Guitar Center is offering a new series of free recording workshops aimed at taking the complexity out of home recording. In five "Recording Made Easy" sessions, musicians can take their ideas from basic tracks to finished songs by learning how to use an Apple Computer and GarageBand.
"With the ‘Recording Made Easy’ workshops, we’re aiming to demystify home recording for musicians who don’t have the time to really dig in on their own or feel that it might be too complicated," says Guitar Center’s Karam Kaul.
"Our goal is to empower more musicians to record their music and take some of the intimidation factor out of home recording."
"Recording Made Easy" workshops are offered at the Guitar Center, 17135 W. Bluemound Rd., at 10 a.m. on Saturday mornings on a rotating basis. If an attendee misses a portion of the workshop or just needs a refresher, they're invited to come back as often as needed when classes are offered. Every workshop features a question and answer session with an on-site instructor.
The "Recording Made Easy" schedule is:
Week 1: Signal Flow and Microphone Techniques, including Signal Flow Basics; Recording Basics; Recording Vocals; Recording Electric Guitar
Week 2: Virtual Instruments and Loops, including working with virtual (software) instruments; Working with Apple Loops
Week 3: Effects, including working with compression, eq, reverb and with guitar amp and pedal software
Week 4: Mixing and Publishing, including preparing a mix; Automation; Mixdown / Publishing
Week 5: Online Music Publishing (in months with 5 weeks only), including how to use TuneCore to get music digital distributed on Amazon, iTunes and Spotify.
For more information about "Recording Made Easy," visit gc.guitarcenter.com/recording-made-easy
