MSc Audio Engineering
Postgraduate Certificate / Master's Degree
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ABOUT
Why choose Herts?
Excellent reputation: Ranked 1st as best creative media and entertainment school in the UK (Rookies, 2021)
Teaching excellence: Delivered by Bruce Aisher, a music producer, songwriter, composer, remixer, sound designer and technology journalist with featured work in over 100 commercially released tracks (including a US Billboard Club Chart No.1) and on TV programmes such as ‘CSI’ and ‘Top Gear’, and products by Apple, Clavia, and Native Instruments.
Employment prospects: Graduates work as exciting composers, producers, technician managers, technical editors, and sound engineers for organisations such as Apple, Channel 4, and Creative Assembly.
Entry requirements and key information
About the course
- explore the most advanced studio techniques, technologies and processes at the forefront of current music production
- unleash your creative potential and cultivate your own individual style to produce original arrangements, mixes, re-mixes and mastering work
- deliver comprehensive solutions and support for live sound in a variety of performance settings
- on this postgraduate degree you will create your own A/V interfaces, plug-ins, and programming codes.
Why choose this course?
Music and Sound Technology in Audio Engineering is designed to provide industry-relevant post-graduate education aimed at forming creative professional for the audio, production, and post-production industry, who wish to pursue careers as creative Audio Engineers within recording, production or live sound settings. Students take hands-on sessions in the University’s state-of-the-art facilities, including a top-class SSL studio, guided by dedicated tutors with significant industry experience. The postgraduate curriculum covers all the most relevant and current skills of the field, and sessions and assessment are designed to reproduce, as far as possible and appropriate, the realities of the commercial environment.
We are one of the largest music department in the UK, offering a rich portfolio of forward-looking music programmes uniquely designed to develop the most relevant skills in the current industry. The environment is friendly and supportive, and students benefit from being part of a large community of creatives in all fields: from film, to new media, performance, and fine arts.
Our top-class facilities include:
- a large recording studio featuring a 32-fader Neve Genesys Black analogue mixing console (with Neve 1073 mic-preamps + 88R and 1084 EQ) / 64-channel Protools HD MADI system / PMC IB2S-A midflield monitors / Neumann surround monitoring / two racks of high-end analogue and digital outboard compression, EQ and effects (Neve, Focusrite, Drawmer, 1176, LA2A, Pultec) / UAD DSP processing with full suite of plug-ins
- medium-size studio featuring a Neve Genesys / Protools HD system with RedNET and Neumann 5.1 monitoring
- acoustically-treated, surround-equipped, iMAc mix/production spaces with Slate Raven Mti touchscreen control and REDNet, and Kawai acoustic pianos
- live recording booth/spaces
- monitoring spaces for surround sound mixing
- dubbing suite for A/V work (foley, ADR, etc.)
- dual-monitor Apple iMac labs (each with a large range of s/w – including Logic, Ableton Live, Reason, ProTools, MaxMSP, Native Instruments Komplete, East West Composer Cloud)
- a state-of-the-art performance venue with Soundcraft vi1 console and full RedNET integration
- outboard including Digidesign Pro Tools, Lexicon TLAudio, TC Electronic and Focusrite
- top-quality dynamic, condenser and ribbon microphones, including Soundfield, Neumann, AKG, Coles, Shure, Audio-Technica, Beyerdynamic.
What will I study?
Lecture, seminars and tutorials are typically scheduled over two consecutive days a week, plus some extra sessions for particular workshops, performance and recording. In addition to scheduled sessions, students are expected to engage in continuous self-directed study and studio practice.
At the University of Hertfordshire, we want to make sure your time studying with us is as stress-free and rewarding as possible. We offer a range of support services including; student wellbeing, academic support, accommodation and childcare to ensure that you make the most of your time at Herts and can focus on studying and having fun.
Fees 2022
UK Students
Full time
- £9750 for the 2022/2023 academic year
Part time
- £810 per 15 credits for the 2022/2023 academic year
EU Students
Full time
- £14750 for the 2022/2023 academic year
Part time
- £1230 per 15 credits for the 2022/2023 academic year
International Students
Full time
- £14750 for the 2022/2023 academic year
Part time
- £1230 per 15 credits for the 2022/2023 academic year
*Tuition fees are charged annually. The fees quoted above are for the specified year(s) only. Fees may be higher in future years, for both new and continuing students. Please see the University’s Fees and Finance Policy (and in particular the section headed “When tuition fees change”), for further information about when and by how much the University may increase its fees for future years.
Deadlines
15 January
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