Ready to Take Your Audio Skills to the Next Level?
AMG is introducing a groundbreaking courses with a select number of world class producers and engineers. This unique accredited program prepares aspiring audio professionals for exciting careers in the music industry as Audio Engineers and Music Producers.

What you recieve with the courses:
Highlights
- 3, 5 or 7 - Day Courses
- Hands on Training
- World Class Legendary Facilities
- Exclusive Q&A
- World Class Instruction
- Accredited Certification
- Catered Lunch Every Day
- Graduation Ceremony
- Unprecedented Network Opportunities
- Discount codes for Hotels and Rental Cars
- Course Swag
- Leather bound Embossed Notebook




Jimmy Douglass
Jimmy Douglass, known as The Senator, stands as a testament to what can be achieved with passion and perseverance in the music industry. His extraordinary journey began in the early 1970s at Atlantic Records in New York City, where he started as a part-time tape duplicator while still in high school. There, he mastered the art of operating a custom-made 16-channel console and flourished under the mentorship of giants like Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler, and Ahmet Ertegun. Wexler’s encouragement launched him into his first studio session, where he recorded a demo for a budding band, leading to remarkable collaborations with legends such as Aretha Franklin, Hall & Oates, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Foreigner, Led Zeppelin, and AC/DC.
In the vibrant 1980s, Douglass honed his engineering skills and embraced production, working with iconic artists like The Rolling Stones, Slave, Odyssey, Roxy Music, and Gang of Four. As the 1990s began, he shifted focus to jingles and post-production, learning the art of efficiency and vibe, laying the groundwork for future success. His partnership with contemporary R&B/hip hop producer Timbaland began in 1994, where he served as the main engineer for over a decade, crafting timeless works with stars such as Aaliyah, Missy Elliot, Ginuwine, and Jay-Z.
As the millennium unfolded, Douglass continued to bring his artistic vision to life through projects with Timbaland, including collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Bjork, and Grammy-winning albums for Justin Timberlake. His impressive repertoire also includes work with Rob Thomas, Sean Paul, Kanye West, Ludacris, Al Green, John Legend, and Duran Duran. Today, Jimmy Douglass exemplifies the power of versatility and experience in the ever-evolving music landscape. Renowned for his innovative techniques, he encourages artists to push boundaries and explore new genres. His unique flair has introduced a raw edge to sound, infusing rock music with a heavy funk bass resonance. Douglass's remarkable journey and immense talent have secured his place as one of the most respected engineers and mixers in the industry, inspiring others to follow in his footsteps.
JULY 27 - AUG 2
Cost for course - $6,000

Sylvia Massy
Sylvia started in the San Francisco alt-punk scene in the eighties, fronting her own all-girl band, “Revolver.” They played at iconic North Beach nightclubs like the Mabuhay, On Broadway, the Stone, and the Chi-Chi Club. Their self-produced demos caused quite a stir in the underground music scene and led to other bands seeking Sylvia's expertise in the studio. This collaboration allowed her to work with notable Bay Area acts such as Tuxedomoon, Exodus, MDC, Verbal Abuse, Christian Death, the Beatnigs, Mojo Nixon, Skid Roper, Raw Power, Doggy Style, and the Adolescents.
In 1986, Sylvia co-produced an album for the Sea Hags alongside up-and-coming guitarist Kirk Hammett, who had recently joined Metallica. The success of this collaboration facilitated the Sea Hags’ signing with major label Chrysalis Records, prompting them to relocate to Los Angeles. Not wanting to miss out, Sylvia moved to Los Angeles and embarked on a serious music industry career.
Within two years, Sylvia ended up at Larrabee Sound, where she worked with a roster of artists including Prince, Paula Abdul, Big Daddy Kane, Julio Iglesias, Seal, and Aerosmith. Her big break came when she produced Green Jello's debut album, featuring the hit “Three Little Pigs.” This success opened the door for her to record the first two Tool albums for Zoo/BMG Records.
Later, Sylvia took on major projects through her association with Rick Rubin, producing System Of A Down’s debut album, Danzig’s “Lucifuge II,” the Geto Boys’ debut, Johnny Cash’s “Unchained” album, Donovan’s “Sutras,” as well as contributions to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, and Tom Petty’s “She’s The One.”

AUGUST 10 - 16
Cost for course - $6,000

Eric Schilling
Eric Schilling is a music mixer and broadcast music mixer. His awards include: 5 GRAMMY Awards, 15 Latin GRAMMY Awards, 7 Prime Time Emmy Awards, Armstrong Major Broadcast Award and more. At 19 years old, Eric became an assistant recording engineer at the Record Plant Recording Studios in Sausalito, CA working with Sly Stone, Joe Cocker and Fleetwood Mac. In 1977 he relocated to Florida to become an engineer at Bayshore Recording Studios where he worked with Jimmy Buffet, Pat Travers, The Outlaws among other legends. While working at Bayshore Recording in 1982, he met Gloria Estefan and their engineer-artist journey started, working together on all of her groundbreaking mega-hit albums and singles. His recent projects have included Immersive mixes for Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Bee Gees, Earth Wind and Fire, and the “God Of War” game soundtrack. His recent broadcast work includes the GRAMMY Awards, the Latin GRAMMYs, Adele’s “One Night Only”, and Elton John’s “Live from Dodger Stadium”. Eric is partner in media HYPERIUM studios, and is nominated in 2023 for his immersive mixes of “Divine Tides” by Stewart Copeland and Ricky Kej.

