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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 South Carolina is one of the most acclaimed audio engineering schools in the country. We prepare students for careers in the audio engineering and music production world by placing them as working externs in real recording studios throughout the state.
The Recording Connection teaches all of its students industry standard programs like Ableton, Pro Tools, Reason and Logic so they can be versatile enough to work in recording studios around the world. As a Recording Connection student, you’ll be paired with a mentor who has been working in the music business for decades. We want our students to become real engineers and producers, so we get them into real recording studios to learn from the best, to gain real experience and make real connections.
We are unique among audio engineering schools alternatives in that we’re located wherever our students are. We are consistently attempting to expand our location list. If you’re living in a city in South Carolina where we don’t currently have a location, we’ll open a new location. We’re already in Columbia, Myrtle Beach, Charleston and other cities.
The Recording Connection also doesn’t want you to be buried under massive school loans when you graduate. We want our graduates to have the freedom to take risks and shake things up. It’s hard to take chances when you have massive debts to pay. That’s why we keep our tuition incredibly low and affordable, so our students can focus on their careers, not their debts.
With one-on-one training with top-shelf producers and engineers, the chance to work in a real studio and make real industry connections, and one of the lowest tuition rates in the industry, it’s no wonder that the Recording Connection is the endorsed audio school alternative by real industry professionals around the world.
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!