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MTV Liverpool Music Week teams up with SAE to offer Music Education Program

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MTV Liverpool Music Week teams up with SAE to offer Music Education Program

  SAE Liverpool and MTV Liverpool Music Week have announced an official program of exclusive audio educational events. Taking place between the 30 Oct – 6 Nov, this year’s Liverpool Music Week line-up looks to be the most exciting yet and the perfect run up to the MTV Europe Music Awards. In conjunction with this prestigious event, SAE is proud to announce a Music Education Program that allows participants to gain an introduction and learn more about various aspects of the audio industry – from intimate recording sessions to mixin [ read more.. ]

Pro-Tools events in London and Manchester

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Pro-Tools events in London and Manchester

Pro Tools Music Creation events are your chance to get free training and hands-on experience of Digidesign and M-Audio products. Special Guests: Fraser T Smith Kano, (Craig David, Plan B) Ren Swan in association with Songtank (KT Tunstall, Ronan Keating, The Faders) Simon Sherbourne Electronic music maker from lapjockey.com David Gould Pro Tools Product Specialist Free hands-on Pro Tools training sessions In association with authorised Digidesign Pro Tools Training Facilities, you can learn the basics or pick up new time-saving [ read more.. ]

SAE gets into bed with Audiocourses for on-line learning

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SAE gets into bed with Audiocourses for on-line learning

SAE Institute have teamed up with Audiocourses.com to launch a new distance learning education division. In theory, anyone, anywhere in the world will be able to access the an SAE education… but things don't really work like that. It's the practical, hands-on nature of audio courses which make them worthwhile. Let's face it, you can find just about anything out on Google for free, including a massive array of tips, tricks and rules of the trade, all ready to be broken. While SAE in the real world craves dominance, opening up schools on ju [ read more.. ]

Virtual Stadium Mixing Rig arrives in Manchester

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Virtual Stadium Mixing Rig arrives in Manchester

An audio engineering college in Manchester has taken delivery of 'The Virtual Stadium Mixing rig' - one of only two in the world. Built by Digidesign, the rig is designed to give students the chance to recreate working the front of house position for some pretty big gigs! The rig is part of the new digidesign studio at SSR, a technical training school for the music, audio and visual industries. SSR sound engineer Jay Beard said: "I've travelled the world mixing live bands like Snow Patrol, Doves, Elbow and Cherry Ghost and this Virtual Stadi [ read more.. ]

Cambridge Music Technology launch new courses

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Cambridge Music Technology launch new courses

A new range of day courses, founded by Sound On Sound contributor Mike Senior, has been launched by Cambridge Music Technology. Mike is the author of SOS cover features including Recording Guitars  , and the Piano Recording piece in Sound On Sound’s January 2008 issue. He will give live demonstrations of audio equipment and techniques so that atendees can compare different studio gear and recording approaches first-hand. The courses cover topics such as vocal production, electric guitar recording, drum miking, piano recording, and mixing, w [ read more.. ]