Comprehensive Academy
In our students' words.
“Being from a songwriting and artist background, I was keen to learn the production side. The instructors were amazing, and I felt they explained things in a language I could understand. Now I am zipping around it almost as comfortably as I am when writing a song!”
Natasha Bedingfield
Instructors
Before you enrol.
Your own completed project, a curated portfolio of your work, and a certificate - the year is built around what you are making, not around a syllabus you sit through.
Never more than ten students, so every session is hands-on and every project gets attention.
Yes. Every session runs in person and live online at the same time, so you join whichever suits you and can switch between them.
No. The Academy opens at the fundamentals and builds through production, sound design, mixing and mastering to the business side - self-taught producers use it to fill the gaps, beginners use it as the whole road.
The tuition for this campus is stated on this page, just above the call to action, with the registration fee and the early-booking discount.
A year, at 360 hours of instruction. The schedule skips the major holidays, so the year is designed to be finishable alongside a life.
Ready when you are.
InquireThe Chord Track
One place to write the harmony of your song. Put the chords here and every Session Player in the project follows them - change a chord and the bass, the…
Read →Hybrid Reverb
Convolution and algorithmic reverb in one device, blended. Real spaces for the early reflections, a synthetic tail behind them - and why that combination sounds better than either alone.
Read →Comping: Take Lanes
Record the part ten times, then build the best version out of all of them. Take lanes, comping, and the shortcuts that make it fast.
Read →The Max for Live Utilities Worth Knowing
You do not need to open Max to use Max. Six bundled devices - Envelope Follower, LFO, Shaper, Expression Control, Note Echo and MPE Control - that do things Live cannot do otherwise.
Read →Intro to Mixing
Mixing a project involves balancing the different parts of the project and blending them into a cohesive whole. Most of this is managed in the Mixer view,…
Read →M4L Devices: M4L Drum Synths
DS Clang consists of two separate tones, white noise and a filter, allowing you to create a variety of cowbell, clave and noise percussion sounds.
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