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Magpie0001 · 05-31-2003, 04:16 AM

I need a career change,
Ive worked in pooters & electronics & right now Im teaching english. I really dont like my job & have decided to change. My one love is music, I DJ, scratch, have used cubase etc etc but other than that I dont know which way up a piano goes (go figure). Id love to do a course & begin on the ground level of a studio or something, pays not a problem I can survive on minimum. Thing is I havent a clue where or how to start. Does any of youz have experience with this? Id really love some advice.
Thanks for your time.

Mael · 05-31-2003, 02:44 PM

well, a good place to start might be community college. see if any around you have any music tech. programs. i took a year off from university to go to one and get stuff out of the way, and found classes on music production and stuff like that. might be a good way to get your learn on and some experiance, and maybe even some leads on jobs.

Magpie0001 · 05-31-2003, 03:15 PM

And......... heres where it gets complicated, I live In Madrid, my spanish is conversation level. Kinda closes a few doors for me doesnt it? Id love to go study something but I dont know where to begin or even what it is I want to/should study.

zfleebin · 05-31-2003, 04:20 PM

If your looking into something like recording engineering its not that difficult to get into. The first thing you can do is get a book or two about microphones (how they work how to set em up). Then youll want to get a book on the hardware used in studios I.E. signal processors, fx processors, mixing boards, recording consoles. Beyond that you might want to get a real understanding of cubase and midi. Once you got all those down everything hangs on the ability of your ears. If you do full mixes on your tables you should be pretty knowledgeable about eq and level matching and when people hear you work theyll be able to tell. I dont think classes do much unless you get a degree but even then I have seen a bunch of my friends go the schooling route and it hasn t gotten em anywhere because when it all breaks down the studio/producing business is about your ears talent and your profiency with hardware.

Magpie0001 · 05-31-2003, 04:52 PM

Thanks zfleebin much appreciated, I think I can work with on that.

fuelmyfire · 05-31-2003, 05:31 PM

i was considering this also.

from my understanding, an arts and technology college was the most logical means of getting your "foot in the door".
get the proof of your knowledge (a diploma) and look for connections.

Atomic Pinkie · 06-01-2003, 12:13 PM

Hmm live on minimum....anything music is indeed minimum

I love the early band stories...

Yah, we had all of our belongings in storage and lived in a RV

or

yah, we all lived in our managements house

05-31-2003, 04:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
Magpie0001 Nobody Loves Me Location: Irish In Madrid	I want to work in music. I need a career change, Ive worked in pooters & electronics & right now Im teaching english. I really dont like my job & have decided to change. My one love is music, I DJ, scratch, have used cubase etc etc but other than that I dont know which way up a piano goes (go figure). Id love to do a course & begin on the ground level of a studio or something, pays not a problem I can survive on minimum. Thing is I havent a clue where or how to start. Does any of youz have experience with this? Id really love some advice. Thanks for your time. __________________ Music is my first love & It will be my last.

05-31-2003, 03:15 PM	#3 (permalink)
Magpie0001 Nobody Loves Me Location: Irish In Madrid	And......... heres where it gets complicated, I live In Madrid, my spanish is conversation level. Kinda closes a few doors for me doesnt it? Id love to go study something but I dont know where to begin or even what it is I want to/should study. __________________ Music is my first love & It will be my last.

05-31-2003, 04:52 PM	#5 (permalink)
Magpie0001 Nobody Loves Me Location: Irish In Madrid	Thanks zfleebin much appreciated, I think I can work with on that. __________________ Music is my first love & It will be my last.

06-01-2003, 12:13 PM	#7 (permalink)
Atomic Pinkie Addict Location: Chicago	Hmm live on minimum....anything music is indeed minimum I love the early band stories... Yah, we had all of our belongings in storage and lived in a RV or yah, we all lived in our managements house __________________ Where dem bitches at?

05-31-2003, 02:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
Mael Banned Location: The Hell I Created.	well, a good place to start might be community college. see if any around you have any music tech. programs. i took a year off from university to go to one and get stuff out of the way, and found classes on music production and stuff like that. might be a good way to get your learn on and some experiance, and maybe even some leads on jobs.

05-31-2003, 04:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
zfleebin Addict	If your looking into something like recording engineering its not that difficult to get into. The first thing you can do is get a book or two about microphones (how they work how to set em up). Then youll want to get a book on the hardware used in studios I.E. signal processors, fx processors, mixing boards, recording consoles. Beyond that you might want to get a real understanding of cubase and midi. Once you got all those down everything hangs on the ability of your ears. If you do full mixes on your tables you should be pretty knowledgeable about eq and level matching and when people hear you work theyll be able to tell. I dont think classes do much unless you get a degree but even then I have seen a bunch of my friends go the schooling route and it hasn t gotten em anywhere because when it all breaks down the studio/producing business is about your ears talent and your profiency with hardware.

05-31-2003, 05:31 PM	#6 (permalink)
fuelmyfire Insane	i was considering this also. from my understanding, an arts and technology college was the most logical means of getting your "foot in the door". get the proof of your knowledge (a diploma) and look for connections.