I am having more of an input now in the curriculum
than we had before. Before the program was awesome. The program ran
perfectly, it ram really good. It was gradient scale for when the
students come in and when they leave here they are engineers. Before I
let them go they are engineers. Let me just put it that way. But the
curriculum’s getting better because technology is constantly changing.
In our business technology is always changing backwards. If that makes
any sense. We are always trying to find the coolest, oldest, bc gear
that still works and use that in our business. We still want to move
forward with Digital and with Pro Tools and Digital performer and all
these kind of programs that we use in our business. It’s very cool. We
have to move forward and move backwards at the same time. And teaching
these students and showing these students how all that happens and how
all that works. Its great when we move things around and we sorter and
we move wires, always have students involved in these kinds of things
because this is the real world. This is what happens.
Donny Baker - Recording Connection Mentor
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When I get back to the room I hear this kind of Brian and
its Ike Donovan the drummer for Dwight Yokham and he has got all his
hair cut off. He is not punk anymore he is the country western guy and
so I was at the right place at the right time and this is just when
Dwight Yokham was unknown and I cut his first record Guitars, Cadillacs
etc.
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One of the great things that we offer here with our
teachers is that they are actually working in the industry. So they
will be working on a film or a recording project and they can take the
student under their wing and show them what they are doing for a famous
artist or for a movie production. And our teachers are very, very well
connected within the industry. So students get to see some big name
artist come in and they get to rub elbows with people in the industry
and make friends and important contacts that they are going to go out
and build relationships with once they graduate from Recording
Connection course.
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I saw the Recording Connection ad in one of the
local newspapers or magazines or something. It’s been awhile, I forget
and I called up the number and I thought the whole system was actually
kind of iffy or sketchy because it was just a big tag of phone calls
and answering machines and whatever but let me tell you its real. As
soon as you walk into the studio for your meeting with an actual
engineer or studio owner you know that it is real and you know that
it’s going to work for you.
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Part
of it is just getting the knowledge and its just doing it one on one,
and instead of having to wait for other people to finish and like you
are on a certain time, its like you need to do it with this one person
and they are very knowledgeable and it just seems like its more likely
someone to learn quicker that way rather than just waiting for 13, 14
other people that go through the same thing. So that’s one of the
reasons why I thought this was like legitimate for me was just because
it was one on one. I figured I could get real concrete details on
everything, ins and outs of the business, just one on one with somebody
and it worked out really well.
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