Chicago Music
Production School Locations

Learn more about our Chicago music production and audio engineering training studios (a PRO Chicago recording studio) and start your journey now.

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Where in Chicago?

You can learn in a working studio all over the Chicago Metro area. Call us to check availability and reserve a spot - 865.413.5724

How Much?

We have financial assistance, tuition is from $14 - $16k, We will work with your budget. Call us 865.413.5724

What do you offer?

We offer programs across all areas of Music Production, from Audio Engineering to Hip Hop, Ableton to Live Sound and Music Business education and much see below for all our program areas.

Who will teach me?

A grammy winner or nominee, a legend, a hit maker. We only use top pros to teach you privately in their recording studios. Please see below.

When?

We are currently accepting applications to learn in real recording studios in and around Chicago, please find which of our programs below appeals to you and get started by filling out the form below.

How?

Learn in a PRO STUDIO, hands on from a PRO with Grammy's, Gold, Hits or Music Business Influencer as an extern/apprentice. Say “no” to boring college classrooms and yes to learning in the real world of a Pro Recording Studio. Watch the video below to learn more.

We offer a wide selection of music production and audio engineering programs, explore areas based on your interests

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Meet Ari, Faye, Uriel, Taylor Dominic and Luci: a few years ago they were just getting started, then they found Recording Connection, look at them now. COULD THIS BE YOU?

Blink 182
Deadmau5
Beyonce
Snoop Dogg
Weezer
Eminem
Taylor Swift

Pharrell Williams has worked with Recording Connection audio engineers and music producers in their Austin, TX, Atlanta, GA, and Las Vegas, NV, studios.

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Recording Connection students in Music City, USA (Nashville, TN) work in the same studios where their mentors have worked with Taylor Swift.

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Snoop Dogg has worked with several Recording Connection mentors across the US, including engineers and producers in San Diego, CA, Houston, TX, and Sacramento, CA.

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Recording Connection externs in New York City, NY, may work in the same studio where our mentors have worked alongside Stevie Wonder.

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Beyonce has worked at Recording Connection mentor recording studios in Philadelphia, PA, Los Angeles, CA, and Atlanta, GA.

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Our audio engineers and music producer studios have welcomed Deadmau5 in several cities, including Las Vegas, NV, and San Diego, CA.

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Justin Timberlake has worked at Recording Connection mentor studios In Tampa, FL, and the Denver, Co, metro area.

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Recording Connection mentors have worked with Drake in Hartford, CT, Toronto, ON, Houston, TX, and Los Angeles, CA, recording studios.

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Recording Connection audio engineers and producers have worked with John Meyer in New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Dallas, TX, and Atlanta, GA, studios

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Skrillex has worked with Recording Connection mentors in their studios in Las Vegas, NV, San Diego, CA, Kansas City, MO, and several locations throughout Los Angeles, CA.

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Our audio engineers and music producers have worked with Kendrick Lamar in their New York, NY, and Richmond, VA, studios.

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Ed Sheeran has worked in Recording Connection recording studios in Dallas, TX, and San Francisco, CA.

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Students are learning in studios where these legendary artists record.

Music Production School in Chicago - Get Connected

We are the only Licensed Apprenticeship School that trains you in the real world.

You need to be in a real recording studio, and you need to be making connections as you learn. Period. End of story. If you want to learn more about why it is vital to learn as an apprentice in a real recording studio, call us now.

Other schools will tell you they don’t suck, they will tell you they do it differently, they will tell you a ton of things. If they are putting you in a classroom, if they are located on a college campus or in a business park or in a shopping mall, then you are in the wrong place right from the start.

In the music business it is not just who you know, but WHO KNOWS YOU.

The more connections you have in music, the more you will work, the more you will work, the more you will make, the more you make the more freedom you will have.

Right from day one of being accepted into our Programs, you are connected and working with award winning and nominated producers and engineers, just you and the mentor, in their studio, on their professional equipment. This is Real. We Hit Different. Amplify Your Life Now.

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Benefits of learning with Recording Connection

We educate you in a PRO STUDIO. 1:1 with an industry expert that is recording with the top artists today. No classrooms. You will train where you want to work one day, or train where you want to record one day or both.

We are committed to keeping students out of debt. We are seriously affordable and deliver the best learning experience in music production and audio engineering education.

We are connected worldwide to the music producers and audio engineers that are working with the top talent. With Recording Connection, you get educated and connected to all the professionals and music industry specialists you can imagine.

We are local and remote. Live in Chicago and want to study with an award winning producer in Chicago? Live in Los Angeles, CA and want the same experience? We’ve been connecting student and award winning producers in person and remote long before any of us heard the word COVID.

This is your classroom with recording connection

Why would you pay a college to learn in a classroom with 40+ other students when you can be learning 1:1 in a working studio with a PRO? (for 1/4 the cost...)

You Learn Here with Recording Connection
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We work with some of the biggest names in the game, including Twista, Wake Flocka, Wu-Tang, Atlantic Records, Lecrae, Reach Records, Def Jam, Jonathan McReynolds to name a few and have worked on multiple Grammy Award winning albums, and numerous Billboard hit records. I provide real world experience, hands-on learning, and industry connections that can change your life. Specializing in Pro Tools Audio Engineering, Logic Hip Hop Beat Making, and Ableton Electronic Music Production. I make sure all my students have the tools they need to succeed in the music industry.

Here are some of the killer recording studios our school has placed students in both Chicago and around the world.

We provide students with a real world learning experience by placing them inside of working recording studios, where they can learn from experienced professionals and gain hands-on experience.

Are you our next Success Story?

Success Stories From Chicago Recording Connection Graduates

Ari Judah graduated from Recording Connection in 2011, and has spent the last 12 years amassing an impressive career. Multiple platinum records, a Latin Grammy nomination, and a new state-of-the-art studio in Los Angeles…

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Fay Garrison, electronic music producer and Uriel Soto Jr., audio engineer are two Recording Connection students who mentored with legendary producer and Recording Connection mentor, Adam Moseley (Beck, Nikka Costa/Lenny Kravitz, John Cale, Wolfmother, Spike Jonze, U2)…

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We will not get your family into insuremountable debt!

Recording Connection

Average Tuition $12,000 - $16,000

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Here's what our students in Chicago have to say about recording connection

Recording connection has definitely helped me improve as Musician. Sam Zulfer is very knowledgeable about music production and can give you direction you need if you hit a block, he is patient and I'm happy to be learning from him....

Doctor Gyasi – Chicago, Illinois

Hello my name is Michael Jacobucci I am 33 years old, and was born and raised in Chicago Heights IL. “Da Heights” as it’s known, has a population of about thirty thousand residents, located about twenty or thirty minutes south of downtown Chicago, depending on how you drive, with or without traffic of course. For…...

Michael Jacobucci – Chicago, Illinois

Money, when one has a dream is an asset better spent on an experience. In the middle of an obscure pandemic, unemployed from closures I had come across this school that not only lent me the money to pay for the course but gave me some of the MOST TALENTED producers I have ever come…...

Mohammed Ali Jaffer – Chicago, Illinois

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