<p>Hi SoCalMom, my son is currently a junior and is also interested in becoming a Sound/Audio Engineer. He is looking at UMiami as well as a few other schools that we have had great pains to find. Thanks for the links above. We had been working with the AES Society’s Education page but I see that more links need to be checked out…oh boy…</p>
<p>We are also in SoCal, and I was wondering if your son also received any financial incentive to attend UMiami?</p>
<p>My son has been doing sound mixing for about 4 years now at church. All of his experience has been live, not recorded. His experience is on a state of the art board, Yamaha brand, (the local recording studio that professionals use is a slightly smaller board, same version/series as the one at church). We are in the process of seeing if we can somehow get into that professional studio for more experience this summer, internship or gopher…</p>
<p>I’m not sure about that audition…my son has played piano, formal lessons for a few years, currently plays guitar (rock style and praise and worship style) which he taught himself, and has sung in a school play, but has had no formal instruction. I feel like piano is his best shot, but at the moment we only have an electronic keyboard at home. When he was a young child, he played recorder in band. The instructor urged us to get him into piano because he is blessed with perfect pitch and although he plays piano he doesn’t give lessons. We were given a piano for a few years and he took lessons then. We are in the same boat as the student above, we do not have funds to invest in a bunch of lessons on any instrument. He is enrolling in a piano lab class at school next year and I have heard wonderful things about the instructor. I hope they are true because that should help my son. So what advice would you have for my son? And what part of that audition was scariest for you all? (We will find a way to have him audition in FL.)</p>