Ogg said to mseifert <-

Did you get to work on different mixing boards?

There were 2 studios, A) was the main studio and had a custom 36 track Neve console, B) was more used for foley and dialog replacement, had a 24 track console. I'm not sure the manufacturer of the one in B. I only knew the one in A was a Neve because one day I spoke to a tech who had the board torn apart because of me. With the instructor watching, I got a shock off of one of the pan nobs.. the instuctor said he saw my hair go up.. when they played back the track you could hear the snap. As the tech and instuctor said that's not possible... I get shocks off everything.. I felt sorry for the tech. Btw A) was 2 inch Digital. and B) was a 1 inch Analog studio. Both are probably full digital now.. I took that course in the 90's.

My favorite part of the course was manually editing audio tape, and digitally editing sounds/audio.
I was ok at mixing, I knew the board and xf-rack almost, blindfolded. I only took the course so I'd be better at recording my own music.

I took some time off from my usual work and drove to a college
in another town to take a recording studio course. It was a lot
of fun. But it was just a one-time thing, I had to miss a few
classes due to regular work commitments. The skills are gone
after so many decades now. Today, the popular thing are digital
boards - and those scare me.

Sorry to hear that you didn't get the chance to finish it. I can definately say that I had fun when taking the course. I know you could always get older equipment..

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There were 2 studios, A) was the main studio and had a custom 36 track Neve console, B) was more used for foley and dialog replacement, had a
24 track console. I'm not sure the manufacturer of the one in B. I
only knew the one in A was a Neve because one day I spoke to a tech who had the board torn apart because of me. With the instructor watching, I got a shock off of one of the pan nobs.. the instuctor said he saw my
hair go up.. when they played back the track you could hear the snap.
As the tech and instuctor said that's not possible... I get shocks off everything.. I felt sorry for the tech. Btw A) was 2 inch Digital. and
B) was a 1 inch Analog studio. Both are probably full digital now.. I took that course in the 90's.

I took the audio egineering course through the recording workshop in
Chilicothe Ohio. This was back in the early 80's and they had just got a Sony PCM machine. At the time I went I was running sound for a local band and
wanted to go work in a recording studio. Of course i found out if I wanted to be paid I would have to move to New York, Nashville or LA and even then it
was a long shot. I ended up working for several local bands till about 1990
and have been a electrician for the past 25 years. I did enjoy my time at the Recording Workshop graduating in the top 2 of my class ad be offered a teaching job there which I had to turn down.
Jeff

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