The Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering is an intensive one year program which 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 the courses for each term.
Logic Pro teaches students to create and administer sessions with Apple Logic Pro. They are tasked with creating tracks and navigate sessions using different time scales; search, examine and import audio files; identify the different windows and their components; perform basic edits; use ‘insert’ and ‘send’-based plugins; use virtual instruments; program basic MIDI based tracks; use different strategies to control the dynamic range of audio material; apply automation; process the output bus; export / bounce mixes; set Logic Pro up for a recording session; select the most appropriate mode for specific recording purposes; edit recorded material using Logic Pro’s Flex Time; edit (tune) vocals using Logic Pro; recall and use advanced Logic Pro ‘tips and tricks’.