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To the person that said you can learn the equivalent to what they teach us on YouTube… Not sure you could learn to use an SSL 6000 G+ on YouTube. Nor an SSL AWS 900, Neve VR Legend, Neve Genesys, Tascam DM3200, Yamaha O2R96, TLA VTC 32 + all sorts of other consoles & outboard gear I haven’t yet used. How about having access to all this equipment and more 24/7? If you have a minute, head on over to SAE London’s site, and peek a look at some of the studio spaces. I just can’t understand why anybody would go and flame something they haven’t even experienced. It’s beyond me. Have you sat in a SAE classroom and learned about Helmholtz Resonators, or how to work out what +10dBu is in dBV? No, i thought not. You cannot go around criticising what you have no idea about.

“As a previous lecturer at 1 of the 50+ SAE’s, you’r(e) now telling me that I didn’t care about my students and that I didn’t make every effort to turn them into great engineers/producers?! You’ve got some nerve buddy. I’ve never met a past student that doesn’t have the greatest respect for me and what I taught them.
Apologies for this comment, but you’re a fool with a chip on your shoulder.”

Well said sir. No need to apologise.

CAN ANYONE HELP ME SUGGEST GOING FOR 2 YRS COURSE OF AUDIO ENGINEERING IN
(SAE INSTITUTE OR POINT BLANK LONDON)

As a previous lecturer at 1 of the 50+ SAE’s, you’r(e) now telling me that I didn’t care about my students and that I didn’t make every effort to turn them into great engineers/producers?! You’ve got some nerve buddy. I’ve never met a past student that doesn’t have the greatest respect for me and what I taught them.

Apologies for this comment, but you’re a fool with a chip on your shoulder.

If you have a degree/diploma/certificate, you might get a job or internship at a Audio production organisation for starters.

If you are incompetent …then you’r degree is not going to save you’r job! Does not matter which college you went to….right ?

On the other hand if you are a musician and learn Sound engineering thru you’r own hard work, ie for eg make and mix a track,as a part of you’r Resume / Bio-Data and show that to a studio etc – you would have shown exactly what you are capable of and you’r own initiative towards work.

That also, could get you an internship…and then you could do special courses for live sound or in protools or logic or broadcast etc…as you intern along side

Point being if you are competent then you’ll get a job,
coz all the guyz from SAE would have got kicked out eventually and people will be looking for competent people…!!lol haha

If you’r incompetent then no one cares what certificate you have.

My other point is that SAE’s game is to complicate things, to make the course seem really tough and long, so that they can charge more for the longer course.
It’s like talking to an elder, in the hope of finding an answer…but when the elder realises, that if he gave you the answer you would stop visiting him, he realises that talking “around” the answer is the next best thing….lol ha

It’s…this “hope” that you have to be careful of!!

Don’t go to SAE with hope, go there with questions….u see what i’m trying to point out here…??

And so… SAE does not care if you’r spirit is crushed due to incompetent teachers and unnecessary DATA (course material) they just want you to keep trying….and sit in for the next exam and pay some more money…to them.

If you require a certificate, so you have an excuse to intern, do a short course from wherever you feel like, you’ll have a certificate to take for the interview…beyond that it will be you’r motivation and ability…

Before one spends money on a degree/diploma course, i would suggest you buy a small, budget mixer, a budget mic and some low o/p monitor speakers…(eg jbl control 1 or similar)
Sit at home, rec you’r voice and also learn how to route audio sources(media player,mic,keyboard etc).
Along with this do an online course.

This way you will save on rent / travel / food / expences / bank loan !

Even at SAE they say “Read The Manual” , then if you have to read the manual…do you need to pay someone(SAE) to tell you that ?

I’m telling you for free “Read The Manual” !

Open the software, switch off the mobile, open a red wine , record something….read the manual.
Start with Sound Forge (two track editor)
then go multitrack editor (nuendeo /protools / logic)
Tweak you’r voice in the audio software’s processing section..
Find a friend who plays the guitar or an aunt who sings (after a cpl of drinks ofcourse!!)
Have fun, get online and look at all the links possible for , say “Equalisation” or “how to solder an XLR” n so on…
Learn things , share gear or it’s cost, so you may distribute costs and learning

Trust me when i say this, if you’r competent no one or nothing will be able to stop you….
So, as a friend and a well wisher i only mean to say , invest in you’rself first-learn one aspect of audio well (live/studio/production/broadcast)
Research the net and grow…when you can’t grow by you’r own efforts anymore then go do a degree or diploma.
This is a guideline- especially for those people who don’t have college money but the passion does not let them rest either :-)

@ollard: speak to the SAE students once they are outside the premises,post office hours, having a break…SAE is just another corporation, an ethicless, spineless entity playing on peoples hopes and dreams.

HOW MANY PEOPLE HERE ARE ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS and LOOKING FOR AN ONLINE ALTERNATIVE THAT WILL SAVE THEM MONEY AND EDUCATE THEM WELL ?

Take the CURRICULUM of any of their Courses and use the list of topics as searches on google ;-)