Would you like to make the most of your home recording hardware or software? (Or have you thought of purchasing equipment but don’t know what would suit your needs and budget?) Would you like to produce a demo or other recording project? (Or have you produced one already but weren’t happy with it?)

With the rapid development of affordable, high-quality recording and production equipment, more and more people are producing their own music. Amateur and professional musicians who lacked any previous knowledge of the intricacies of the recording process are now becoming studio specialists in their own homes.

As a result of this, the New School offers private lessons on virtually any aspect of music and home recording technology from experienced studio experts. Taking place in our Music Technology Lab – and using a combination of software packages (including ProTools, Reason and Sibelius), along with digital multi-track systems, synthesisers and samplers – lessons can take you through a recording project from start to finish or cover a variety of chosen areas, including:

• Getting the most from your music software
• MIDI programming and sequencing
• Sampling
• Microphone techniques and placement
• Mixing principles and practices
• Diagnosing and solving problems with existing mixes
• General production and arrangement advice and assistance
• Choosing gear and software packages for the home studio
• Music notation

Lessons can be taken as a course of 60-minute private lessons or as a single two-hour ‘Intensive Lesson’. Fees are charged as our standard private lesson or Intensive Lesson fees plus an additional technology lab fee (payable on enrolment) of €8 per hour. For example, the fee for a 12-week term of 60-minute private lessons in music technology is the private lesson fee plus €96.

Go to Tuition Options for more information on private and intensive lessons, and Enrolment & Fees for tuition fees and enrolment forms.

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