UW Certificate in Audio Production -- Learn More

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Learn more about the UW Certificate in Audio Production from instructors Jason Devore and Glenn Lorbecki, both notable Seattle recording industry professionals. Click here: http://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/audio-production.html Video Transcript: [Glenn Lorbecki] One of the very first album projects I ever worked on was a little alternative rock band called the Violent Femmes. We're not professional teachers; we're teachers who are professionals. [Jason Devore] What this program offers to students is a solid foundation in technical, practical, and creative skills in audio production and that's going to help them to get where they want to go much faster. It's like getting the expressway of education in this field. [Glenn Lorbecki] One thing I really love about my gig is that every day it's something a little different. You know, one day it's game audio, the next day we're doing commercial audio for television, the next day we're doing a blues record, and then who knows. [Jason Devore] In the first class, the students study microphones and microphone design, speaker and speaker design, digital recording consoles analogue recording consoles, outboard processing equipment and they also take field trips to local various studios and equipment manufacturers. In the second semester, the students spend time applying what they learned in the first semester by actually listening to microphones and comparing speakers and comparing outboard equipment and just hearing how they sound. [Glenn Lorbecki] They get to dig right into the projects that we're working on a regular basis, so I think that's a really cool advantage. [Jason Devore] By the time they move on to the third project oriented quarter, they start combining what they learned in the first two quarters along with their own creative sensibilities to complete a music recording project or sound design for a video project. [Glenn Lorbecki] When I started teaching in the class in the 90's people said, "Oh I want a job like yours. I want to be a staff engineer for a recording studio" and so we taught people how to align analogue tape machines and do all the maintenance things that you do in a big studio. Nowadays it's pretty different. People's career paths have changed. Rarely do we see positions even open in a recording studio for a staff engineer. Typically, we see independent engineers. Typically we'll see people who work on projects out of their own studio or small project studios. And so rather than teaching someone how to be a staff engineer in a large facility, we teach someone to make the most of the tools that they have available to them, whether it be a small microphone and a laptop or ten thousand dollars' worth of semi-pro recording gear. Graduates of this program have gone on to be recording engineers, certainly. But we also see a lot of people getting involved in post-production whether in the audio or the video side. We've also had a couple graduates that have gone on to work in the corporate world. When they leave our program, they have the ability to go into any audio environment in the world and understand what's going on and know when things are going right, and more importantly know when things are not going right and how to fix it. [Jason Devore] So if you're interested in audio in general, or you're interested in music recording, or if you're interested in sound design for games or television or film, this is a good class for you. You'll be learning from some of the best in the field and you'll be working alongside colleagues who are as excited and interested as you are, you'll have a lot of fun.