6 Day Recording Boot Camp®

Next 6-Day Recording Boot Camps

Southern California: TBA

Italy: TBA

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The Recording Boot Camps®  are six day workshops geared towards advanced beginners and intermediate students. The 6-day workshops have limited enrollment to ensure plenty of personal attention to the needs of each student. The heart of the curriculum, developed and taught by veteran producer-engineer Ronan Chris Murphy, is all about taking your recordings to the next level and helping you make better records. The goal of every Boot Camp is to demystify the recording process and knock down the barriers that are keeping you from making the kind of recordings you want to make.

The Six Day Recording Boot Camps cover audio theory, recording and mixing.

The course has helped everyone from major label producers to weekend warriors coming from all corners of the globe from South Asia to Northern Europe. The goal of the Recording Boot Camps is simple: To give professionals and amateurs involved in recording the skills and knowledge to make the records they want to make; to help students get the sounds they want to hear coming out of the speakers. We are Format and Genre Agnostic. The Recording Boot Camps are not designed for any particular style of music or any particular recording format. Any given class could have students into heavy metal working with Cuebase, or a jazz artist working on analog tape, or a choir director working with a stand alone digital recorder, or a hip-hop producer working in Pro Tools. The program is all about giving you skills and knowledge that will apply to any style of music in any recording situation. The course covers pre-production through mastering with a heavy focus on recording and mixing and learning to use mic techniques, dynamics and other processors as creative tools. The material also helps students understand how every step of the recording process relates to all the stages of a recording. The majority of the Recording Boot Camps are held at Veneto West Studio in Southern California, with a special “Italian Villa Boot Camp” held at a 500 year old Italian Villa in North Italy outside of Venice. The program is also hosted by various institutions around the world.  One thing that is different about Recording Boot Camp is that anything a student learns at a Recording Boot Camp is taught by a full time working pro with major label credits. It is hugely important to us that students that attend the Recording Boot Camps love the experience. Therefore, for the Los Angles and Italy Boot Camps, we conduct a phone interview with any potential student to make sure that what we do and what the student is looking to learn is a great match and that the student’s level of experience is appropriate for the course. If you are interested, contact us to set up the interview. Workshops often sell out a couple months in advance so early registration is strongly recommended.

The materials are not designed to simply show a student where to put a microphone or a particular setting on a compressor, but the “why” so that you can understand recording on a deeper level and use the craft of recording to unleash your creative ideas in the studio.

This is a rough breakdown of the course, but is not entirely accurate, because the course takes a holistic approach to recording. You cannot talk about getting a great kick drum sound without talking about mastering…

Day 1&2

In depth training on recording theory, workflow and core components of great audio. We dive deep into understanding phase and dynamics, two of the most important components of great sounding recordings (we spend almost an entire day on compression and how it applies to recording, mixing and mastering).

Day 3&4

Two days of tracking / recording. We focus on the main instruments of rock and pop, like drums, voice, guitar and bass, but the small class size allows students to learn about any unique recording situations they may have. These two days cover far more than just showing you where to put the mic. We explain mic theory so you can have control over your own mic placement and get the kinds of sounds you want. In addition to the technical aspects, we also dive into the production side of recording: How to get the rights sounds and performances for the recording you are trying to make.

Day 5&6

Two days of intense mixing. We go step by step through the recording process, from the sequence of events to the tools used, and why. Ronan will show you how to get dramatic results, even if you only have the stock plug-ins that came with your DAW.