Overview: Music Production courses

Trish Shaw
Published: 24 June 2020
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Here is on overview of courses offered at City Lit. Not all courses are currently scheduled, so please check the listing of currently available course dates and times, where you can also click through to the more detailed course outlines. Please contact the Music department if there is a course you're interested in that is not currently running.

Visit our Music technology equipment advice blog for detailed information about platforms, devices, programs and apps.

We hope you will be inspired to start – or continue – your creative journey!

Sound Art: explore creativity with sound, going beyond the traditional boundaries of music, using microphones, mixers, simple audio editing, and any sound-producing objects.

Home voice recording is for people who are working, or aiming to work, in voiceovers, podcasts or recording audio books or talking newspapers. The course covers the basics of how to record and edit yourself using your home digital audio equipment (DAW, mic, pop-guard etc.) 

Introduction to music production is for complete beginners to music technology, and covers the basics of audio recording, editing and production in a user-friendly program that can run on Mac or PC.

Music production with Logic: learn how to use Apple's industry standard software for audio recording and processing, MIDI composition and recording through to sophisticated functions such as ESX24 sampler, Flextime, drum replacement, parallel compression, and using busses. Logic is suitable for all kinds of audio projects, including music in any style, voiceover, radio, podcast and audiobook recordings.

Music production with Logic: advanced is a short course for experienced Logic users to develop and refine a personal project.

Mixing and music production techniques is for experienced software users. Using Logic in our Mac studio, develop your own projects to create professional sounding mixes by improving elements such as EQ, panning, compression, separation, depth of field and clarity.

Sampling, beat-making and synth programming covers from working with loops and patch phrasing to drum layering and programming commonly used synth sounds. Suitable for beginners.

Vocal recording: production techniques focusses on more complex elements of vocal recording, including mic and room set-up, reverb, tuning, and the psychology of recording singers. Good knowledge of  any standard audio software is needed on this course.

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