TRCoA is recognized by the Texas Workforce Commission. Because all of our classes are taught one on one, TRCoA falls under a special exemption for trade schools provided by the Texas Workforce Commission.

Tuition covers the cost of attending TRCoA. Additional costs includes book purchases, external firewire drives and CD-RW's.

The Recording Conservatory of Austin offers student loan style payment plans to qualified individuals for up to ninety percent of tuition costs. Payment plans are four-year terms and are not differed. This means that you would put 10% down when you enroll and then have reasonable monthly payments over about a 48 month payout period.

Our entire recording arts program can last as long as 14 months. This includes both the Beginning Recording Techniques and Advanced Music Production Classes. The length of the program varies slightly per person due to the fact that every class is taught one on one.

No. The Beginning Audio Engineering class must be completed first. Once the student completes the Beginning Audio Engineerng class they can take the Advanced Music Production class.

TRCoA's program is designed to work with your schedule. All classes are taught one on one and they can be scheduled for evenings or weekends. Additionally, the studio and editing rooms are open to students 24/7.

Any resident of the US may attend TRCoA, however, at this time, TRCoA can not provide an international student with a school visa.

You will need a minimum of 15 to 20 free, rested hours a week. The time commitment of these hours is not flexible but when these hours are scheduled is very flexible. About 4-6 hours a week will be spent in flexibly scheduled one on one course instruction. The rest of the hours will be lab hours booked by you and will be spent either in assists with other engineer/students or in the studio producing your many assigned studio projects.

There are many different arrangements under which an audio engineer or music producer can run their business. You don't have to buy any gear. You can simply build "engineer rate" relationships with existing studios. Then you will charge your clients an additional amount for yourself.

To set up a time to visit TRCoA EMAIL or call (512) 231-0344. Appointments can be schedule for day, evening or weekends.

New classes start every two months. Classes start in January, March, May, July, September, and November.

For your recording projects, you can bring in any artist you would like. Some students will bring in bands that are in a specific genre for the majority of their projects. Other students will focus on a wider experience and work with artists in different genres or even on such projects as film audio. We will instruct you on how to best meet and approach artists for your recording projects. Austin is all about independent film and live music, artists are always interested in working with TRCoA students.

Yes. TRCoA encourages you to work with different artists but students are free to work on their own music projects.

TRCoA does not require you to focus on a specific genre and in general, will encourage you to work in a wide variety of genres for your projects. The more diverse you are the more marketable you will be.

We encourage students to produce one to three songs per project.

The studios are available to the students 24/7. All studio time is booked via a communal calendar.

No you do not need to have experience. TRCoA has designed its courses to give you all the tools you will need to go from complete novice to becoming a successful recording engineer/producer.