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Course overview
Students spend all of their time at the dBs facility. The highly experienced tutor team will help to develop and encourage the students own sound and music production skills. A wide range of subjects is studied including recording, sampling, synthesis, music production technique, working with video, film and multimedia.
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Partnership
This course is delivered by the University of Plymouth and Estover College at the dBs facility. This partnership of educational expertise combined with commercial experience helps to create one of the best courses in the country.
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Gear
Students have access to 16 professional recording studios, 2 live rooms, a surround sound lecture theatre and 3 highly specified PC & Mac Music Workstation Suites. Deep Blue Sound know of no other degree course where students have so much access to such fantastic gear.
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Digidesign Pro Tools courses
Depending on your previous experience you will be given the opportunity to take one or more industry standard Digidesign Pro Tools courses. Taken together these courses can normally cost upto £1500, but at dBs we are giving them away for free.
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Hands on
This is a subject that requires a large amount of hands on time. Don't let anyone tell you any different. Any institution that fills their music tech and sound related courses full of lecture and theory probably haven't invested enough in their facility.
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Course modules
The course modules are designed to promote exemplary production practice in the students own work. Students are encouraged to explore a multifaceted approach to solving production problems and to develop new areas of their work. Occasional sleep will be permitted.
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Back in the real world...
The programme also includes a work-based placement. Students have the opportunity to put into practice the skills acquired in an academic context. The placement provides the opportunity to network within the music technology field and to gain...
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How to apply
Please apply directly to UCAS using the following codes:-
Institution Code Name: PLYM Institution Code: P60
Course code FdA Sound & Music Technology: J932
Course code FdA Audio & Music Production: J935
Course code FdA Live Sound: J934
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How to finance your course
Applying to study for an FdA might seem like a daunting task, especially if you need to sort out your financial support. As with all HE courses you will not have to pay back any fees until after the course has finished and even then you will...
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Course Fees 2010/2011
Course fees for 2010/2011 will be £3290. As with all HE courses students will be entitled to apply for a student loan. This will only be repayable after the course when students earn in excess of a specified amount.
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Student Loan & Maintenance Grant Calculator
The nice people at the student finance website have provided us with a calculator to help estimate your loan and maintenance grant rates.
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