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Old January 3rd, 2009, 07:54 AM
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Default Re: Shopping for Sound Schools

If you want to get really deep into sound, look carefully and hard. There are lots of schools have sound concentrations involved in their tech theatre programs, but hardly provide enough of a basis to end up running audio for rock 'n roll gigs until you've racked up lots of experience post-college.

Have you looked into SAE at all? It's a very focused program that does not last 4 years, but does provide a Bachelor's degree, and has access to some really nice studios for practicing in. Unfortunately, I have yet to stumble across anyone who has gone through their program
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However, Full Sail has tons of really awesome equipment, but it's almost a useless program because most of the students who leave there will never see that kind of equipment ever again in the field. The students at Full Sail have seemed to give it very high marks. The school does have a pretty bad reputation of people who graduated with their thumbs up their butts. From what I've heard, it's a good program, but YOU have to be the one to take something out of it. You can get involved as little as you like, or as much as you like, but it's hardly guaranteed you'll be prevented from graduating if at the end of the program you haven't learned what you needed to for becoming a good audio engineer. There's a couple other threads on Full Sail that you may want to check out, but just tread lightly as you will have to defend your reputation after-the-fact because having Full Sail on your resume tends to be anything but a selling point.
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I think part of the question you need to look at, is how much you want to do as an sound technician. Are you going to focus on theatre-related stuff, or would you like to end up doing the huge rock concerts? Which program you partake in will probably guide you towards one or the other, so it's best to make a conscious decision ahead of time.
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