Nimbus School of Recording & Media

*Toxic culture — you might make 4 genuine friends if you’re really lucky
*Expensive — you’re looking at ~$ 26,000 of debt after 1 year, being in Vancouver doesn’t help.
*Overcrowded — Studio time for the average student has plummeted over the past couple years, yet this is one of their main selling points. Building is small.
*Too casual — You’ll never notice the huge risk to your future quality of life while teachers and teaching assistants alike don’t know the material, don’t know how to pass on information as educators, and won’t implement improvements brought up by the student body — they’ll simply direct you to the bureaucracy that takes up the entire 2^nd floor and then you’ll be told really good reasons why nothing should change.
*You will not become a star — this school has been around for 7 years and not one alumni has made it big.
In the end this is a for-​profit-​institute and is run simply because the founders (don’t even get me started on these guys) couldn’t make money making records anymore. I could go on all day about the things I did not like. I will now say the things I did like.
I did in fact learn things about music and recording, albeit I could have learned everything they taught me for free after maybe 3 years of internet study. I met one cool person that I continue to keep in contact with.
If you want to engineer in Vancouver, volunteer in the live music scene as much as possible and break into the studio scene from there, otherwise move to a different city and figure it out there, or pay out the ass to eventually maybe work around here.