A producer working at the mixing console in a recording studio control room

Recording & production

Make your record at the Workshop

NJWA offers private (and occasionally group) production lessons, recording sessions, production assistance and remastering.

Who it's forMiddle school through adult

Format

Private and small group

Software

Logic Pro X

Also offered

Sessions & remastering

Studio

Westfield, NJ

What individual and group classes teach

  • The equipment and software used inside a recording and production studio
  • How to work independently in Logic Pro X
  • How to set up a mixing console and the workings of the mixing board
  • How to build a template to record live instrumentation, individual musicians and bands
  • Using virtual instruments inside the recording program
  • Microphone placement techniques for drums, bass and guitar
  • Digital recording through a mixing console, watching levels, EQ, compression and other attributes
  • Waveform analysis, intricate sample editing, virtual plugins and virtual instruments
  • Planning and managing a recording session as an engineer or producer
  • Creating your own track, engineered and produced from an original composition
  • Theory and composition skills

There are also recording sessions for bands and solo artists.

Inside the studio

A look back at when the recording studio first opened its doors in 2018.

Photographs and/or videos of participants in this program may be used in publicly released media such as websites, social media, advertisements, brochures and posters. Parents and guardians must notify NJWA in writing if they do not consent to these uses of photos or videos of their children.

Producer Malcolm Joseph with a bass guitar in the NJWA production studio, in front of the mixing console, studio monitors and a computer running recording software
In the production studio
A production teacher pointing at a laptop timeline while a teen student watches, with a pad controller on the desk
One-to-one production lesson
A teen band wearing headphones recording around microphones in a studio live room — drummer, bassist and guitarist
Tracking a band

Book studio time or lessons

The program was originated by producer Malcolm Joseph, who leads production at NJWA.

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