Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) BSc (Hons) / BMus (Hons)

University of Surrey

United Kingdom, Guildford

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University of Surrey

United Kingdom , Guildford

Key Facts

Program Level

Bachelor

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Course Code

J931

Campuses

Main Site

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake DeadlinesSeptember-2024

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Duration 4 year(s)

Tuition Fee

GBP 19,700 / year

Next Intake September-2024

Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) BSc (Hons) / BMus (Hons)

About

Our prestigious course is unique in the UK. We blend rigorous musical study, advanced investigation of audio engineering and mastery of sound-recording operation and practice.

Our BMus/BSc (Hons) Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister(C)) course is aimed at exceptional students who are primarily interested in engineering and music. You'll gain a breadth of experience, numerous practical skills, and invaluable initiative and adaptability that will prepare you for a career in any area of the professional audio industry.

Our graduates have gone on to amazing careers; from equipment design to film composition; from computer game programming to writing and producing hit songs; from designing broadcast studios to mixing the broadcast sound from Glastonbury.

This course received an overall satisfaction score of 100% in the National Student Survey 2022.

Our award-winning Professional Training placements prepare students for roles in industry. We deliver on jobs, too. We were named University of the Year for Graduate Employment in The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022.

Our course is made up of three areas of study:

Technical understanding of audio
Practical experience of recording
Musical theory and practice.

The technical aspects of our course cover the engineering components that contribute to modern sound recording and reproduction. This includes acoustics, electroacoustics, electronics, computer audio systems, sound synthesis and signal processing.

The practical elements of your studies will provide you with tuition in recording techniques and critical listening. You'll also apply technical theory by recording a wide range of music.

The musical components of the course will develop your analytical skills and provide the opportunity for detailed study of creative disciplines such as performance and composition.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

We do not accept school leaving qualifications from Jordan. However, if you do not meet the direct entry requirements for a course, you can apply to study an International Foundation Year programme at the University of Surrey International Study Centre. Upon successful completion, you can progress to an undergraduate degree at the University of Surrey.

Career

Facilities

Our Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) degree course benefits from a range of facilities. These are of the highest professional standards and are unmatched in the UK university sector.

The majority of the facilities are housed in our Performing Arts and Technology Studios building, which was built to strict acoustical specifications and fitted with equipment to match the best professional studios.

As a student on our course, you'll have access to three recording studios:

Studio one

A studio floor large enough to record a full orchestra and choir
A control room containing a Studer Vista digital console
A Pyramix multi-channel recording and editing system and a range of analogue and digital recorders.

Studio two

A smaller studio floor which is less reverberant and a control room containing a 56-channel SSL 9000K series console
A 48-channel Pro Tools HDX system
A 48-track hard disk-based recorder.

Studio three

A small overdub booth and a control room containing an AMS Neve 88D digital console
Pro Tools HDX with 64 channel MADI I/O
Pyramix Native with 64 channel MADI I/O
A range of outboard including Bricasti M7 reverb
Surround sound monitoring.

You'll also have access to five edit suites containing a range of analogue and digital recorders and digital audio workstations, including:

Pro Tools HD
Apple Logic Pro
Pyramix.

In addition to these facilities, you're able to use our extensive range of more than 100 microphones, our ITU BS-1116 standard listening room, 2 labs including Apple Mac Pro workstations, mobile recording vans and an assortment of measurement and test equipment.

Find out more information about the Institute of Sound Recordings facilities.

Careers and graduate prospects

We offer careers information, advice and guidance to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.

The quality of teaching, professional studio facilities and equipment, and the success of our graduates, mean that the Tonmeister course is highly regarded in the industry. Consequently, as a graduate you will enjoy unrivalled career prospects.

Our course has produced a stream of highly successful graduates during its long history, including Oscar, Grammy and Mercury Prize winners.

The broad range of subjects covered by our course will prepare you for work in any area of the audio industry. This can vary from musical roles through practical audio engineering to development of new audio technologies.

Our graduates have gone on to a wide range of careers, including:

Audio engineering for pop music, classical music, film, post-production, mastering and broadcast
Audio editing for film, television, radio, classical music and pop music
Specification, installation, operation and maintenance of live sound systems for music and theatre
Technical support for the recording industry - carrying out studio maintenance, equipment rental and technical installations
Manufacture of all types of professional and consumer audio equipment - research and development, technical support, product management, marketing and sales
Creative music roles, such as composition for film and television, freelance performing or sound design for computer games.

Recent graduates entered employment in roles such as:

Assistant Engineer, Abbey Road Studios
Assistant Engineer, Angel Studios
Technical Assistant, CTV Outside Broadcasts
Graduate Engineer, Hoare Lea
Recording & Mastering Engineer, K&A Productions
Studio Technician, Real World Studios
Studio Manager, Royal Academy of Music
Technical Co-ordinator, Ableton Loop.

In fact, given the large number of students that have graduated from our course, each sector of the audio industry that you can think of probably employs at least one of our graduates. View our much larger list of graduate jobs and awards our graduates have won.

Graduate

Hinako Omori

Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) BSc (Hons)

In the last few years, my main projects have been touring as a session musician/programmer and I've felt incredibly lucky to be able to explore cities in countries I haven't visited before, in the name of work.

Graduate

Jim Abbiss

Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister)

Jim Abbiss graduated with a BMus in Music and Sound Recording in 1988 and has enjoyed a very successful career as a music producer. He is known for his work on records including Arctic Monkeys' Mercury Music Prize-winning debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, and both of Adele's albums 19 and 21. He set up the Jim Abbiss Pop Recording Prize in 2014, awarded to the best recording by a final year Tonmeister student.