Recording Arts Workshop
The Imirage Recording Arts Workshop is a 16-week course taught by Mike Jenkins that will cover how to professionally record and mix a live band, as well as the audio engineering best practices and knowledge that’ll help you no matter what style of music you make, including getting to work with real vintage analog equipment! Check out our scope and sequence for the class below:
What’s Inside
Module 1
5 weeks of information covering:
The history of recording and how it relates to your studio
The foundations of acoustics, to maximize your studio space
Analog vs. digital recording and media, all about that analog sound
Console design and signal flow, or how to emulate a console in the box
Microphone design and application, and how to build your best mic locker
Module 2
5 weeks of hands-on tracking with a band, including:
How to set up your DAW and equipment, or how to organize your session to make sure your recording sessions get the best results with the least wasted time
Micing common instruments, including drums, bass, guitar, and vocals.
How to give your artists the best headphone mixes
Module 3
6 weeks of hands-on mixing where you mix what you tracked in the last cell. Covering:
Editing
Pitch correction
Panning
Noise gates and expanders
Compression and de-essing
Equalization
Reverb and delays
On the last night we’ll master your mixes and give you an overview of how to prep your tracks for release on streaming, CD, and vinyl.
Every class starts with a listening in our acoustically treated environment. We listen to a curated series of songs as a class to identify every instrument in the track and its relative volume to help develop critical listening skills that’ll help you in all aspects of producing music.