When you’re on the mission of jumpstarting your career in any creative industry, the first thing you should be setting your sights on doing is becoming a named commodity. This means you need to become known by the people in positions of power. Getting known to those in “the know” gets plenty of lipservice. But […]
Is listening to music a passive experience for you? Or are you someone who really gets in there, who dissects and analyzes what’s happening? Do you find yourself listening to songs on repeat or googling the different producers on your favorite tracks to find out what other projects they’ve worked on, maybe see what else […]
So you want to be a working professional, but how do you bridge the gap between being an aspiring pro and a working pro? Remember this: the prime goal of networking is to establish a connection with someone and showcase your abilities as an individual at the same time. Below are networking tips from RRFC […]
We recently spoke with Ashley Calhoun (Los Angeles, CA), author of the
None of us like it when we fail at keeping our New Year’s resolutions. Sure, such failure is rife, so much so that it’s something many of us joke about come February when we’ve already broken one or more of those promises we made ourselves. While we can chalk it up to human nature and […]
From no studio experience to hip-hop engineer in a few months? How does something like that happen? Ask Recording Connection student Darryl Thiessen, who got hired at YSMG, one of the top up-and-coming hip-hop labels in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Darryl came to the Recording Connection with nothing more than a desire to work in the industry. […]
Coke Youngblood knew from an early age that he wanted to move to Los Angeles and pursue a career as a songwriter/producer. “I remember coming out here [to L.A.] when I was 16 to go to Universal Studios with my brother and my stepmom and my dad,” he says, “and I just remember being here […]
“I’ve always loved music,” says Recording Connection student Heather Crawford. “It’s something that’s always been a part of my soul. It was this early love of music that first steered Heather toward the club scene. “I had some friends that are into Djing, and so I just started messing around on the equipment, fell in […]
When Orlando Gomez enrolled in the Recording Connection, he had one primary goal in mind: to launch a career as a music producer and audio engineer. So when he was placed as an apprentice at the up-and-coming Beacon Hill Recording Studios in El Paso, TX, he approached it with a simple mindset that literally enabled […]
Creatives have different names for it. Some call it “The Zone” some “The Sweet Spot,” and still others “The Grind.” For the sake of this conversation we’re going to call it The Flow. It’s something that you know when you feel it. It’s you when you’re working at your complete and total best, when your […]
