Program Overview

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Facilities

Our Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) degree course benefits from a range of facilities. These are of the highest professional standards and are unmatched in the UK university sector.

The majority of the facilities are housed in our Performing Arts and Technology Studios building, which was built to strict acoustical specifications and fitted with equipment to match the best professional studios.

As a student on our course, you’ll have access to three recording studios:

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Studio one

A studio floor large enough to record a full orchestra and choir

A control room containing a Studer Vista digital console

A Pyramix multi-channel recording and editing system and a range of analogue and digital recorders.

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Studio two

A smaller studio floor which is less reverberant and a control room containing a 48-channel AMS-Neve 88RS console

A 48-channel Pro Tools HDX system

A 48-track hard disk-based recorder.

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Studio three

A small overdub booth and a control room containing an AMS Neve 88D digital console

Pro Tools HDX with 64 channel MADI I/O

Pyramix Native with 64 channel MADI I/O

A range of outboard including Bricasti M7 reverb

Surround sound monitoring.

You’ll also have access to five edit suites containing a range of analogue and digital recorders and digital audio workstations, including:

Pro Tools HD

Apple Logic Pro

Pyramix.

In addition to these facilities, you’re able to use our extensive range of more than 120 microphones, our ITU BS-1116 standard listening room, two labs including Apple Mac Pro workstations, mobile recording vans and an assortment of measurement and test equipment.

Find out more information about the

Institute of Sound Recordings facilities

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Careers and graduate prospects

We offer

careers information, advice and guidance

to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.

The quality of teaching, professional studio facilities and equipment, and the success of our graduates, mean that the Tonmeister course is highly regarded in the industry. Consequently, as a graduate you will enjoy unrivalled career prospects.

Our course has produced a stream of highly successful graduates during its long history, including Oscar, Grammy and Mercury Prize winners.

The broad range of subjects covered by our course will prepare you for work in any area of the audio industry. This can vary from musical roles through practical audio engineering to development of new audio technologies.

Our graduates have gone on to a wide range of careers, including:

Audio engineering for pop music, classical music, film, post-production, mastering and broadcast

Audio editing for film, television, radio, classical music and pop music

Specification, installation, operation and maintenance of live sound systems for music and theatre

Technical support for the recording industry – carrying out studio maintenance, equipment rental and technical installations

Manufacture of all types of professional and consumer audio equipment – research and development, technical support, product management, marketing and sales

Creative music roles, such as composition for film and television, freelance performing or sound design for computer games.

Recent graduates entered employment in roles such as:

Assistant Engineer, Abbey Road Studios

Assistant Engineer, Angel Studios

Technical Assistant, CTV Outside Broadcasts

Embedded Software Engineer, DiGiCo

Graduate Engineer, Hoare Lea

Recording & Mastering Engineer, K&A Productions

Graduate Engineer, KEF Audio

Studio Technician, Real World Studios

Studio Manager, Royal Academy of Music

Technical Co-ordinator, Ableton Loop.

In fact, given the large number of students that have graduated from our course, each sector of the audio industry that you can think of probably employs at least one of our graduates. View our much larger

list of graduate jobs and awards

our graduates have won.

Graduate

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Hinako Omori

Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) BSc (Hons)

In the last few years, my main projects have been touring as a session musician/programmer and I’ve felt incredibly lucky to be able to explore cities in countries I haven’t visited before, in the name of work.

Graduate

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Jim Abbiss

Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister)

Jim Abbiss graduated with a BMus in Music and Sound Recording in 1988 and has enjoyed a very successful career as a music producer. He is known for his work on records including Arctic Monkeys' Mercury Music Prize-winning debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, and both of Adele's albums 19 and 21. He set up the Jim Abbiss Pop Recording Prize in 2014, awarded to the best recording by a final year Tonmeister student.