Week 12 Forum - Final Form....ever
I didn't come to this forum because I had to finish a presentation for another subject. But, I know what it was about and it was the typical form. Babbling and blather and blah blah blah blah blah....etc
From speaking to other students I know some of the forum touched on what students thought of the degree. If this degree taught me anything it is this:
If you want to study something that will give you the piece of paper that people will think highly of but will be completely useless in the actual work force, go to university.
If you want to study something that will give you the piece of paper that people don't regard highly but will actually teach you useful skills relevant to the work force, go to any vocational training institution.
Unless you want to be a doctor, engineer, lawer or businessman, university is pretty much useless. It just tries to make you an intellect.
[1] Stephen Whittington, "Music Technology Forum: Semester 2 - Week 12 – Babble". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 6th November 2008
Sunday, November 09, 2008
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Unless you want to be a doctor, engineer, lawer or businessman, university is pretty much useless.
I had this dispute last semester about my AA project. I couldn't understand for the life of me how someone who submits a recording with obvious distortion, over compression, phase issues, separation issues, muddiness in the mix, etc can can get a much higher mark than my mix did after two years of a Diploma and one year in the field as a live engineer. I know that time ran out and I left the bass and a guitar a little too loud but the reason he got a better mark? The write up. The recording itself has nothing to do with how we are marked as far as I can tell. As long as you can justify your 'mistakes' as artistic or whatever and your writeup is nice and academic, then its distinctions all the way. It's disappointing that the Uni is letting people go that obviously can't record for shit, but as long as people can do a good write up explaining so, it seems they are fine with it. It is scary that some of these people want to teach this stuff. It is also scary that some of these people will have a superiority complex and go around with an attitude such as 'Look at me. I have a Degree so therefore i must be an expert in recording and must therefore make stunningly sounding albums.' WRONG!
It just tries to make you an intellect.
Well it didn't work with me. lol.
I said it TRIES. It hasn't work with me either! hahaha
I agree with you on many levels. Being a good sound engineer requires real world experience which university doesn't offer. In the future I want to do further certification courses on ProTools, Logic and Waves and I will make sure I don't go to a university for this. I'd take a training institution any day. SAE is still the best place to learn audio engineering in my opinion.
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