My name is Phil Thomas and I have been in the
Recording
Connection program for 2 weeks now. So this is like my future to the
studio and
so far the program has been great. I came in with a bit of a prior
knowledge but
I had always been making do with the equipment that I got my hands on
and now I
have a chance to come a step to the big boys and that’s why some of the
things
are more important to the study
Phil Thomas - Recording Connection Student
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Hi I met Jimmy too about 5 or 6 years ago and started
teaching for
Recording Connection. He has got a great course. He uses the reference
book of modern recording techniques which I studied with 25 years ago,
with the first edition. We are not up to the 5th edition and the
problem is the modern recording technique is not a training source.
It’s very technical. What Jimmy has done is taken the information from
there and made a course from beginning to end. So you will skip around
different chapters for each test. And then with me teaching you, you
can go from the beginning to the end of learning recording engineering
and it’s an excellent course. The reference book is the best in the
world and Jimmy has created excellent course of top to bottom. And you
come to me and we put it all together here in this room and we record
bands, we overed up bands ad we mix bands. And we just keep doing that
till you get it. also what we had is you can intern here and you are
either on a professional session that you get to relate to how a
producer works with the artist and works with the engineer and if there
isn’t a session in which I hope there always is but if there is not you
get to Pro Tools and train and learn and play
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My name is Chet Thompson and I am the owner of Elephant
Symphony Music
and Post and we have enjoyed working with Recording Connection for 2
years now. We teach many students of all ages and ethnicities to become
engineers in the music and post field. We have a staff of certified Pro
Tools engineers and just to walk in to the studio and to see it
thriving with all the musicians here learning with a hands on
experience in a world class studio rather than in the classroom is
quite a unique experience.
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My original idea was coming in here and just
working in music because I love music. That’s my passion, is music and
I am not the greatest drummer. So I figured I had to just make it sound
better. Then along with the music came the post production because you
get into things and the post production definitely helps. It all helps
with each other and you find a whole another career and I am starting
to pursue more into post production now.
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I
just went in the internet and I was looking at the recording
school in Los Angeles because I figured it was right in the heart of
Los Angeles like why not but then I remembered like from what I did at
my junior college like there is 12, 13 people in the class. And some of
them aren’t really in it for the same reason I want to be in it. They
just figured oh this is a good way for me to make albums right away.
Like I just want to make albums right away, it’s like there is a lot of
stuff that you need to learn before you just make albums, before you
get involved. And so I just figured I rather be somewhere where I could
just, I wish soemo0ne could just teach me one on one and I stumbled
across Recording Connection and I read the success stories. And I was
like wow this seems pretty legit and it’s a lot cheaper than what those
technical schools offer because I know actually a buddy of mine just
went to the recording school in LA and he is paying like between
18-20,000. And its already what I have, I mean I got a certificate at
my Junior college for going to the audio program and its just that’s
all they offer there too. It’s just a certificate.
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