声音工程与制作-理学士(荣誉)

[00:00:02]发言者1从工作室到主套间和工作区。我将向你们展示在波士顿大学学习声音是什么样的。这是音乐厅的控制室。我们在这里做了很多环绕立体声，并在音乐学院录制了令人惊叹的布拉德肖大厅。这就是SSL二元性桌面。这是音乐学院里最大的一个。在这里，我们可以录制布拉德肖大厅以及5.1环绕立体声的所有内容。现在我要带你们参观皇家伯明翰音乐学院的一些录音室。我们去一录音棚看看吧。这里有一个控制室，它通向客厅。 You can record bands of all sizes. And again, on our SSL desk. We have it fitted with ProTools and Logic, Ableton and those that I can't even name off top of my head. But Play us out...

[00:01:23]说话人1干杯，伙计。我们去客厅看看吧。这里是我们最大的客厅之一。这是我们最大的记录空间之一。我们的录音室里有架子鼓三角钢琴和迷你三角钢琴。我们在这里有施坦威，在其他录音室里有波士顿钢琴，在音乐厅里有雅马哈钢琴。我们有一系列很棒的麦克风，从AKG的到RODE的，Aston Spirits，随着时间的推移，它们变得越来越好。所以我们不止有一个录音室，我们有多个录音室，他们在音响和设备上都是独一无二的。所以我们有相当多的设备和不同的外舱来满足你的音乐偏好。我们与皇家伯明翰音乐学院的学生也有着非常独特的关系。 So, whether it's recording foley or mastering an EP, BCU really gives you the experience you need for the working world. So this is the mastering suite. This is where you take your recordings and make them into masterpieces. So here we've got state of the art speakers, we've got Bowers and Wilkins. We've also got amazing outboard gear from Maselec. We've also got SSL control servers and this whole thing is fitted out with a PRISM audio interface. But my favourite part of this entire room is the tape machine. So over here we have a Studer tape machine. There's not a lot around and we're one of the only universities is to have one. I myself have mastered many of my tracks on tape and it just adds that little antique-y sound and makes it quite clean and also rough at times, depending how you want to master your track. So this is the edit suite. This is where we get to kind of fine tune and make rough edits of our tracks. So as you can see here, this is ProTools and one of our most kind of common editing tool softwares, but we can also record in this facility. So we've got some Focusrite gear, Audient gear as well as ways to make beats. So we've got some crazy synths and sequences that you get to play around with, plug into the system and mix, make your own music really. So next I'm going to show you the Mac Labs. That's where we spend most of our time learning software and kind of having our mini lectures there. So let's go check it out. So this is the Mac lab. We have two of these in the Conservatoire. We have Macs in both, MIDI keyboards and audio interfaces. Here, we'll kind of have 1 to 1 sessions or smaller workshops with your lecturers learning different software like ProTools, Reaper, Ableton and Logic. One thing to note about BCU is the lecturers. They are very passionate about music technology. They give you work opportunities and experiences. Like myself, I had an opportunity to go to the Royal Shakespeare Company for a day and shadow the head sound engineer there, So it's very impressive with how much they care about their students and how much they're willing to give you. Now let's go tour the Millennium Point facilities. Welcome to Millennium Point. Over here we have even more studio space. So in this one we're still fitted out with SSL desks. We've also got a bunch of outboard gears. You've got good pressers, limiters, anything to help you make the best production possible. We've even got some unique acoustic equipment. So over in the studio we have a Helmholtz resonator made by one of our students, which I'll show you now. So over here is a Helmholtz resonator where frequencies and air will resonate in the cavities here. So certain frequencies we like and don't like will resonate, making the space more acoustically appropriate. So welcome to The Orchard - another room filled with Macs where we get to learn ProTools, Logic, Reaper for video games, Matlab for coding. In your third year you get to sound design and collaborate with video game students and make your own video game. We also do a lot of experimental acoustic stuff. So over here we have the drum tank where we will run frequency sweeps through a room, learn how frequencies interact with the acoustics of the space, and just kind of learn how sound reacts to a room. There's a lot of experimental stuff we get to do in our degree, as well as producing and as well as studio time. So together, they kind of go hand in hand and you really learn the whole science of sound. So I hope you enjoyed our tour today and seeing what it's like to study sound at BCU. If you have any questions or want to chat with one of our students, please look at the link in the bio.