Music Technology resources

Music Technology resources include fully equipped studios, mastering and editing suites and the teaching labs.  Music Technology facilities in use.

• Music Technology student to perform in front of 1,200 rockers at a top London nightclub
• richlife chosen to promote British music abroad
• Watch richlife rock Birmingham's NEC

Studios one, two and three:

• Allen and Heath GL3300 40 channel analogue desk
• Alesis Adat HD24 24 track Hard disk Recorder
• 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System
• Outboard rack with patchbay including:
     Compressors/gates/limiters/expanders
     Lexicon MPX effects unit
     Alesis Midiverb effects unit
• Apple Macintosh Mac Pro computer running:
     Logic 8 pro
     Cubase
     Nuendo 4    
     Pro Tools LE 7.4
     Reason 3.0.5
     Sound Forge 6
     Various industry standard plugins

Each Live room for Studios one, two and three:

• Yamaha Stage Custom Drumkit
• Laney bass amp
• Line 6 guitar amp
• Fender 212 guitar amp
• Maudio keys66
• Laney PA

Mastering Room:

• Avalon Tube Compressor
• TLA Valve parametric EQ
• BM15 monitors
• 5.1 Surround Sound System
• PC Running:
     Cubase SX3
     Nuendo 4
     Sound Forge 6
     Reason 3.0.5
     Waves Platinum Bundle
     UAD Powered Plugins

O1V Room:

• Yamaha O1V96 V2 Digital Desk
• Alesis Adat HD24 24 track hard disk recorder
• A range of synthesisers, various models, both outboard and keyboard based ncluding Doepfer Modular Analogue Synthesiser
• PC Running:
     Cubase SX3
     Nuendo 4
     Sound Forge 6
     Reason 3.0.5
     Waves Platinum Bundle
     UAD Powered Plugins

 Two Project booths:

• PC Running:
     Cubase SX3
     Pro Tools M-powered 7.4
     Sound Forge 6
     Reason 3.0.5
     Waves Platinum Bundle
     UAD Powered Plugins

Rooms D8a, D8b and E1 have:

• Pro Tools HD2
• Native Instruments KompleteControl|24
• 5.1 Genelec Monitoring
• Lexicon MPX1 Digital Effects
• TL Audio 5150 Valve EQ and Compressor

In room E2:

• Stienburg Nuendo
• Avid Express Pro
• Pro Tools LE
• Sony Sound Forge
• Avalon analogue EQ and Compressor
• 5.1 Genelec Monitoring
• Alesis HD24 Hard disk recorder
• Universal Audio DSP cards
• Yamaha O1V96 Digital Mixer
• TC Electronics Finalyzer
• 48" plasma screen 
• Professional grading monitor
• DVD-A player
• Dolby Digital Surround Encoder