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If you want access to the latest recording equipment and facilities, then you’ve come to the right place!

No matter what part of the music industry excites you - performance or production, we have you covered. Our industry standard recording facilities rival professional studios, with excellent technician support, and staff who are professional musicians and experts in their fields. We have strong links with the music industry and with esteemed partners such as Arts University Bournemouth.

Our subject specialist music staff also work in the music industry and write, record and perform live on a regular basis. You’ll have access to top tier facilities: a pro-level Performance Space, large Rehearsal Rooms, Practice Rooms, Grand Pianos, Recording Studios and Music Technology Suites. You’ll collaborate and network with fellow talented musicians on external concerts and gigs. Higher Education Music students at the college have their own dedicated HE Music Studio.

Our Higher Education Studio has the following technical equipment:

Studio 1 gear list

Control Room

  • Audient ASP8040HE large format recording console- 24 channel 8 bus
  • Antelope Audio Orion 32+ Gen4 AD/DA audio interface
  • Apple Mac Studio M2 Max 12 core, 64 GB RAM and 27” Studio display
  • Protools Studio and Cubase Pro 14
  • Genelec 8050B monitors
  • Adam A77H monitors
  • Avanton active Mixcube monitor
  • Dbx160A compressor/limiter
  • TL Audio Ivory 2 5052 stereo valve compressor
  • TL Audio Ivory 5050 valve pre-amplifier and compressor
  • Lexicon PCM90 reverberator

Live Room

  • Schiedmayer grand piano
  • Moog Little Phatty Stage II synthesizer
  • Pearl Mahogany Classic limited edition drum kit
  • Marshall DSL100H amplifier head
  • Marshall 1960AV 4x12 cab
  • Fender Hotrod Deville 410 III combo
  • Vox AC15 C1 combo
  • TC Electronic BG 250 115 Toneprint bass amp