Originally Posted by psycho_monkey ➡️

Well, kinda depends on what you want to do. Make beats and write EDM and so on? totally. Arguably those jobs were never "studio career jobs" anyway.

Most studio work isn't making beats or composition or anything like that. It's engineering, tracking artists and bands, mixing, producing someone else's music.

But you're right - those days are over. Few studios of a size that needs interns! I get asked about it all the time, and I only have a small production room and help run a v small tracking space too.



You can learn lots for free online true. You can't learn session etiquette, people management, or how to listen to comp a vocal easily. You can learn that stuff trial and error on your own, but it's harder.

To be fair - being able to write tracks on a laptop isn't going to get you a gig in a studio.




I would say don't work for free at any level.

However, if it's what you want to do and you get the chance, learning over the shoulder of someone more experienced is very very worthwhile - ideally whilst being paid to assist, but a couple of weeks sitting in if available is invaluable.

You wouldn't open a restaurant without having worked in one to know how it goes would you? I mean - I like food, I can cook a bit but I couldn't do it commercially.