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Audio and Music Programs Available Learn from an Industry Professional in a Real Recording Studio.
Artist & Producer in Ableton Live
22 Weeks
Learn to harness your own innate creativity and bring the music of your imagination into the world in Recording Connection for Artist & Producer in Ableton Live. Unleash the power of automation, sampling, instrumentation, mixing, vocal editing, and remixing while you ground yourself in music theory and song structure. Grow your artistry while you learn to work with seasoned industry pros, navigate the studio environment, and build a production map for your future knowing where you want to go and what it takes to get there.
Ableton Electronic Music Production
24-Week and 36-Week Programs Available
Capture the music in your head with our hands-on Ableton Live curriculum featuring private training from noted EDM DJs and producers. In the Recording Connection for Ableton Electronic Music Production program, learn how to elevate your music to the professional level and get your sound in front of the decision-makers at major EDM labels.
Hip Hop & Beat Making
24 Weeks
Take your beat making and hip hop knowledge to the professional level by learning from a major Hip Hop Producer in his or her studio in our Recording Connection for Hip Hop & Beat Making program. Learn what separates the real-deals from the wannabes.
Logic Pro Electronic Music Production
20 Weeks
Learn Logic Pro as you extern under a professional electronic music composer, dance music producer, or touring DJ in their studio in our Recording Connection for Logic Pro Electronic Music Production program. Gain insider access to the electronic music scene. You tell us your favorite genres of electronic music, and we will help you produce that type of music.
Music Producing
20 Weeks
Looking to build a career as a music producer? Our insider access is your opportunity to make lasting hookups that can help you get started at producing today’s music. In our Recording Connection for Music Producing program, you’ll learn in private sessions with a professional producer who can show you the ins-and-outs of this dynamic career.
Audio Engineering & Music Production
20 Weeks
From the basics of listening and microphone placement to Pro Tools and mastering, extern with a professional audio engineer in the studio, learn in the trenches and on-the-job. Take your dreams to the professional level in our Recording Connection for Audio Engineering & Music Production program.
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Recording Connection provides affordable, unique education models coupled with mentor-based (externship) programs that can be engaged remotely or in person.
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The Recording Connection in Pennsylvania is the premiere audio engineering and music production school alternative in the state. Pennsylvania is a hotbed of music production, and we have the advantage over ordinary audio engineering schools because we put you in the heart of the action right from the beginning. Instead of sticking you in a crowded classroom, we’ll place you as an extern inside a real Pennsylvania recording studio, where a seasoned music producer or audio engineer will teach you the ins and outs of recording one-on-one.
We take preparing our students very seriously, which is why we believe the only place to learn audio production is in the studio with a mentor. We pair each of our students with a currently working professional producer who will teach them to master industry standard software programs like Pro Tools, Ableton, Reason and Logic, as well as mic placement, recording and mixing techiques, working with clients, etc. As an extern with our program, you’ll be empowered and qualified to work in any recording studio in the world.
The Recording Connection in Pennsylvania has audio engineering school locations (externship locations) in nearly every city across the state. Whether you live in Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Erie, York or Scranton, we can place you in a real recording studio near where you live, or where you want to live.
The Recording Connection functions with a simple belief: connections are the key to success in the music industry. Connections allow you to work your way up the food chain, to find work, to make income, and ultimately to have job security. Without connections, you don’t really have any future in the music industry. From the outside, it looks like a chicken and the egg scenario. How do you find work without connections? How do you make connections without finding work? Well, that’s very simple: start with the Recording Connection. We get you in the door.
Our Approach to Education
We are not like ordinary audio or trade schools. We don’t waste your time in classrooms. This is the world of audio. Everything you need to know should be taught in the real world. We are unique, out-of-the-box thinkers. After over 3 decades service—we have the formula that works:
A Recipe forSuccess!