Introduction to Studio Production Techniques

Part -Time (one Saturday)

Getting a start in the recording and producing industry has always been difficult - expensive studies, expensive hardware, closely guarded techniques...

This course opens up this world by allowing students access to a professional standard recording studio, allowing all students to participate in and experience band recording techniques using a variety of industry-standard equipment, including:

• Tac Scorpian 28/12/2 Analogue Desk
• Microphones by AKG, Shure, Neumann, Sennheiser, SE etc.
• Protools
• Mackie 24/8/2 Analogue mixing console

Standard multi-tracking techniques (track-laying, overdubbing, double-tracking etc.) will be demonstrated and explained, as well as the difference between various microphones, their different characteristics and uses (and where to put them). Mixing techniques will include the use of effects, stereo imaging, dynamic control and equalisation.

Student learning will be supported through the use of informative handouts, references to useful books and websites, and the up-to-date, in-depth industry knowledge of lecturers who regularly record, produce and perform.

For more information, please contact Grant Shalks, Short Course Manager, Bighead Studios, 020 8939 4647 or email:  grant.shalks@kingston-college.ac.uk