JULY 17 - 21
Cost for course - $5,000

George Massenburg
George Massenburg has participated (individually and collaboratively) in over four hundred records over the past 45 years. His work includes recordings of Earth, Wind & Fire, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Lyle Lovett, Aaron Neville, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Natasha Bedingfield, Herbie Hancock, Arlo Guthrie, Billy Joel, the Dixie Chicks and many more. His studio work has gained him international recognition and four Grammys (including the Grammy for Technical Achievement in 1998, at the time making him one of only seventeen individuals to receive that honor) as well as numerous Mix Magazine TEC Awards. In 1988 he also won the Academy of Country Music Record of the Year Award. George has designed, built and managed several recording studios, and has contributed to the acoustical and architectural design of many other studios, including George Lucas’ Skywalker Sound.
In 1982, he founded George Massenburg Labs, a pioneering audio electronics company that has released an extensive range of innovative recording technologies, all based on his original designs. George was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music by Boston’s esteemed Berklee College of Music. Regularly published in professional journals and trade magazines worldwide, George Massenburg received the Gold Medal from the Audio Engineering Society in 2008. In 2013 he was awarded a patent # 8,510,361 in the US (as well as other countries) for a variable exponent averaging detector and dynamic range controller. He is also a member of the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress and an advisor to the Committee for Library Information Resources. George serves as the Chief Technical Officer of META (the Music Engineering Technical Alliance), a strategic union of music producers and engineers dedicated to the highest standards of audio and delivery of music.
Currently he is an Associate Professor of Sound Recording at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and a Visiting Lecturer at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston and Valencia Spain, and the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN. He and his wife, Cookie Rankin, live in Montreal, Quebec.

AUG 20 - 24
Cost for course - $5,000

Chuck Ainlay
Producer/Engineer, Chuck Ainlay has over thirty five hundred credits to his name, including work with legendary and defining country music artists such as; George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Vince Gill, Lady A, Steve Earle, Lee Ann Womack, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris and The Chicks.
Chuck has placed his distinctive production and engineering stamp on projects with more mainstream and diverse artists such as Dire Straits and nearly the entire solo career of Mark Knopfler as well as Peter Frampton, Taylor Swift, Lionel Richie, Ann Wilson, James Taylor, Jewel, Bob Seger, Pentatonix and Sheryl Crow.
His work in surround mixing has resulted in ground-breaking projects such as; the 25th anniversary remix of Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive and the Grammy award winning 20th anniversary remix of the Dire Straits album Brothers In Arms. Recent immersive mixes include George Strait’s Pure Country, Troubadour and Ocean Front Property albums as well as Lyle Lovett’s 12th of June.
He is currently serving as one of the Nashville chapter Trustees for the Recording Academy. He’s served numerous terms on the Nashville board as Governor. He has chaired the Nashville P&E Wing and is the current Co-Chair of the Recording Academy’s P&E Wing, National Steering committee. Chuck has been a coauthor of the majority of the P&E Wing Guidelines and recommendations. Chuck was also on the Board of Directors for the Country Music Association. Belmont University awarded Chuck with the Robert E. Mulloy Award of Excellence.

Cost for course - $6,000
SEPT 14 - 20

Joe Zook
Joe Zook began his career in music as a musician in Boulder, Colorado, playing guitar in bands while he was in elementary school and junior high. As a 16 year old employee at Robb's Music in Boulder, Joe worked for store credit and amassed as much gear as his hourly toil could afford him. He moved to Austin, Tx. at age 19 where he began playing guitar for the band House in Orbit.
The group toured for a time, but Joe's heart was in recording. After attending recording classes and landing an internship at a local studio, he recorded mixed everything from world beat and jazz records to ESPN fishing shows and political ads.
From Austin he moved to Miami where he embarked on a degree from the acclaimed University of Miami, where he studied music theory, jazz, music business, and digital audio. He played guitar in the Stevie Wonder Ensemble and the James Brown Ensemble. He was also a founding member of 'Cane Records, and producer of two records for them. ('Cane Records is still thriving today)
In 1997 he made his way to Los Angeles, where he got a gig as a runner at well-regarded Conway Studios. Six months later, he began working as a second engineer at the legendary studios Sunset Sound and Sunset Sound Factory. It was there that he assisted Tchad Blake and Mitchell Froom on multiple projects, and also learned the craft from Quincy Jones, Don Was, Neal Avron, Dave Sardy, Rich Costey, Joe Barresi, Andrew Scheps, John Paterno, Niko Bolas, Val Garay, T-Bone Burnett, Tony Visconti, Greg Wells, Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnampf, John Fields, Greg Fiddleman, Jim Scott, David Khane, Craig Street, Dave Rideau, Raphael Saadiq, Dave Way, Geoff Gillette, Dori Caymmi, Glen Ballard, and many other talented producers and engineers.
After four years at Sunset, he met iconoclastic producer Jack Joseph Puig. The two struck up a professional relationship that took Joe through nearly two years of record making, primarily as Pro Tools engineer- though he shared engineering and recording duties on JJP productions. Joe worked with artists such as Mick Jagger, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, Vanessa Carlton, No Doubt, and dozens more.
In 2002, Joe began free-lancing. Since then, he has mixed and/or recorded albums totaling worldwide sales of over 50 million (see discography). Joe is also a proud father and husband.

