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Your DETROIT, MICHIGAN RECORDING SCHOOL ALTERNATIVE
Congratulations--you've just found the most innovative Detroit Recording School option available! We're RECORDING CONNECTION, the only recording school that gets you working as an audio student apprentice inside an actual Detroit recording studio, working alongside the pros as you learn audio engineering, music producing, mixing, or live audio. Hands down, the smartest way to break into the recording industry in Detroit is to start inside a Detroit recording studio as an apprentice. We're the school that gets your foot in the door.
Don't make the mistake of spending 10-50 thousand dollars to go to a recording trade school when you can spend far less money and go to recording school in a real recording studio. Make the smart choice--get on the inside track, and get your audio education in a real-world environment. Our recording school alternative is the smartest, most cost efficient program on the market today.
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Nicknamed "The Motor City" for its automobile manufacturing, Detroit, Michigan is the largest city in the state. Perhaps best known in music circles for Motown Records (which in the 1960s produced the distinctive R&B/soul sound known the world over as simply "Motown"), Detroit has been a consistent musical influence in a variety of genres, including rock, rap, hip-hop, blues, jazz, hardcore, punk, techno and others. The list of notable bands and musicians with Detroit connections (past and present) is long and varied, and includes such names as Aretha Franklin, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Ted Nugent, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Madonna, Eminem, The White Stripes, Insane Clown Posse, Sufjan Stevens and many others.
Today, Detroit's music scene continues to be strong and active, with plenty of venues and recording studios to accommodate bands and artists. If you are considering a career in audio as a recording engineer, live audio engineer or music producer, Detroit holds plenty of opportunity for you to learn.
The RECORDING CONNECTION advantage is our mentor-apprentice approach. Rather than placing you in a sterile classroom environment, we pair you with a working industry professional who trains you one-on-one during real recording projects. We get you close to the action in ways other recording schools can't match, enabling you to make vital industry connections along the way. Over 70 percent of our students get hired in the recording industry, usually through contacts they made while working through our program. You could be next! Enroll in our Detroit Recording School today, and let us get you started on the road to your dreams.
Success Stories from Students Near Detroit, MI
Learn how to troubleshoot.
“Oh what a week this was. This was by far the most interesting week in the Recording Connection program to date, as I got to learn firsthand a crash course on troubleshooting. The studio I am working at has a bar/restaurant/radio station/stage on the first floor. At about noon a singer was to come on the radio and perform live. Well much to everyone's surprise a whole 5 piece band shows up after everyone thought it was going to be just a singer/guitar player. Well being from Canada, they didn't want to haul too much equipment over the border, so they opted to leave their keyboard behind. No problem, the studio happens to have one that they could use. So my mentor and I helped the stage hand get the keyboard set up for sound check. No sound. To make a long story short, 3 cables and 2 D.I. boxes later still no sound. We plugged it into the guitar amp using the guitar player's cable and then it started working and the fun happened. But then the outlet the bass amp was plugged into started shorting out and the whole stage lost power, and smoke starts pouring out of the amplifier. Not good. Somehow in the middle of it all the keyboard starts working. So we plugged the bass amp into a different outlet and suddenly there were no more issues. Voila, crash course in troubleshooting. None of us know what exactly solved the problem, but all we do know is it was fixed and the show went on without a hitch from there on out. Easily the most random and messed up session I've had thus far, and can foresee having in the future. It was easily the best glimpse I've gotten thus far into what can happen when working in a studio full time.”
-- Michael Zanon, Wyandotte, Michigan
Learn how the professional recording sessions are run.
“My third lesson with my mentor mainly covered the different types of microphones, their different advantages and disadvantages, as well as the polar patterns of mics as well. This lesson was pretty easy to grasp and I’m having a lot of fun being here at my mentors’ studio. My mentor is really cool and he explains things very clearly. The following day I actually sat in on my first recording session as well. A local gospel singer stopped by to record. It was a really fun experience.”
-- Nathan Zachar, Oxford, Michigan
Sit in on professional recording sessions.
"In week 4 with my mentor we covered signal flow and patch bays. We talked about the different types of patch bays, which are Open, Normal, Half-Normal and Parallel. My mentor showed me what the different configurations can do for you as far as recording and mixing. I was warned that this lesson and the next will be very tough and not as easy to understand, but the more I read and take time with the material, the more it starting to come full circle. My next session is coming up, and following my training for that week, I’ll be staying for apprenticing so I can sit in on an artist coming to record. I'm very excited and ready to take a lot from this experience."
-- Michael Dibble, Rochester, Michigan
Become inspired by your mentor.
"In the very first lesson with my mentor I met up at his studio. He first started by asking me some questions to learn a little bit more about me, as well as giving a brief introduction about himself. In the first lesson we covered everything ranging from the studio itself, all the way down to specific roles in the industry, such as the producer, the engineer, and the manager. After this was over, my mentor invited me to stay at the studio and listen as he mastered some tracks for some of the less privileged children from a Mexican town that they are running a program for. Working with my mentor is a privilege, seeing that he is very knowledgeable at what he does. Things are going well and I'm absorbing as much as possible."
-- Tyler Hutchinson, Commerce Township, Michigan
Learn what it takes to successfully record an artist
"This week my mentor and I rerecorded the some artists in the studio. This was a very interesting experience, as the new recording sounded completely different from the old one. The original recording was done with different microphones, recording and mic placement technique. These musicians were very talented and we only had to do 3 or 4 takes. It was a great experience recording such classic songs and it gave me a wider perception of how everything is recorded at one time."
-- Alan Smith, Auburn Hills, Michigan
Sit In On Real Recording Sessions
"I sat in on a recording session this week of a small band recording an album for my mentor. While observing, my mentor and I touched on Pro Tools tricks and shortcut keys. We also discussed the way my mentor likes to lay out his sessions, as far as grouping and naming tracks go. Then, I got to set up some mics on the drum set and me and my mentor tried out a variety of different mics for different sounds. I feel that it is really important that I sit in on as many sessions as I can, just to observe and pick up on as much as possible. This is because I have begun to notice more and more of the importance of experience and a good ear."
-- David Barton, Imlay City, Michigan
Record songs for your local artists
"My studio time with my mentor last week was great. We recorded a few country songs, which was a debut album from a local couple for a church. This definitely gave me much versatility, as well as working with different acts. My mentor and I recorded the drums, guitar, and vocals for both of the country songs, and I learned even more how to properly mic a guitar. I was also able to set up the microphones for the drums much more easily from last week’s experience of learning how to from my mentor"
-- Alan Smith, Auburn Hills, Michigan
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