Birmingham

Featured Birmingham Music Production Mentors on Location or Remote

The Recording Connection offers something no “name” 4-year university or audio engineering and music production trade school can. From day one, you’ll be placed in a professional recording studio and receive one-on-one mentoring from award-winning producers and engineers.

With more than 200 locations throughout 48 states, you won’t have to travel thousands of miles for this immersive experience. You learn what it takes to make it in the music business from the inside alongside industry professionals. This includes recording, mixing and mastering, hardware and software, live sound design, and even business skills.

WHAT WE OFFER

Work with the Stars or Amplify Your Sound

We feel the Recording Connection offers so much more than four-year universities or trade schools, from shorter program lengths, lower enrollment costs, and more time working in a professional setting. But one thing we know we do as well – or even better – than anyone else can’t be measured in dollars or by the calendar.

It should come as no surprise that the music industry is dominated by who you know as much as what you know. By working alongside a professional audio engineer or music producer, you’ve already made your first contact in the business. As your mentor brings in more clients, and you begin to start working with these clients, you’ll begin to make more contacts of your own.

These are opportunities you just can’t get in a university classroom. Your professor may bring in the guest speaker, but more than likely they’re there to give a lecture, not work on a bassline. At Recording Connection, the mentor, their clients, and you are there to work. While being a good listener is important, showing what you can do is that much more impressive.   

What makes more sense to you?

These opportunities will determine just how far you will take what Recording Connection has given you. Are you determined, attentive, thoughtful, and responsible? Or do you spend your time in the studio hanging back and texting your pals? If this is just a hobby for you, we’d just as soon you didn’t waste the time of our mentors. They’re here to work – if that’s not your thing, Recording Connection probably isn’t for you.

However, if you want to build a portfolio, create your brand, have the chance to work with a wide range of musical genres (and personalities!), we’re here to welcome you with open arms. What do successful Recording Connection graduates look like? They are often hired on by the mentors they worked with, hired on at other studios based on a good recommendation, or even start their own studios upon the completion of the program.

In some cases, they’ve been hired in the middle of a program and taken on a months-long tour because their skills were so elevated. But they did that themselves. What will you do with your opportunities? 

BIRMINGHAM MENTOR INFORMATION

Working with Emmylou Harris, Taylor Hicks, and Queen Latifah, earning two Cleos and more than 100 Addy Awards for commercial work, and even housing their own labels, Recording Connection mentors in Birmingham work with the best and produce the best. So it’s a good bet they also have only the best recording studio gear.

With multiple rooms to handle any type of genre – from big band to individuals, rock and roll to rap, radio and television – you’ll learn how to record everyone and anyone. Solid State Logic consoles with Ultimation and Total Recall, Klein + Hummel and Yamaha monitors, and Pro Tools HDX digital audio workstations fill out their studios.

But to work with all sounds, you need to work with the old (vintage) as well as the new. Hammond C-3 Yamaha Conservatory Grand Pianos, Fender Amps, drum kits, hi-hats, and even bongos to help create THE sounds for their clients. Mics, digital and analog recorders, and other gear ensure you’ll get the experience you need.