The Los Angeles Recording School has a recording engineering program with music production as an area of concentration. Students work in real recording studios with industry standard equipment. Faculty are professional recording engineers and class sizes are small so students have plenty of time with their professors as well as hands-on experience with recording equipment. Courses such as Advanced Digital Audio will sharpen digital audio workstation technique and theory. The Advanced Recording class teaches theory and the operation of large format audio consoles and digital audio control surfaces. The Career Development department gives students help with business communication skills in the music production industry according to the school's website. This includes business communication etiquette, cover letter and resume writing, interview techniques and networking strategies.
The Los Angeles Recording School
6690 Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood, California 90028
888-688-5277
recordingcareer.com
The Recording Connection Audio Institute offers a music production program based on the idea that music producers must understand music, music theory, the songwriting process (arranging, scoring, directing, conducting), the recording process and be able to successfully manage artists and artistic direction. Classrooms are real recording studios and courses include Introduction to Sound and Hearing, Digital Audio Basics, Introduction to Microphones, Signal Flow Basics, Introduction To The Console Parts I and II, Audio Processing Plug-ins, Studio Designs, Recording and Mixing Lab among others. Over 72 percent of graduates go on to careers in the music industry and the Institute aims to help with job placement, although, they emphasize that the music industry is a hard one to break into.
The Recording Connection Audio Institute
6253 Hollywood Blvd Suite 302
Los Angeles, California 90028
800-755-7597
recordingconnection.com
The Berklee College of Music's Music Production and Engineering Department includes 10 recording studios supplied with professional level equipment as well as visiting artists clinics, faculty demonstrations and nearly 10,000 hours of hands on student projects. The department also coordinates internship programs and helps with job placement. Courses include Introduction to Music Production and Engineering, Audio Technology I, Critical Listening Lab, Mix Techniques Lab, The Business of Music Production, Music Production for Records, Vocal Production, Masters Engineering Lab, Control Surface Mixing Techniques, Sound Reinforcement Systems and Live Concert Recording and Mixing Techniques among others. Some professors of music production at Berklee have worked with artists including Mary J. Blige, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Destiny's Child.
Berklee College of Music: Music Production
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215 USA
617- 266-1400
berklee.edu