Salt Lake City

Featured Salt Lake City 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 Unique Sound

There are several advantages of entering Recording Connection programs. Personalized schedules with your Academic Facilitator (like your 2nd mentor, they operate out of our HQ, in Los Angeles), one-on-one time with your mentor, and working on the digital and analog gear the professionals use, inside a professional Salt Lake City recording studio. If you’re remote, you’ll be on your DAW, training directly with your mentor and also your Academic Facilitator, and making music of your own, if you so choose. 

All of that is designed to give you a solid foundation and deeper understanding of the creative, the workhouse, and the business aspects of how the recording industry operates. But this is a creative industry, so who you know (& who knows you) is just as valuable as what you know. Recording Connection programs offer just that: The opportunity to make those connections. 

We give you the opportunities to prove yourself to potential employers and clients. Did you know that many of our students go on to work for their mentors or at the studios they learned? In one case, a client hired a student for a six-month touring gig after working with him during a session – and that student hadn’t even finished the program yet!

Other students have gotten work with other music producers and at various recording studios, based on strong word of mouth from their mentor or clients who’ve interacted with them. Many of our graduates started their own studios shortly after graduating, taking what they learned during their time to secure their own clients.

These are opportunities just not available in a university setting. You may get the occasional guest speaker, but at conventional schools they’re just not set up to work with professional musicians who are working on their next track, next album, next release. With Recording Connection, you’ll ONLY work with people already in the industry.

What could be better than that?

SALT LAKE CITY MENTOR INFORMATION

Whether they’re using a one-of-a-kind Allen & Heath 64 input console with Burr-Brown mic preamp upgrades to produce a smooth, warm sound or the latest Pro Tools digital audio workstation software for cutting-edge EDM, Salt Lake City mentors work with the best gear in the industry. 

With vintage and modern processors, enough studio space to create different acoustics, and all of the mics and plug-ins your sessions could ever need, this kind of learning isn’t like going to school. This is important because some of our mentors have worked with every genre under the sun. Everclear and Megadeth and Paula Cole and Faith Hill. From local punk sensations Aftermath of a Trainwreck, to ska aficionados 2 ½ White Guys, to reggae-inspired popsters The Samples.

Being able to work with such a wide range of sounds is important. Many audio engineers or music producers don’t pick and choose who they work with, not at first: a client is a client. By working with someone that can switch gears at a moment’s notice, you get a truer understanding of what the craft, the art, and the business of music is all about.