Diploma of Audio Production

What You Will Learn

In a matter of months, you'll learn the key fundamentals of studio production, live sound production, and DAW Operation.

The Diploma of Audio Production has been built in a way that gives you plenty of time with expert practitioners and many hours on the latest tools and software.

You will engage in collaborative learning and apply the skills learned throughout the course to a real-life scenario. Demonstrating your recording and mixing techniques you will deliver a practical recording from a specified brief, under the support and mentorship of our network of expert lecturers.

To complement your technical skills, you will graduate with employability skills, introductory project management skills, and scholarly techniques for higher education.

Upon completion, you will be eligible for up to 80 credit points towards the Bachelor of Audio.

The Diploma of Audio Production is stage 1 of the 3 stages of a Bachelor.

• Develop the essential technical skills and the knowledge required to collaborate with other creative media students and professionals.
• Credit Points: 10 Thinking About Audio and Music introduces you to creative and scholarly thinking in your discipline. By examining leading thinkers and movements in audio and music, you will develop an understanding of key practical and professional skills that will enable you to develop a deeper understanding of the industry, scholarship, and the nature of creativity. This unit forms an essential foundation for your studies and future career by fostering your skills as an independent learner and reflective practitioner.
• Credit points: 10 Establish a basic knowledge of the principles of sound, foundational acoustics, human hearing, perception of sound and the range of technical terms related to audio. You'll sonically assess a listening environment and be able to communicate your ideas using industry terminology. Potential projects: Improve the acoustic properties of a home studio setup. Using technology analyse the sound of different rooms.
• Credit points: 20 Gain the audio recording skills required to operate studio equipment and a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) system by undertaking simple recording and mixing projects. You'll be able to demonstrate an understanding of session planning, studio etiquette, microphone placement, signal flow, multi-track recording and signal processing (EQ, filters and dynamics processing) and be able to edit your session in preparation for mixdown. Potential projects: Develop a plan for a professional recording session. Analyse sound recordings and create multiple mixes using balance, pan, equalisation, automation and FX processing.
• Credit points: 10 This unit explores the concepts of entrepreneurship, innovation and project design. You will develop approaches to identify promising opportunities and actionable strategies to transform them into tangible successes. Through exposure to developing new ideas, processes and ways of working - both individually and in entrepreneurial teams - you will hone skills to put creative ideas into practice and achieve real-world impact. As Alan Kay explained, "The best way to predict the future is to create it", so let's get at it!
• Credit points: 10 An introduction to the technology used in various audio systems such as recording studios, live, and audio-visual sound reinforcement systems. Develop basic soldering and electronics fault-finding skills and investigate the connectivity and terminology of small-scale audio systems. Potential projects: Safely set up and operate small live sound or audio-visual systems for music or spoken presentations.
• Credit Points: 20 Apply your acquired production skills in real-life audio, music or sound design projects, one 'in the box' and one in the recording studio. You'll deliver to a brief, using production skills and researching comparable works to create well-rounded products through iterative processes. Potential projects: First project: Enhance an audio production using sequencing, sampling and synthesis for music composition or sound design project. Second project: Working on a collaborative studio production, You'll apply project management skills to demonstrate effective use of time and resources, whilst documenting and reflecting on the production process, identifying areas for improvements and responding to feedback from your your classmates and facilitator.