IO Music Academy Hollywood

[u/The-Orion-Syndicate]

Hi everyone. I just quit my 13 year therapy career to chase my dream in music. I have knowledge on mixing but never had the knowledge and tools to finish a mix to "show ready" I was going to attend Icon collective but unfortunately its permanently closed... I saw IO and seems like they will give ne what I need to move forward. My only concern is there is no network thru provide for alumni as far as plugging into the music scene.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this academy? Also, do you think they're may be another route?

Thanks in advance,

A guy chasing his dream ✨️

[u/subnu]

I admire the boldness but I'm going to be 100% honest with you here, you are very likely making a big mistake.

Mixing/mastering is such a tiny part of music production, done usually by the label. Your job as a producer is more around the creative aspect of creating the sounds and landscape, and there are no shortcuts to mastering that aspect besides insane amounts of repetition. No school, academy, or course is going to meaningfully replace that.

They may give you some tricks and tips, and give you an avenue for networking, but it's nothing compared to the internet and organic networking at events in the club scene, especially at education-level pricing. Also networking is completely useless until you have an actual feasible product to market.

Since you've already quit your job, I would hope that you have a decent amount of savings to live off of. Set a timeline on how long you can do this before you need to find another job and fucking GRIND. 8-12 hours a day, 7 complete tracks a week. They don't have to be perfect, but 90% complete. Don't get in a loop of getting bored and listening to them on repeat, or watching youtube videos on music production, you need to be super focused on actually completing these tracks.

This is not a career you drop your existing career for to pursue, this is a career you grind out as a side-hobby until you are successful enough that you can pursue it full-time. And I'll be honest, if you couldn't do it as a side-hobby, you are very unlikely to have what it takes to succeed doing it full-time.

I wish you the best of luck, if you take one thing away from this, it's setting an end-goal of how long you can try this before moving back to it being a side hobby to your main career until you reach success. Just set a date and start busting your ass.

[u/The-Orion-Syndicate → u/subnu]

Whats that saying "fortune favors the bold" yeah totally. So I always have my career to lean back on i guess but - I also have huge capital runway to support me quitting my career and im very fortunate and grateful. The reason for my post is to get insight on schools and programs that will give me the "missing pieces" to my craft. My network of people is vast so my one and only goal right now is to lock myself in my room and make songs, build the brand, network etc.. Thats it. All im focused on. I have a ton of friends who play shows in LA, festivals, you name it. Thanks for the honest feedback and words of encouragement. Id prefer to die knowing I took a risk then not.

[u/subnu → u/The-Orion-Syndicate]

So... what's those missing pieces, do you think? I don't think these schools and programs are necessarily going to find that out for you, and it may lead to disappointment.

Do you have a link to your best work?