Seattle

Featured Seattle 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

Seattle offers a unique blend of gritty local acts, more polished regional artists, and large enough venues to hold even the biggest stars in the industry today. Your mentor will have worked with any number of genres, from indie-pop to EDM to hip hop to metal. From single artists to folksie trios to full ensembles.

When you’re working with a mentor, they won’t just close the studio down. This is their life – they can’t put it on hold for several hours a day. Which gives you the perfect chance to see how they move around the consoles, work with the talent, and take charge of the studio.

As you grow your knowledge base and technical skill, you can be asked to do more than set up the mics or run cables. Exhibit a responsible, professional demeanor, and that you’re learning and applying those skills during your time as a student and you’ll get your chance to shine. Perhaps more than anything, there’s one, single biggest thing the Recording Connection can provide.

Opportunity. Each session will act as an interview for a future client or employer. The hardest working people in our programs have gone on the road with touring bands, become artists’ own recording engineers, hitting the road with them across Europe, been hired as in-house engineers, or have even been hired on at the studios they learned. Every day is a new day to show just how indispensable you are.

The music business is built up by word of mouth almost more than anything else. Our mentors are some of the most respected audio engineers and music producers in the industry. A good word from them could go a long way to set up your career in the music business. But if you don’t put in the time, effort, sweat, and tears, what are the chances they’ll say anything at all?

SEATTLE MENTOR INFORMATION

During the late 80s and early 90s, Seattle was ground zero for the Grunge Movement, although artists from all musical genres have recorded in the Pacific Northwest. With up-and-coming regional acts to entertain indie kids, as well as the biggest names in the industry to play to sold-out arenas, our mentors make a point to work with all kinds of acts.

Our mentors have worked with Alice in Chains, The Posies, Candlebox, and Pearl Jam. Andre 3000, Jay-Z, G-Love and Special Sauce, Ryan Lewis and Macklemore, Pavement, Duff McKagan of Guns and Roses, and even NBC’s The Voice. When working in the music industry, the ability to branch off into other entertainment mediums (television, movies, video games, etc.) brings in more clients and builds your portfolio.

One way to keep those clients you bring is having a solid mix of retro equipment and state of the art gear. Our mentors work with a wide variety of both, including in-studio instruments, SSL 4056 G/G+ Series with Ultimation (moving faders) consoles, and analog recorders from Studer, Ampex, and Otari.