Sound Gallery Studios

History

Sound Gallery CIC is a social enterprise, founded in 2007 by a team of driven and experienced musicians, educators and technicians, all dedicated to helping to transform the lives of disadvantaged young people through music-making and music education, and developing original creative works produced by talented musicians. The underlying themes and driving principles behind our activities are: accessibility, equal opportunities, creative learning, originality, talent, passion, and innovative high quality artistic work. Sound Gallery’s social objectives are to help, support, promote, advise, educate and train musicians towards a career in the music industry, whether this means playing in an orchestra or a band, writing music for film, becoming a music producer or recording engineer, promoting live music events, or training as a community musician. We also work with young people who are at risk of social exclusion through music enrichment programmes and volunteering schemes.

Advantages of studying here

direct links with the music industry.

Areas of specialisation

Logic 8, Pro Tools, Reason, Ableton Live, DJ courses, youth enrichment programmes, volunteering opportunities.

Description

Sound Gallery Studios provide a range of music technology and music production courses which provide participants with the skills they need to create their own music using iMac computers with the help of music experts and professionals. We have designed courses and workshops which go beyond the nuts and bolts of software education and aim to inspire you to create, record and produce your own music.

Sound Gallery studios is a professional recording studio with excellent recording, rehearsal and training facilities situated in the basement of Exeter Phoenix. Our services include music recording, mixing and mastering, music composition and sound design, voiceover recording, music technology courses, work experience programmes and music industry events and live music showcases.

Our courses are run by Sound Gallery Studios music professionals and are taught on iMac computers. Sessions are delivered in small groups allowing for more individual interaction between participants and tutors. If there are further areas outside the course content that you would like to explore, do not hesitate to contact us as we also provide 1:1 tuition (in the studio and at home).

Software
All computers are fully stocked with a range of audio and imaging software for all multi-media needs. Software is regularly updated due to our unique relationship with our educational partners Time and Space, Native Instruments and Ableton who create innovative hardware and software for music production and performance for producers, guitarists, sound designers and DJs.

Software currently installed: Logic Pro, ProTools 9, Reason 4, Ableton Live 9, Komplete 7 (Native Instruments), Omnishphere, AAS plugins, Rob Papen eXplorer bundle, Rob Papen rp-delay, rp-reverb, Ohmforce bundle, Toontrack EZ Drummer, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop.

Sound Gallery Studios is a professional, purpose built, acoustically treated and fully air-conditioned recording studio situated in the basement complex at Exeter Phoenix. The studio complex is well equipped with a range of classic analogue mics, pristine valve pre-amps and both soft and analogue synths (including the legendary Neumann U47, Prism Sound Maselec MMA-4XR, 1" tape machine, Juno 6 etc) alongside the best in digital effects processors, soft synths and plug-ins.We offer a wide range of integrated recording solutions, based around an Apple Mac Pro, Pro Tools and Logic Pro system with clean and high end AD/DA conversion and clocking from the SSL (Solid State Logic) Alphalink and Prism Sound Orpheus.