Why Study at Abbey Road Institute Los Angeles—What Are Your Career Options?

Abbey Road Institute Los Angeles offers a one-year Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering trains students in real hybrid studios, using large-format consoles and industry-standard DAWs alongside Grammy-winning mentors. Do you know that the skills you can acquire in this diploma program can lead to a variety of music production and sound engineering careers across industries like film, TV, gaming, and beyond?

While there are straightforward career paths including recording, mixing and mastering that are all part of music production, the Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering also gives you advanced skills that can lead to jobs in film and television, video gaming, with music labels, the music products industry, marketing and advertising, the broader technology industry, and more. The lecturers at Abbey Road Institute Los Angeles have or are also currently working in all these industries.

Let’s do a quick dive into the careers you can consider pursuing with the skills you can learn and refine while at Abbey Road Institute Los Angeles:

Audio and Music: While recording, mixing, and mastering are obvious career paths, the skills required to work in an established studio are those you can use working remotely and from home. If you are a songwriter or musician, being able to proficiently record your work for self-produced projects, and sharing it as you collaborate with other pros is critical. These same essential skills in recording and production can put you in roles working as a front of house and monitor engineer, part of the crew on tours, on Broadway and in theater, as a live event producer or production manager or a stage manager.

Film and Television: Many Abbey Road Institute graduates work as music and sound supervisors, advanced dialogue replacement (ADR) engineers, post production engineers, foley artists, orchestrators, composers, score producers, trailer music producers and composers, production assistants, sound designers, dialogue editors, and of course music and audio editors.

Video Games: All the film and television careers just mentioned apply to the video game industry. In game production, music editors work in systems and audio design and programming, and there are jobs in audio direction, sound design and supervision, voice-over coordination, and audio library management.

Music Labels: Positions working with labels include artists and repertoire (A&R), operations, music publishing and licensing, marketing, and sales. There are also careers working with performing rights organizations like ASCAP, BMI and SESAC.

Music Products:The music products industry (MI) you can work as a product manager, designer, or specialist. These companies also need marketers and skilled music and audio sales people. All MI manufacturers sell their products through dealers and system integrators that design and deploy studios, touring rigs, and other audio-visual (AV) systems for commercial facilities.  You can explore the diverse array of products companies at the MI trade organization’s site, NAMM.

Tech: Companies like Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and more, need product designers, music and audio engineers and curators, playlist editorial staff, and more.

Ready to explore career options? Take the next step by requesting a consultation with an Abbey Road Institute Los Angeles team member, or request our prospectus today.