Portland

Featured Portland 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

With the Portland Recording Connection, there’s no waiting for your questions to be answered, no need to figure out how to pay $100,000 (or more!), and no musical experience is required. While there are music producers out there who seem to be born with genius and the stars properly aligned, most of those in the industry grind their way to a career – and continue to do so client by client, and track by track. 

They build their success by going out and making connections, networking with potential clients, and working their behinds off while in the studio. With the Recording Connection, you’ll still have to put in lots of work. But we’ll take care of one key component: Opportunity.

We give you the opportunity to work side-by-side with an industry insider. They give you the opportunity to work with established clients on the latest and greatest gear. And when the time is right, you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients and start building your brand and your portfolio.

By taking advantage of these opportunities, you’ll be in a perfect position to begin to bring in clients of your own as well as impress your mentor and other audio engineers, producers and  artists in that environment. Every minute you spend in our PORTLAND RECORDING STUDIO is a time when an opportunity could come knocking.

How will you answer? We can’t guarantee there will be a job waiting for you at the end of the program. Guarantees are hard to come by in the music business. But our most successful graduates, the ones that make themselves indispensable, have gone on to work with their mentors in a professional capacity, have been hired by other studios, and even been taken on the road in the middle of their programs!

What makes more sense to you? Spending time and money at a four-year university only to be handed a diploma and firm handshake? Or spending less than a year building a resume, industry experience, a portfolio, and a fat list of potential clients? We can’t guarantee a job, but your hard work, determination, and making the most of your opportunities can go a long way towards helping you cash that first check.

PORTLAND OR MENTOR INFORMATION

From young pop stars like Hannah Montana, Nick Jonas, and Aaron Carter to radio mainstays like Carrie Underwood, John Oates, and John Legend, Portland Recording Connection mentors have worked with a wide variety of acts across a wide variety of genres. Lil Wayne, Enrique Iglesias, Teddy Riley, and more have taken the time to work with our mentors.

That’s a lot of musical ground to cover, and our mentors have the custom studios and most important gear to make sure they’re up to the challenge. Our Portland mentors have the pedigree to charge thousands for a track, have the staying power to make a very good living in the biz, and have the ability to work anywhere they want. 

And their national and international clients don’t mind taking the time to come to Portland to work with them. There’s nothing weird with wanting to work with the best, no matter where they’re located – even if it’s the weird capital of the USA.