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Department Overview

The Music industry offers lots of exciting opportunities and studying with us will not only give you the competitive edge, but will also provide you with the practical skillset and experience required to make the all-important jump into employment.

Jobs in this industry are expected to grow and as a Music graduate, you could go into a variety of careers. Could you see yourself working as a studio session musician, performer or composer? What about a tour manager, music promoter or sound engineer? These are just some of the exciting roles a Music course could lead to.

Our custom-built Music Centre at our Poole campus is kitted out with recording studios, technology suites, practice rooms, rehearsal rooms, equipment and instruments.  Higher Education Music students at the college have their own dedicated HE Music Studio.

Technical Specifications:

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

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