hifi (that and his Nikko amp and smaller Advent loudspeakers)...but i am WAY out of touch with the state of home audio gear these days (still using the old mid-70's Nikko, fer chrissakes).