San Diego Recording Connection Audio School

SAN DIEGO MUSIC SCHOOL BY THE SAN DIEGO RECORDING CONNECTION

Your SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA MUSIC RECORDING SCHOOL

Looking for a great San Diego Music School in which to learn recording and audio production? Look no further than RECORDING CONNECTION, the only San Diego Music School that gets you inside an actual San Diego recording studio, working as an audio student apprentice while you learn audio engineering, music producing, mixing or live audio. The best way to enter the recording scene in San Diego is by apprenticing in a San Diego recording studio--and thats where RECORDING CONNECTION can place you. 

Why would you spend upwards of 50 thousand dollars to go to a music audio trade school, when for a fraction of that amount you could go to music school in a real recording studio? Get on the inside track, learn directly from the pros in a real-world environment, and make vital industry contacts along the way. Our music school alternative is the smartest, most cost efficient way to launch your audio engineering career.

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Located about two hours south of Los Angeles, the city of San Diego anchors its own metro area of nearly 3 million people. Although its music scene is not quite as high-profile as that of L.A., it is still quite influential across a wide range of genres. Among the numerous bands and musicians with connections to San Diego are Jason Mraz, Blink-182, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, Ratt, and Switchfoot, just to name a few. 

Today, San Diego continues to have a vibrant music scene, with live venues and high-quality recording studios hosting both local, national and international acts. If you are considering a career in audio as a recording engineer, live audio engineer or music producer, theres plenty of activity in San Diego to keep you busy. 

San Diegos own music scene, plus its close proximity to Los Angeles, make it an ideal connection point for aspiring audio engineers, recording artists and other music professionals--and when you enroll in RECORDING CONNECTION, our many professional connections and relationships become your cutting-edge advantage to getting your foot in the door. Our mentor-apprentice approach gets you close to the action in ways other music schools cant match, and as you learn the career skills on real recording/audio projects, youll also make important industry connections which usually lead to future work.  Enroll in our San Diego Music School today, and let us get you started today! 

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Success Stories from Students Near San Diego

Receive one-one-one hands on training from your mentor.

“Today, I went into the studio and my mentor got me started right away on a project that he said would take up the whole day. He told me to go into the mic closet and get a Sennheiser e 609, as well as one of his ribbon mics, because we were going to mic an amp which my mentor hooked one of his keyboards up to. I put the e 609 only a few inches away from the grill facing the center of the cone, and I placed the ribbon mic directly behind it, separated by almost a foot. I then was assigned to set up headphones, which I plugged into send A + B in the wall. After this, I did a beat machine to a separate channel and my mentor set up a loop machine for the keyboard. He then told me to wire certain outboard effects and put it onto a bus channel so it could be used to affect all channels. I needed a little help with this part but I feel like I’m really getting the hang of it. After all this, I opened up Pro Tools and started a new session, set up all the channels on the program including a click track, and enabled each track to record. My mentor then went out and laid down a basic melody on the keyboard, which he looped, and came back in to inspect it. H e showed me how to pan out the sound from the mics on the board to achieve a stereo sound and then he went back out to add some beats to the melody with his beat machine. When all the recording was done, my mentor showed me different functions that can be used in Pro Tools, like how you can move pieces of a recorded track around to match the beat by snapping them to the grid supplied by the click track speed, and different plug-ins pre loaded on the program. My mentor and I arranged to have another lesson in a few days as well. Today was a very fun, hands-on day for me, and I learned a lot."
-- Jared Gattey, San Diego, California

Get the motivation and encouragement from your mentor needed to succeed in the industry

"In my session with my mentor this week, he basically went through all the plug-in types and the specific ones he uses himself for recording, as well as how to navigate through Pro Tools. We went over Reverb, Modulation, Dynamic, and Effects. We next went over how to start a project in Pro Tools, create new tracks, and assign plug-ins to a specific tracks. I feel amazing right now! I have learned a ridiculous amount from the time I started with my mentor, up until now. My mentor is a very inspiring mentor, which helps me a lot to understand what it will take to get to where I want to as, well as has opened my eyes as to the many opportunities for my career in the music industry. The Recording Connection program is an amazing experience. I've already started producing my own tracks and as I currently work towards my certification, I am I am working on my first one recording ever."
Chris Hogue, Poway, California

One on One Instruction in Pro Tools

"I have been working on a Pro Tools project with my mentor all this week. I have been learning the shortcuts, and how to use the Pro Tools program effectively in order to accomplish a project, which has been at the forefront. The more I use Pro Tools, the more I know how much I have to learn! So far this week, I have been adding midi parts, learning mute, save, as well as other shortcuts. Also, using the different tools to adjust the type of instrument, length, and pitch of notes has occupied a lot of my time with my mentor this week. My first project has almost all the musical and vocal parts, in which I will then be ready for equalization and mixing. Now, from my mentorship, I know ways to make my next project easier and better!"
Mara Azlin, Valley Center, California, Recording

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