SEPT 25 - 29
Cost for course - $5,000

Elliot Scheiner
Elliot Scheiner is among some of the most legendary pop engineers in the industry. He is known for his work on Van Morrison‘s Moondance, Steely Dan‘s Aja, Gaucho, and The Royal Scam, Chaka Khan‘s I Feel For You, Rickie Lee Jones‘ Pirates, Bruce Hornsby‘s The Way It Is, and The Eagles‘ Hell Freezes Over.
Elliot just produced and mixed Madeleine Peyroux‘s latest album, Let’s Walk (Thirty Tigers).
Some of Elliot’s most recent highlights include working as a sound engineer on the soundtrack for the Broadway musical “A Beautiful Noise,” producing, recording, and mixing the soundtrack for the off-Broadway Florida musical “Knoxville,” producing and recording the soundtrack for the Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s “Caroline, or Change,” mixing Bobby Weir’s Bobby Weir and the Wolf Bros. Live in Colorado Vol. 2, and mixing Trey Anastasio‘s Live Solo Acoustic show at Carnegie Hall.
Elliot has 29 Grammy nominations and 8 Grammy wins. Additionally, he has one Emmy (Outstanding Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming as Music Mixer for History of The Eagles Showtime special), three TEC Awards, and a membership in the TEC Hall of Fame alongside George Lucas.

AUG 24 - 30
Cost for course - $6,000

Frank Filipetti
Six-time Grammy winner Frank Filipetti is a world-renowned music producer, engineer and mixer. Born in Bristol, Connecticut, and based in New York since 1971, Frank was one of the first engineers to embrace digital mixing. His early credits include his first number one album, Foreigner’s “Agent Provocateur” which included the single “I Want to Know What Love Is”; Foreigner’s “Inside Information” which he also co-produced; KISS’s, “Lick It Up”; Carly Simon’s “Coming Around Again”, The Bangles’ “Eternal Flame”, Courtney Love’s “Celebrity Skin”, and Rod Stewart’s “The Great American Songbook” Volumes 1 and 2.
Active in film and theatre as well, Frank’s work as producer, engineer, and mixer earned the Aida Broadway Original Cast Album a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2001, and he has since produced Wicked, Spamalot, Disney’s Aladdin, The Book of Mormon, and Gigi. His work in film includes the soundtracks for Mike Nichols’ “Working Girl”, and “Postcards From the Edge”; “The Pirates of Penzance” with Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline; Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe”; Disney’s “Enchanted”; Pixar’s “Cars”, and “August Rush”.
Frank’s full discography is available online here and in other formats by request.
In addition to his recording and producing talents, Frank has been busy since the early 1980’s designing the acoustics for all three Right Track rooms in NY, and in 1999 Frank joined with Simon Andrews to design and build New York City’s premier orchestral recording studio. The result, Studio A509, was one of the most highly praised sonic achievements in a city known for incredible studios. In 2005 Frank became a founding partner of METAlliance, a collaborative community of globally-recognized audio engineers and producers that works alongside technology manufacturers to ensure the highest standards of audio production.

OCT 5 - 11
Cost for course - $6,000
Information

EPIC Master Class Essential is for studio engineers and producers
looking to enhance and grow their careers by learning the latest in
a fully immersive, no fluff course.
EPIC Essential is $6,000 for a fully accredited certified 7 day,
hands-on class in a state of the art facility.

Hands on
In “hands-on” supervised recording sessions, our Music Producers and Audio Engineers will teach students advanced techniques of Engineering and Music Production and organize the moving parts on a recording project.
We believe that experience is key to true learning. With the AMG Master Class, students get their hands dirty. With direction and in depth comprehensive guidance, students will get a real sense of being in the producer's seat

Techniques & Processes
From room acoustics, setting up the recording platform and studio for live tracking sessions, (with a live band), analog and digital recording, using the industry standard Pro Tools HD (with the latest software processing plugins). Students will learn:
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PROPER MICROPHONE CHOICE
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PLACEMENT TECHNIQUES
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SIGNAL ROUTING AND PATCHING
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EQ, MIC-PRE’S, ANALOG AND DIGITAL EFFECTS
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COMPRESSION
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EDITING TECHNIQUES
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ADVANCED RECORDING PRACTICES
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AUTOMATION
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MIXING
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MASTERING
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