With Our Training

A graduate of the Recording Workshop is empowered in many ways.
The skills and knowledge gained are the fundamental benefit, and many graduates choose to apply this benefit towards employment. They are well prepared and qualified for a variety of entry points into the pro audio industry.

One primary entry-level position is the assistant or second engineer.
The assistant serves as an apprentice under the guidance of a recording engineer. While aiding the recording engineer in the many tasks connected with running a session, assistant engineers continue to refine their own recording skills.This period of apprenticeship, and the eventual title of recording engineer, has no industry-established formal structure. The time it takes depends on the circumstances where the assistant engineer is employed and ranges from a few months to a few years. This is the nature of career evolution in nearly all creative production environments.

The broad range of studio operations that employ Recording Workshop grads is a great match-up to their career interests. Working for a music-recording studio is one prime example, but our grads are also behind the boards at studios that specialize in television and film, commercial advertising, corporate and industrial presentation, educational and game software development and more. Our grads are working in virtually any situation where music or audio is a key production component.

Live sound is another job path. The Recording Workshop curriculum is geared primarily towards studio work, yet the skills and knowledge learned are well applied towards sound reinforcement. Our graduates areriding the faders in clubs, concert halls, theaters, churches, convention centers and theme parks across the country. And some grads see even more of this planet as they perform their services on international tours.

The Recording Workshop prepares its graduates for pursuing employment in several ways. Our students learn about the nature of studio hiring practices and effective methods of getting that first job. Each student receives employer contact information helpful in planning a successful job search. And the Recording Workshop is active in assisting those graduates seeking work.Rapid and skillful response to reference requests is one assistance element. Another is the network of employers that have come to trust and depend on the Recording Workshop to service their hiring needs. Cultivated over our long history, this is an ever-growing resource made even more potent as our alumni become studio owners and employers themselves.

And many Recording Workshop grads with an entrepreneurial spirit pursue studio ownership and self-employment as their immediate post-graduate plan. The convergence of audio recording and computer technologies has made this more practical and possible than ever before. Purchasing equipment capable of professional results takes but a fraction of the capital it once required. The curriculum we offer is the perfect on-ramp for this career avenue. The skills and knowledge gained can insure a smart business plan, proper gear selection and installation, and smooth daily operations.

Instead of recording or producing others, many Recording Workshop students have aspirations of developing their own music. With our recording and mixing training, these students become very much at home in the control room and able to stay true to their own musical ideas and production values. Plus, we help them gain a whole new spectrum of sonic possibilities. And with our expanded lecture series, these students are broadly prepared for guiding their artistic careers through the complexities of the music business.