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.
Mastering teaches students to appraise the quality of mastering applied to audio materials; recognize the tools used for the mastering of audio content; and utilize these tools commonly used for the mastering of audio content. This includes monitoring considerations; audio file editing and noise reduction; equalization techniques; dynamics processing; serial, parallel and multi-band processing; compression techniques; control and balance of stereo image; stereo L-R vs M-S processing; use of reverb and harmonic enhancers in mastering; limiters and levels for CD, vinyl and streaming platforms; loudness, LUFS and dBs; as well as dithering.