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
• a mobile recording unit
• an extensive range of professional microphones
• four digital 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, and a comprehensive set of percussion instruments
• two student multimedia computing rooms housing a number of networked Macintosh computers running Cubase, Logic, Sibelius, Reaktor, Max/MSP, CSound, 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.