Real World Experience Meets Education
The Cleveland School of Audio Recording is a 24-week educational program guiding students through the basic fundamentals of audio engineering as well as advanced skills used to create the industry's best-sounding records. Working one-on-one or in a small (2–6 person) group with a qualified instructor, students spend 2 days a week in lectures and/or labs, where they dedicate 2–6 hours on each of those days to mastering certain concepts, theories, and hands-on techniques of production recording and mixing.
Outside of their required classroom and lab hours, students have access to the studios for open labs during which they can apply practical applications of each week's studies. Students are also encouraged to sit in on real recording and mixing sessions conducted by Lava Room Recording's staff. At the end of the program, students are required to schedule an artist or band of their own and record a song from start to finish (recording and mixing) as their final project. This allows the student and the instruc