I love how they imply that by hanging a blanket behind your singer and using a pop screen you'll get anything like the (lifeless, overprocessed) sound in the video. Besides having been recorded through a signal chain that's pushing 5 figures, assuming they had a preamp and converters comparable to that Neumann, parts of it have been double tracked, and all of it has at least some compression and EQ on it (on first listen I thought I heard so autotune on the high notes but now I think it's just a limiter getting pushed a little too hard - I'm on laptop speakers so it's tough to tell). It's the recording equivalent of something like this:

http://www.oobject.com/12-deceptive-comic-book-ads/

When I was in school the chair of the music department was a futurist who thought analog was dead; I got quite a bit of free equipment from him when he was modernizing the studio (someone caught wind of the "vintage 32 channel british mixed and half inch Otari 8 track with stand and remote for 0 total" deal I had going and offered them 00 for it, though).

That's not likely to do it either, you need to know the right people AND be able to back it up with actual skill AND have the right sort of personality AND not expect to actually make a living any time soon.

Or as Larry Crane said, "Simply put, buy a recording studio and don't expect to make your money back. I'm not joking."

http://tapeop.com/blog/2014/01/20/recording-career/

I totally agree, OZ, but a crappy or nonexistant portfolio won't make up for a degree from a place like this. And yeah, don't do it for the money. Do it because it's what you want to do with your life.

i reversed that sentence, you know what I meant

My buddy graduated from this place. He went through the game design program. Unfortunately, 8 years later, he works at Best Buy selling appliances and has an almost 200k student loan debt. What's sad is that he has an ungodly amount of technical talent as a graphic artist and a bottomless well of creativity AND an excellent portfolio.

Then you have Jamie Harmeyer, who I went to highschool with, who also went to Fullsail (for radio broadcasting I think?)and works for the Howard Stern show. I think he's the only success story at that school, which is sad, because he's a real prick.

Only one of them is in Connecticut.

I learned more about music in any given year of my 6 years at a used record store than I did in my entire 5 year BS program (which, thank god, I got for free).

I got my first job at a record store in high school by alphabetizing the "X's" (X Los Angeles was mixed up with X Japan, etc.) Interestingly, her voice at the beginnning almost channels Mia Zapata's, before getting whatever treatment this professor guy's talking about, making her sound more like some shit I'd never ever listen to.