Note: Comia and Audio Institute of Texas (San Antonio Texas) is the only one on one Audio Engineering, Music Production School in the United States.

COMIA offers the only one-on-one training facility, Music Production, and Music Business Courses in the country. We have been teaching in a top recording studio located in San Antonio, Texas since 1995. We have a 20 year reputation of training engineers and producers that in their first year were working with Grammy artists.
COMIA is the quickly being recognized as best music production teaching facility in San Antonio, TX and across the world.

Chris Lieck, the CEO of COMIA, owner of three top tier music companies and Grammy winning CEO and producer, started the first Texas Music Audio Production and Music Business Courses for San Antonio College in 1995. Chris teaches the art of Audio Engineering and the Music Business to people with a passion for music and learning. Chris knows from experience that you can not learn this trade in a class room. You must have a 100% hands on working experience in the studio. Music Production is not simply a trade but an art form. You are not going to make money trying to learn by yourself, it will not work. The facts are against you. Out of 100 Billboard top hits, 98 were made by veteran engineer/producers that are educated. Out of 12.3 million so called “producers” or “bed room producers” 12.229 million don’t make over $1200 a year. The reason is that their work sounds below record industry standards.

The COMIA concept is that every student has a different learning curve; no two students learn the same way. The only way to fully immerse yourself into COMIA, learn this trade, and get the most of your money is to learn one on one. There is only you, your instructor, and the studio. This is of course less profitable for a company but more advantageous to you. COMIA is all about you and how you learn.

COMIA was featured in the Business Journal and our Business Classes are a set of classes that put you right in the middle of the business. If you have read the blogs or articles from industry leaders they all mention education. They don’t want to work with unqualified self-taught people. Their company has responsibilities to the investors. They want to work with real professionals that know the business and the art of working in real recording studios with real professionals. That is why they are making sure that the people they choose are educated or have worked in a real room with real professionals. ​​

Most home taught musicians don’t truly know the simple things like the true sounds of compression and how to EQ a kick drum or compress a snare drum. Some can’t even name a snare drum on a drum set. That would be quite embarrassing in a studio if you were one of those individuals. Join COMIA now and you will immediately hear your work getting better with each class. ​​