Hello. I wish to draw on the knowledge in all of your heads. That is why I am here. Basically, I have no equipment and limited knowledge.

This particular question is directed mainly towards the veterans:

What equipment would you purchase if you had nothing but 3 or 4 thousand to spend on a home studio? (Please let your biased opinions and favorites come out on your posts.)

The instruments that I will record the most are: Electric and Acoustic Guitar, acoustic drums, bass, keyboards/piano, violin, and occasionally vocals.


Apologies if you have seen this type of post before. I did a topic search and was unsatisfied with what I found.

This particular question is for schooled, professional composers, sound engineers, performance majors, etc:

Where did you go to school for your job and how are you using your degree?

If you took the time to read and reply, Thank you much!

OK this sounds like a homework assignment, am I wrong?

Secondly I would suggest you ask one question per thread, asking two questions in the same post usually fragments the answer and often means people do not reply.
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Recording Studio Suntans

Yeah, I guess that's true.


I'll just figure everything out for myself then.

I studied Audio Engineering at Brisbane's School of Audio Engineering (FYI - SAE is a pretty big worldwide chain of schools) and what I learnt was that its more useful to spend that $15000 on making your own studio and getting stuff like ProTools, a few mics and a good analogue and digital mixer (behringer is value for money for analogue and the yamaha o1v is good and cheap for digital) then you'll come away with more knowledge by the end of it.

you sound like you dont know alot of stuff about sound engineering which leads me to the question why are you building a studio? the money is better spent on a course to learn about sound engineering rather than spending lots of money that you wont know how to use.

but audio engineering is an art-form (so i was told). you can't study to be an artist. that comes from experimentation and figuring out what's right for you. i guess if you wanna make money and do things the boring way, you might as well go and study. if you want to develop your own style and personality then you've gotta do the hard yards on your own.

from all the footwork i've done for getting employment for myself and a few friends, its all about the name you've developed for yourself anyway and not what you know.

oh and i'll admit i don't know a thing about room acoustics. my $15k course taught me sweet f*** all in that.

Areola wrote:

oh and i'll admit i don't know a thing about room acoustics. my $15k course taught me sweet f*** all in that.

Well I’m sorry to hear that.

However, not wanting to defend your specific school as I don’t know the staff etc personally, BUT I wish to defend education in general.

The thing is about higher education (which I believe is what you spent money on) is that it is about developing life-long study skills, it is about preparing your mind and attitude to embrace self-direction.

Training and education is different, there is or SHOULD be a fundamental difference in how each course is structured and operated depending on training or education.

Training is being shown how to do something
Education is providing a means for YOU to obtain skills in order to find out for yourself.

It's old syaing of "give a man a fish he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish he will eat for life."

Now I’m aware many institutions are around which do one or the other, or even worse say they do one and in fact do the other. The main point though is that once YOU realise that audio engineering is fundamentally about YOU discovering and YOU learning and YOU being responsible for your own career and knowledge the sooner you will achieve.

I feel passionately about this, as I have heard this type of story before, but I’m guessing that you were just not “turned-on” enough to start embracing learning as a way of life.

At this point try to look at a way of getting something positive from your experience, I’m sure there is some wonderful stuff that happened to be taken forward….

No?
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Recording Studio Suntans

^ well put, don't get me wrong i do believe that learning by yourself is a big factor but its a slow impractical one, i did a music technology A level and im now doing a HND in sound engineering and i have to say i have learn about 95% of the stuff i know from the courses and the other 5% is from playing around at home with software and hardware but that 5% is only the because i used my previous knowledge from the 95% to make it.

back to the point, if you dont want to fork out for a course the best way of learning would be to get one item at a time and build up your setup along with your knowledge.

Lindstrom wrote:

^ well put, don't get me wrong i do believe that learning by yourself is a big factor but its a slow impractical one, i did a music technology A level and im now doing a HND in sound engineering and i have to say i have learn about 95% of the stuff i know from the courses and the other 5% is from playing around at home with software and hardware but that 5% is only the because i used my previous knowledge from the 95% to make it. back to the point, if you dont want to fork out for a course the best way of learning would be to get one item at a time and build up your setup along with your knowledge.

And that HND is that in Cornwall at TC by any chance?
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Recording Studio Suntans

it is indeed

Ah, I was the guy who wrote that course a fair few years ago.


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Recording Studio Suntans

cool, what to you mean by wrote? do you mean the modules and assignments? dya you know Saxton?

Lindstrom wrote:

cool, what to you mean by wrote? do you mean the modules and assignments? dya you know Saxton?

Yes I designed and wrote the course and the modules, got the course up and running before moving on.

Yes I know John, tell him you met Chris Hambly.


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Recording Studio Suntans

haha cool man, so what do you do now?