Los Angeles Recording School
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| Los Angeles Recording School | |
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| Established: | 1985 |
| Type: | Private college |
| President: | Diana Derycz-Kessler |
| Location: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | www.recordingcareer.com |
The Los Angeles Recording School is located in Hollywood, California on Sunset Boulevard. The school provides hands-on training in professional music recording, audio engineering, and audio production techniques.
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[edit] History
The Los Angeles Recording School, formerly known as The Los Angeles Recording Workshop, was started in 1985 as a hands-on recording engineer job-training school. Classes and workshops are taught by recording industry professionals on state-of-the-art audio equipment to provide training for students interested in starting or improving their careers in professional audio production and music recording. [1]
[edit] Academics
The Los Angeles Recording School trains students in all aspects of recording session procedures and technologies, prepairing them for entry level positions in the recording industry that are intended to result in a career as a recording engineer. This includes the initial preparation stages of equipment setup and preproduction, all the way through the multi-track recording process, to mixing and mastering the finished product in stereo or 5.1 surround sound.
The program includes training in both classroom and hands-on lab environments covering a wide range of audio disciplines including recording, mixing, as well as optimizing audio for music, movies, television, computer games, and the Internet.
The Los Angeles Recording School offers both a part-time and a full-time program. New classes start every month for the full-time program and every other month for the part time program.[2]
[edit] Student Life
Students at the Los Angeles Recording School live in off-campus housing. There are no dorms or apartments provided by the school, however the school does provide assistance in finding local apartments if needed.
[edit] Alumni
Los Angeles Recording School graduates have worked on Platinum and Gold albums as well as won GRAMMY Awards with some of the biggest artists in music today including: Sheryl Crow, Eminem, Brian McKnight, Enrique Iglesias, Vanessa Williams, Brandy, Johnny Cash, Offspring, Alice in Chains, Outkast, Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, Destiny’s Child, System of Down, Pink, Mary J. Blige, Seal, Christina Aguilera, and others. The Royal Dance Project, one of the leading exponents of electronic music in Mexico is conformed 50% by Nikko Gibler, a former student of this institution and 50% percent by Daniel Cantisani, who attended the school's East Coast counterpart, Full Sail University.[3]
