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Audio recording training

In-home Pro Tools, Cubase/Nuendo, and Logic training
for musicians and voiceover artists

 

These days, all musicians should know how to record themselves
Traditionally—and to this day—musicians spend the vast majority of their practice time learning and perfecting their technique, enlarging their repertoire, and improving their general artistry. This is, absolutely, as it should be.

However, adding the ability to record oneself and to compose and arrange in the computer creates some wonderful additional opportunities. Musicians and voiceover artists who record themselves:

Improve their objectivity about their own playing and can therefore accelerate their improvement; Gain a great tool for reviewing their work; Gain access to a vast array of compositional and orchestration resources, commanding a superlative palette of virtual instruments and sounds; Have full control over their own recorded sound and performances; Save significant amounts of money by being able to do their own audio recording and editing; Have the ability to record demos and finished works to share commercially and personally; Gain 24-hours-per-day, 7-days-per-week access to a free-to-use, paid-for recording studio of their own; Have the best possible tool for preparing for sessions in elite professional studios.

Additionally, many musicians work in genres, like electronic music and modern pop music, where being able to record is central to their enterprise.

Why in-home recording training?
Today's computers and home recording equipment are powerful enough, and of a high-enough quality, for musicians to record themselves and make extemely good, uncompromised recordings at home.

However, all home environments are different, all equipment budgets are different, and each artist's recording goals are unique.

That's where home-based instruction comes in. We work together to determine what you want to accomplish. Then, we budget for the gear that you'll need, and I help you choose it. We set up your equipment together. We build your studio. You begin the journey of learning to record using your equipment and recording your material.

A training regimen which is too often abstract, disconnected, and confusing in a classroom setting becomes totally personalized and totally relevant when conducted in your home.

What you'll learn
Over the course of a few months of weekly, two-hour sessions, you will build and operate your own recording system and become a confident, competent recordist.

You will develop a deep understanding of:

recording technique in general as well as recording technique as applied specifically to the music that you make; the equipment used in recording (such as microphones, preamplifiers, converters, and computer audio interfaces); the technical and creative uses of equalizers, compressors, de-essers, reverb units, delays, and other sonic effects; mixing, mastering, and exporting your music; multi-track drums editing and mixing*; MIDI and the world of virtual instruments*; the functions and possibilities provided within your recording software.

        ^*: if applicable to your music

 
A lifetime investment
Learning to record well, like learning to email, is a skill that, once learned, is not forgotten. Once you can record with confidence and skill, a world of opportunity and of freedom opens up to you.

I have never met a recording musician who is not extremely glad to have recording abilities within his or her arsenal.

Rates and contact information
Rates for my services generally run $150 per each two-hour session. I generally do not charge for travel time.

Initial phone consultations are always free. Call (310) 663-1367 or email
fred //-at-// fredmorgenstern.com to discuss home recording education with me.

You can call seven days a week during the hours of 8:00AM to 8:00PM.

(If you email me, replace the " //-at-// " shown above with an "@" sign.)

A great gift!
Do you know someone who would like to learn to record? Consider giving him or her a gift of in-home recording lessons.