There is so much to this, and you may wonder how it works into the discussion of audio production schools. Well, for one, I'm calling them 'audio' production schools, and not 'music' production schools as previously alluded to. Not that the former was invalid. It fits to a degree. But audio is so much more than just music. You could use what you learn on talk radio. You could use what you learn in a scenario where your role is not musical, but purely audio. It will always involve audio, and not always music. These aren't music lessons, they will be lessons on audio primarily. What change means is multi-faceted. The schools have changed significantly, as the need for audio people has changed in the market. As stated before, some feel the quality of audio and music has changed, for the worse. That's something for another debate, but being as objective as I can, I can say many would agree, there's a lot of bad-sounding music out there. For many reasons, but let's focus on audio. You can find plenty that sounds good, some that may sound better than ever, but it seems that number may be shrinking. There are many possibilities as to why. One the MP3 'revolution' and folks happy with low bit-rate sound. Many throw their hands in the air and say 'why bother' when it's streamed at 128 kbps or worse. And let's face it, My Space is possibly the most popular place for such streaming now, and their streaming is the worst. Yeah, I'm opinionating here, but those in favor (of My Space quality) say "I". They've revised their players, wonderful. They still stream at what sounds like an average of 64 kbps or worse VBR. Man, it can be just painful to listen to. I won't even put my music on their page on their player anymore. It's that bad. But for many, 'that's entertainment'. I mean that. They had a big sweep some time back to get rid of a variety of folks putting up 'music only' player pages. I mean signing up as musicians. Some even as THE musicians they are fans of. You could go to the music area and find the most played artists, and find multiple 'Mariah' pages. What? Well, the big moral of that story is those 'fans' were happy with those players. It wasn't bad enough on the iPOD at 128 kbps in tiny, bass-less earplugs, they had to have it stream low quality on tiny computer speakers now! So with that new 'view' of music (and I do mean view, as it's evolved to be more and more visual vs. audio, but that's a whole different subject) you start to wonder. Why pay extra for that preamp, when a sound-card might be fine. Why buy even a $200 mic when a much maligned 'Radio Shack' microphone can be sufficient. After all, are they going to notice the difference over such a format? Well, as of today many may think that. But then, when a new Beatles CD is released ("Smile") and Brian Wilson finishes is legendary "Smile" CD and they burn up the charts? What does that tell you? It's not just 'old fans' buying it. I'm constantly surprised by the younger folks I'm noticing who actually CARE. Who listen to that in preference to the trends. Who like, and demand good sound. Music has proven one thing above all else, change, but more importantly, cyclic change. What's good today can be bad tomorrow, and vise versa. So audio is becoming important. The 'big studio' slow down is starting to 'slow down'. Folks that are getting sick of having to be the 'knob twiddler' who'd rather just play are seeking out to just 'play'. Play their instrument, sing, arrange the song, and of course write. But the other stuff, being stuck in front of a computer screen endlessly, that's SO left brained. The left of center folks are more 'right brained' maybe. They want to make music, not a move a bunch of squiggles around for negligible changes (that eventually add up to something). They want to just pick a different chord. Play it in a different key. Change the temp by playing faster, not clicking on a tiny little box with numbers that depict the BPM. This change is real, and it's actually realization by them also.
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