Digital Music Production

Music Recording Using Pro Tools

If you have ever wanted to record music or create music with a computer, this course is for you!

Regardless of the type of production, software, or instruments used in making music, anyone working professionally will have to interface their material with Pro Tools . The training this course provides will prepare you to interface and speak on a technical and creative level with professionals across the industry.

Pro Tools is the "industry standard" Digital Audio Workstation in Music, Film, Television, and Concert Production. Students will be learning on the latest version of Pro Tools 10 software within a professional recording studio environment from an industry veteran, Ithaca College instructor and recording engineer, Brian Dozoretz.

This Summer College course is for both the musician and recording engineer who has reached the limits of (or is even having difficulty with) other music / recording software, such as Garage Band or Audacity. But the course requires no prior experience in either music or recording.

Summer College instructor Brian Dozoretz has more than 18 years of experience in the music recording industry and has had projects nominated for Grammy Awards for the last five years. He has collaborated with world-class artists, producers, and engineers on Grammy-winning projects. In addition to his recording expertise, he is an actively performing and recording bassist.

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More FYI about recording at Ithaca College.......

Bachelor of Music in Sound Recording Technology

Ithaca College has offered a Bachelor of Music in Sound Recording Technology since 1998. An extremely competitive program offered by the School of Music, the Bachelor of Music is for the musician and recording engineer.

The senior-year internship in the recording business, along with the program's rigorous preparation and hands-on experience from the beginning, has helped students get jobs in the business right out of college, including with studios like Soundtrack in New York City, Acoustic in Chicago, Georgetown Masters, Euphonix, Sound One, PostWorks, Glyph Technologies, Avcon, and Dale Pro Audio. Positions include audio network specialist, studio musician in Nashville, and touring sound technician.

The Recording Studio at IC

Students in the Summer College program will be using the newly renovated recording studios in Ithaca College's Whalen Center. The Whalen Center has six music production studios, with a total of 15 Pro Tools work stations. Significant elements of the Whalen Center studios have been redesigned with new equipment: large flat-panel screens, a 48-channel SSL Duality, Benchmark converters and microphone preamplifiers, and NHT Monitors. The studios have incorporated Energy Star technology to reduce energy use as well as reduce wasted heat and noise. Of course, not all of this equipment will be incorporated into the Summer College course.