Experience In-Studio Training
There’s the theory but then there’s the practice. At Schoolcraft our Sound Recording students take field trips to area studios to perfect their skills. Listed below are a few links to the studios we currently visit.
Willis Sound, Willis Michigan
willis-sound.com
Plymouth Rock Recording Co
prockproductions.com
Multiple and Rewarding Career Paths
High tech and the arts meets in the recording studio. Whether you want a professional career as a music producer or recording engineer, or you want to create your own music using computer technology, you can have a successful, exciting career in the music business with a degree or certificate from Schoolcraft College. Multiple career paths are possible for games, live sound, post-production for film and TV, network audio and software development just to name a few.
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To contact the Sound Recording Department directly please call 734-462-7264 or email [email protected].
Meet the SRT Faculty
With over 60 years of teaching and industry experience Ben Blau and Todd Sager have literally “been there, done that” in every audio related endeavor. Our faculty can help you realize your goals and assist you in forging a path to success.
Ben Blau teaches in the Sound Recording Technology Program at Schoolcraft College. As an audio engineer, composer, educator, author and technical consultant, he has been professionally active in the field since 1982. Ben brings together the art and science of sound in his innovative approach to teaching the subject — everything from professional recording, mixing and mastering, to cutting-edge 3D spatial audio technologies for feature films and video games.
Todd Sager has spent his entire career on “both sides of the glass”, meaning being both a musician and recording engineer since the early 80s. He holds both a Bachelor and Masters degree in performance from the University of Michigan and has taught music and recording related courses for over thirty years. Todd’s latest professional album releases have been on the Naxos Recording classical label.
Make Life-Changing Sound Connections
Schoolcraft students make excellent and sometimes life-changing connections with other students and professionals while in the Sound Recording Technology program. Students form bands together, start businesses, collaborate on projects and meet current professionals in the business.
Students are also encouraged to join the Audio Engineering Society (www.aes.org) and take part in the SRT Club.
The SRT Club is a student run, faculty-facilitated club created last winter semester by SRT students. The students decide content and topics they would like to explore, such as guest speakers, studio tours, special audio topics and more.
Train with Top Quality Equipment
At Schoolcraft you will train on world class equipment in a state of the art sound laboratory. Here are some of our highlights:
- Hardware:
- Solid State Logic AWS 948 recording console
- Outboard Gear by
- API
- Eventide
- Lexicon
- Millennia
- Neve
- Retro Instruments
- TC Electronics
- Universal Audio
- Software/Student Stations:
- Every student station equipped with Apple Mac computers, Universal Audio Apollo accelerated interfaces, Unltrasone Headphones, Avid ProTools, Logic ProX, Reason
- Plugins by AudioEase, iZotope, McDSP, Universal Audio UAD (all), Waves