The Department of Music's commercial music facilities consist of a state‐of‐the‐art control/mix room where students may learn hands‐on with contemporary recording equipment, as well as recording and lab spaces where students may practice technique and learn production workflows.
The control/mix room serves as the technical focal point of the Commercial Music, B.A. program and houses a recording console, outboard signal processing gear, multi‐channel playback through main and near field speakers, tie lines to various rooms in the facility to be able to record remotely, a video cue system to have line‐of‐sight to these remote rooms, and a multi‐camera video capture system to record classes for future playback and online course streaming.
Our remote rooms consist of acoustically‐treated spaces that enable live performances to be captured from the control room and/or remote workstations. These rooms are connected to the control/mix room via audio and video tie lines. Future enhancements to the facility may include the addition of a media lab with 12‐15 workstations which will allow students to work closely with production technology in a classroom environment.