<p>I see a lot of people saying if they were to choose to major in music technology/production. They would double major with EE or CS what are the benefits of choosing to do so. How much does it benefit because I'm finishing my last to semester at my local community college then hopefully transferring to a college for music production and ive been thinking pf dbl majoring in either EE,CS, or something with business. I just want to know the benefits of doing EE or CS </p>
<p>The benefits of doing EE include being able to garner a higher salary than straight recording production and having the opportunity to expand into areas such as acoustical design etc. (eg. Bose recruits the ENG students in my son’s music production program.) So you have a wider range of employability with prospects for a higher billable hour and a deeper more integrated range of experience.</p>
<p>The benefit with CS would be similar but in a different discipline. For example, with CS, you’d be a great candidate for employment as a sound/music director/producer/manager at a videogame company. You’d be more employable with a digital agency. You’d be deeply skilled enough to work at music software production and programming companies. You’d be well equipped to engineer/program complicated interactive live performing spaces. Etc. You get the idea.
Hope that helps.</p>
<p>PS - Game industry pundits say finding a good music composer/producer who also knows C++ is the holy grail of recruiting. Just so you know.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the reply because Ive been going back and fourth trying to figure out what im going to do and this helped alot. For Bose are you referring to the sound system company or something different? So EE will be more wiring based and Cd would be programming and such?</p>
<p>Yes, the sound system co. In sound system design the need folks with great ear and hearing range, experience in psychoacoustics, ee, physics of sound, etc etc. So it,s not JUST wiring per se, but a comprehensive set of skills that blend nicely with recording engineering, etc. Why don’t you give umich a call and ask for Jason Corey, dept head for the music tech and eng program and ask him to direct u to more complete explanations by the people directly familiar. That would help u even more I suspect. I am just a layperson ;)</p>
<p>other then EE and CS are there other major that you can combine with a music major that can make a good combination and look good in the long run looking for a job in the future</p>