Audio and music studio

Audio and Music Studios

Audio and Music Studios

The audio and music facilities at BNU have been designed to help you learn, create and reach your full potential in your chosen area.

Our state of the art recording studios give you access to the space and technology you need, from individual edit rooms up to large Pro Tools Ultimate studios with attached live rooms and vocal booths. We are extremely excited to be one of the few academic institutes in the UK that has a Dolby Atmos certified recording studio. It is a burgeoning technology, and the recent acquisition puts us in a prime position to teach our students about the latest innovative developments in the world of audio, which will better prepare them for new roles within the creative industries once they graduate.

  • Studio 1 boasts a Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 speaker system and an Avid S6 console. We are one of the first Universities in the UK to adopt Dolby Atmos into a music environment.
  • Studio 2 features an Audient ASP8024 Mixing desk, with outboard equipment by Neve, Universal Audio, Teletronix, Focusrite, Tegler, Maag, Manley and others. It also has monitoring by Genelec and Adam Audio.
  • Studio 3 is based around an Avid S4 control surface.
  • The Electronic Music Studio is based around an AVID S3 surface and dock.
  • The edit booths are equipped with microphone preamps from Digidesign (HD Omni).
  • Our microphone stock includes Sennheiser, Neumann, AKG, Shure, Rode and Electrovoice.
  • Studio monitoring includes 5.1 systems by Genelec and stereo systems by KRK.

All studios feature a full range of plug-ins including, but not limited to, the UAD plug-in suite, iZotope, Sound Toys, Ozone6, NI Komplete , Slate Trigger.

Students within the School of Creative and Digital Industries taking relevant courses and/or modules also have access to thousands of royalty free sound effects (SFX) through Soundsnap to support their work.

Audio and Music facilities suite
Audio and Music facilities suite
Audio Recording Options

Our impressive recording centre is comprised of four fully equipped control rooms plus two large, linked live rooms, as well as four live vocal / overdub booths.

 

Studio 1 is 38m2 in size and is connected to a 48m2 live area and an 18m2 live booth. Other live rooms and booths can be connected by prior arrangement with the Studio Manager. The control room has sight lines to studio 3, live rooms 1 & 2, and live booths 1 & 3.

The studio includes:

  • Genelec 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos Surround
  • AVID S6 console
  • iMac Pro
  • Mac Mini
  • Focusrite RedNet A16R 16X16
  • X3 Focusrite Pro 828 MKII 8 CHNL Mic Preamplifier
  • Mackie HM-800 8 CHNL Headphone amplifier
  • Behringer Ultrapatch Pro
  • AVID MTRX
  • AVID Sync X
  • Drawmer 1961 Tube EQ
  • TL Audio Ivory C5021 Compressor

 

Studio 2 has a control room of 38m2 and is connected to a 48m2 live area. The control room has sight lines to studios 1 & 2, and live booths 1, 2 & 3.

The studio includes:

  • Genelec 5.1 surround
  • Digidesign D-command console
  • iMac Pro
  • Pro Tools HD I/O
  • X3 Focusrite Pro 828 MKII 8 CHNL Mic Preamplifier
  • Behringer Powerplay Pro 8 CHNL Headphone Distribution Amplifier
  • X2 Behringer Ultrapatch Pro

 

Studio 3 has a control room of 25m2 and is connected to a 20m2 live area. Other live rooms and booths can be connected by prior arrangement with the studio manager. The control room has sight lines to studio 1 and live room 1.

The studio includes:

  • Digidesign C|24 control surface desk
  • Apollo X8
  • Genelec 5.1 Surround monitoring system
  • KRK VXT6 nearfield monitors
  • iMac Pro 3.2GHz intel Xeon 32GB RAM
  • Pro Tools HD10 & 11
  • Avid 8x8x8 HDX HD I/O
  • TL Audio loudness meters
  • Universal Audio X8 Apollo with full range of plug-ins

 

Studio 4 is 18m2 and includes:

  • KRK VXT6 speakers
  • Genelec speakers
  • AVID S3 console
  • iMac Pro
  • Focusrite RedNet 5
  • Universal Audio Apollo x8
  • Behringer Powerplay Pro 8 CHNL Headphone Distribution Amplifier
  • Ableton Push Controller
  • M-Audio Keystation 88 MIDI Keyboard
  • Arturia KeyStep Pro
  • Sequential Prophet Rev2
  • Moog Subsequent 37
  • Moog Mother-32
  • Analogue Solutions Vostok 2020

 

Facilities also include two project suites, each containing:

  • KRK Rokit 6 monitors
  • AVID S3 console
  • iMac Pro
  • Pro Tools HD OMNI
  • Mackie Big Knob Monitoring Controller
  • Ableton Push Controller
  • M-Audio Keystation 88 MIDI Keyboard