The Advanced Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering is an intensive one year programme that is taught across 48 weeks. The course is then divided into three terms, with each term building on the knowledge and skills you learnt in the previous term.
Using our progressive continuous learning method each module will cover historical and theoretical content alongside practical and technical skills so you develop a rounded knowledge and skill set within each area.
The breadth of the course means that alongside learning what equipment, techniques and microphones to use you also learn why you use them. This will help you develop your own expertise and understanding of how to create different sounds and effects.
Within the diploma, we cover all of the following subject areas: Acoustics, Computer, Copyright and Legal issues, Digital Audio Technology, Electronics and Analogue Equipment, General Business (Publishing & Marketing), Management Skills, Mastering, Microphones, Mixing and Critical Listening, Music Theory and Production, Production, Recording, Sound Theory, Studio Equipment and Signal Processing, Studio Etiquette and Musicianship.
Below you can browse through the three terms and see the breakdown of modules for each term.
Term Two covers the following subject areas:
Production and Music Theory
• Music Theory
• Arranging / Orchestration
• Practical Recording Workshops
• Practical Mixing Workshops
Audio Engineering Principles
• Analogue Audio
• Digital Audio
• Interconnectivity / Calibration
• Synthesis
• Sampling
• Acoustics
Audio Engineering Tools
• Studio Consoles
• Microphones
• Stereo Microphone Techniques
• Loudspeakers
• Amplifiers
• Outboard Processing Workshop
Digital Audio Workstations
• Pro Tools
• Logic Pro
• Ableton Live