Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister)

Why choose this course
• Our Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister®) BMus/BSc (Hons) course is aimed at exceptional students who are primarily interested in engineering and music.

• You’ll gain a breadth of experience, numerous practical skills, and invaluable initiative and adaptability that will prepare you for a career in any area of the professional audio industry.

• Our graduates have gone on to amazing careers: from equipment design to film composition; from computer game programming to writing and producing hit songs; from designing broadcast studios to mixing the broadcast sound from Glastonbury.

• £1.7m department facilities expansion and improvement, including custom-built performance and recording spaces with three studios, a multi-purpose concert/recital room, an immersive multi-channel speaker performance space, five edit rooms, 11 practice rooms and brand-new synth lab.

What you will study
Our course is made up of three areas of study:

• Technical understanding of audio

• Practical experience of recording

• Musical theory and practice.

The technical aspects of our course cover the engineering components that contribute to modern sound recording and reproduction. This includes acoustics, electroacoustics, electronics, computer audio systems, sound synthesis and signal processing.

The practical elements of your studies will provide you with tuition in recording techniques and critical listening. You’ll also apply technical theory by recording a wide range of music.

The musical components of the course will develop your analytical skills and provide the opportunity for detailed study of creative disciplines such as performance and composition.