Production & Audio Engineering Lessons
The song is written. The band is rehearsed. And now it's time to enter the recording studio. People travel from all over the world to professional studios to get that perfect sound for their music. With the right balance of art and science, producers and audio engineers are largely responsible for making the vision of the artist come to life. It's truly where the magic happens.
Learn from a certified audio Engineer
While still living in Lexington, KY, Trevor earned a Professional Audio Engineering Certification from Long Island Recording Company. Over the years, he has worked both as a producer and engineer for artists in Nashville and Lexington. In 2010 Trevor mixed and mastered the debut album "Lost and Gone Forever" by Dream the Electric Sleep. This gained the band critical acclaim within the prog rock genre allowing them to begin touring internationally. Trevor continues working as a professional producer/engineer and has even written, mixed, and mastered 5 albums of his own music.
PRODUCING
The role of a producer is a little less scientific than that of an audio engineer. Rather than dealing with the technical sonic details of a song, producers must make decisions in regard to the song's structure, stylistic approach, instrument choice, melodic integrity, and overall vibe/direction of the recording. A producer is there to make artistic decisions before, during, and after a song is recorded that affect the way a listener will experience the track.
Engineering
Audio engineers are the wizards of a recording studio. They turn the knobs and control every technical aspect of a recording session from start to finish. During the mixing phase, audio engineers make the artist and producers vision come to life on the sonic landscape. With trained ears and many tools at their disposal, they take a song from muddy, dull, and lifeless to clear, balanced, and pleasing. It takes years to develop a confident foundation as an audio engineer, and decades to truly master, but the concepts never change.
Audio curriculum
Students will learn the skills and tools necessary of both a producer and audio engineer. Everything from compression, EQ, microphone choice, studio design, sampling, MIDI, reverb, effects, workflow, DAWs, patchbays, recording principles, frequency spectrum ear training, and much more will be covered and developed upon. Students will get weekly assignments to mix real songs from scratch, produce instrumental tracks in different styles, and read about the world of recording technology. Students will also learn the basics of playing piano and music theory. The direction of the curriculum will be suited to the stylistic interests of each individual student allowing them to learn the specifics of their genre as they progress.