Has anyone taken a Music Mixing Class?

I went to a music production school 8 years ago.  It was an amazing experience.   People can dis school all they want.  Dis education all they want.  I've got zero regrets!

Linear Phase


I went to a music production school 8 years ago.  It was an amazing experience.   People can dis school all they want.  Dis education all they want.  I've got zero regrets!

University of Miami?




:-)

Just wondering... and a sincere question.

I have many friends who went thru UM when it was ground zero for digi music tech and learned the right stuff at the right time.

I have other friends that went to the new style specialty schools and they still don't know if they learned anything.

The school I went to was more traditional music performance and very lite on electro tech. I took the tech courses but was in fact a visual art major so I got what I could from the program and for me a lot of it had to do with simply working gigs with great musicians.


The people I met from UM seemed to be on the vanguard of Pro Tools and DAW... I always wondered just how cool it would have been to be there at that era.

I imagine London would have been exciting.


all the best,
mike
  

I did once a while back. There is an outfit in Colorado named Wind Over the Earth that sells high-end studio gear and teaches production techniques for Cubase and ProTools. I paid to bring in my own work and have them load it up and go over how to mix it. We also did about an hour using some tracks from Queen's "Somebody to Love."

It was hands-on with guidance on SUPERIOR monitors. It made it easy to hear what we were doing. I ended up going home, buying a bunch of room treatment and new monitors. My mixes got better from all of the above. The useful part was to see how to build up a mix from scratch, layering, EQing and panning. 

It wasn't too expensive, but it was worth it.

Nearest I ever got was doing Brian Lee White's mixing masterclass on Lynda.com. 

It wasn't taking a class of course, but as far as video tutorials go these were the best I've seen. He's an excellent teacher. 

It struck me recently that the closest I come to regretting something in my life is that I didn't have/take that opportunity.

Maybe because these days, every one in my entourage is in the business, and have been all their life. But back where I came from, back in the days, there was no notion of all the various options. 

The music industry was made to be seen as black or white - either you were a starving artist, either you were one of the few exceptionally lucky people enough to hit the big time. 

I never even knew there were music productions schools until I moved to Montreal in my early 20's. That's also when I started meeting session musicians, people playing the club circuit, others writing jingles and such, and a few guys working for Cirque. 

Back home, no one told you that you had other options for a musical career besides teaching music - something which I soon found wasn't for me.

These days in particular, I regularly spend over 12 hours a day reading, practicing, trying to find every little bit of information I can. I go to bed for a few hours only to find myself dreaming that I'm eq'ing stuff all night. Man, I wish I had had a formal training at some point.

We're going home for a few days later this week and the one thing I'm really looking forward to is spending some time in the studio w/ my brother in law to watch him work and maybe learn a few tricks. That and sleeping.