recording school advice

[Just_another_alias]

looking for advice/recommendations on recording schools in los angeles, for someone interested in sound production/mixing/editing.

thanks in advance.

[emtgreg]

if you aren't going to usc, i have heard good things about

http://www.recordingcareer.com/

however, my knowledge of such things are limited...

[anonimouse]

looking for advice/recommendations on recording schools in los angeles, for someone interested in sound production/mixing/editing.

thanks in advance.

you may want to ask on the harmony central forums. but if you do keep in mind some of the people on there have good taste in music, while other people on there are guitar center wanker types who will just tell you to go to the musicians institute

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/index.php

[Just_another_alias]

thanks guys

any others?

[SupaSandeep]

I went to LARS (then called LARW)and it was ok, but definately not worth the $12,000 tuition, i graduated with 50 people and by the time we were done only 5 of us had jobs, including me... it was a job that paid $150 for a 20 hr work week, but i usually wound up working about 40-50, to top it off, the school was trying to say that was a GOOD situation.

You won't neccesarily learn much either, you can if book the labs, but what you learn is pretty irrelevant, I spent most of my time learning a buncha difft mixing boards (neve, SSL, sony oxford) all of which I never touched after graduating. Also they have to make it really easy to pass otherwise the idiots will flunk out and the school won't get their tuition money.

Also keep in mind most people don't hire engineers anymore, things are getting easier to do at home and most recording budgets dont have much room for excess stuff like engineers.

After LARW i went to Musician's Institute for their Music Business Program, that was really good I thought, and while I was there I got to check out the recording program there and I like it better, nicer professors, bigger campus, and (at the time) part of your tuition covered the cost of a mac laptop and a small protools rig, so after finishing you at least have something you can record on.

My overall suggestion is not to, I learned some stuff from recording school, but not $12,000 worth, there are sooo many tutorials out now that teach you what you need to know and it's a wiser choice to study the specific topics you're actually going to get into (ie learnin SSL boards when you plan on being a Protools editor)

Feel free to pm or email me about this stuff, after being $18,000 in debt, and at best getting a $14/hr job I really feel bad for people who are looking into getting into this stuff, the schools really sell u on some BS and in reality there's little to no work for engineers, also the economy is fucked up right now so it's important to have a solid job to fall back on.. after all that schooling/debt I wound up going back to school for Computer Info Systems, it was pretty much free (after financial aid), there's more of a job market, and I actually learn recording software a lot easier