Facilities
The Department has extensive professional facilities housed in the purpose-built Performing Arts Technology Studios (PATS) which were opened in 1988.
These include:
- Three professional recording studios and associated control rooms
- Two sets of mobile recording equipment
- An extensive range of professional microphones
- Three audio editing suites
- A listening room with surround monitoring equipped to the highest international specification (ITU-R BS 1116)
an Audio and Electronics Laboratory for practical work - A good range of electronic and acoustic test equipment
- Twelve practice rooms with pianos
- A Steinway concert grand piano, a fortepiano, a harpsichord, a portable electronic organ, three drum kits, and a comprehensive set of percussion instruments
- Two student multimedia computing rooms housing a number of networked Macintosh computers running Logic, Sibelius, Reaktor, Max/MSP, etc
- A well-stocked audio room with scores, records, cassettes, CDs and playback equipment (located in the nearby University Library).
Our recording studios and student engineers may be booked externally.
