Island Production Academy

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Your Gateway to

Musical Freedom

Go from rough home demos to release‑ready songs with step‑by‑step training, monthly mix competitions, and personal coaching built for independent artists.

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Make music you're proud of...

Without needing a big studio budget

If you're an independent artist recording at home and any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place.

  • You've got song ideas, but your recordings don't sound like the tracks you love

  • By the time you get set up for recording, you've lost the inspiration because it's taken you so long

  • You bounce between random YouTube tutorials and still feel confused

  • You're not sure if it's your gear, your room, or your skills holding you back

  • You want honest feedback from real producers, not just comments online

Start your 14-day free trial and fix your home recording setup step-by-step →

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How we Help turn bedroom setups...

into release-ready studios

From the very beginning, we've been committed to helping artists get the absolute most out of their home studios. We help you:

  • Turn rough demos into polished productions

  • Turn confusion into a systematic process to pump out mix after mix

  • Eliminate technical confusion so that you can focus on being creative

  • Create music that you're proud of without the overwhelm most home studio owners experience

We have a full suite of training available so that you can crush your production goals, and get the feedback and accountability you need.

Learn The Essentials of Music Production

Short, focused trainings show you exactly how to record, edit and mix at home - without overwhelm.

Practice With Real Projects

Apply what you learn to your own songs and our monthly mixing comps with prizes and feedback.

Get Personalised Feedback

When you're ready, go deeper through our 10-Week Home Recording Bootcamp or 1-to-1 Coaching.

Choose the level of support that

fits your music right now

Island Production Academy Membership

Bite-sized trainings, mini-courses, and monthly mixing competitions to help you steadily improve your home recordings.

  • On-demand videos ranging from 5 minutes to lessons to 1-2 hour mini-courses

  • Monthly mixing competitions with real gear prizes

  • Private community of home-recording artists to inspire, support, and collaborate

10-Week Home Recording Bootcamp

An intensive, step-by-step 10-week program to take one of your songs from idea to a fully recorded and mixed, release-ready track home.

  • Weekly curriculum covering recording, mixing and mastering

  • Clear assignments and deadlines to keep you moving

  • Includes 3 months of Academy Membership to keep you learning

One-On-One Music Production Coaching

Asynchronous, personalised coaching for artists who want direct feedback on their work and a curriculum tailored to their goals.

  • Custom learning plan and curriculum for your goals

  • Feedback at every step on your recordings and mixes

  • Flexible schedule that fits around your life

  • Accountability to keep moving forward

Trusted by artists around australia who want

studio-quality records from home

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Your Music Deserves

To Sound Like a Real Record

From confused bedroom producer to working with artists around the world

Hey, I’m Joseph Cheek. I started exactly where you are now: recording in a tiny home studio, frustrated that my mixes never sounded like the records I loved.

I was scared to make the wrong moves with EQs, and terrified of compressors.

For years I bounced between random YouTube videos, reading magazine articles, spent thousands on plugins I didn’t need, and still couldn’t get my songs to sound ‘finished.’ I knew the music was there, but the sound wasn’t.

So I went all‑in. I paid to learn directly from Grammy‑award‑winning producers, sat in real sessions, and asked every ‘stupid’ question I could think of. It was the fastest way to level up my ears, understanding, and workflow. But it was also insanely expensive and out of reach for most independent artists.

Today, through Island Recording Studios, I work with independent artists from around the world on projects that started as rough voice notes and ended up on playlists and radio stations worldwide. 

Island Production Academy is my way of taking everything I learned over years from those world‑class mentors and studio sessions, and packaging it into a clear path you can follow from your own home… for a fraction of what I had to pay to figure it out the hard way.


If you’re serious about making music you’re proud to release, but you don’t want to waste years guessing, I built this for you.

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FAQs

Frequently Asked

Questions

Q: Do I need expensive gear to benefit from this?

You don't need expensive gear, but you do need some gear if you are going to benefit from our training. At a minimum, we recommend having an audio interface, a DAW, and a decent pair of headphones. If you want to record vocals or acoustic instruments, you will also need at least one microphone.

Download our Gear Guide for our recommendations across a range of budgets.

Q: I'm a beginner - is the Academy right for me?

Absolutely! We offer training all the way from when you're just starting out, through to advanced techniques for those looking to really take things to a professional level.

Our academy membership has a range of topics - from DAW intro courses to specific recording and mixing techniques.

Our 10-Week Home Recording Bootcamp is suitable for beginners through to intermediate producers who are looking for a comprehensive program that covers all of the foundations of recording and mixing, moving through to advanced mixing techniques. You will also get direct access to us through the bootcamp portal for any questions about the coursework, along with weekly coaching calls to ask any questions you have in real time.

Q: What's the difference between the Academy Membership and the Bootcamp?

The Academy Membership is a bunch of one-off trainings and mini-courses on specific topics. You can choose your own learning path with these to suit your current needs. You will also have access to our monthly mixing competitions, where you can win gear!

The Home Recording Bootcamp is a 10-week program that sequentially steps you through the foundations of recording and mixing, moving through to advanced mixing techniques. We've mapped out the exact things you need to know to shave off the first 5 years of your music production education via trial and error and piecing things together from YouTube.

You'll get a full suite of worksheets, checklists, and cheatlists so that you always know what the next step in your process is and avoid going around in circles and never finishing anything.

Sound good? Apply for the bootcamp today!

Q. How does the 14-day free trial work?

We want you to see how great our trainings are so that you can start benefiting immediately, without having to hand over a single cent.

Just click the link to start your 14-day free trial, and you'll gain instant access to everything inside of our Academy Membership.

After the 14-day free trial is over, you will be billed monthly for your academy membership, until you decide you no longer need our help.

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