New Facilities at Cape Audio College – Five new Beat Factories have arrived!

There are some new additions here at the Cape Audio College. We have just completed fitting an additional five production studios to add to our already impressive facilities. The Beat factories (As we are calling them) are production specific studios fitted with the very latest in electronic music production hardware and software as well as acoustically treated recording booths and control rooms. Each beat factory has been equipped with the latest in Focusrite audio interfaces, brand new Apple Mac, Pro Tools 10 workstations, some pretty nice outboard processing from Lexicon and dbx, monitoring from JBL, as well as a Roland GAIA production synthasizers and Yamaha mixing consoles in every room. The new department is also home to some of the nicest synthasizers on the market today, which are available to students for their production assignments. The Cape Audio College now features 14 Read more »

Cape Audio College Sponsor SAEP

Early In November Cape Audio College  got contacted by one of the organizers of the South African Education and Enrichment Project – The SAEP, They were looking for a Sponsorship for a PA system and sound engineers to setup and run the system for a fundraising event, seeing as Cape Audio College had just Read more »

Student Diary: Hectic on Hope the YOH! parties.

The following article was written by Cape Audio College second year student Warren Fisher and is an excerpt from his and Michael Clarks experiences as independent live sound engineers on one of his very first events. Live sound  is a hugely buoyant part of the sound industry with many employment opportunities. It is great to see some of our students getting involved and going out and doing it for themselves, and as an institution that supports and guides after a student has finished studying, we were more than happy to let the guys test out our new JBL rig.

It all started while the college was on a week long break, when Michael Clarke and I were contacted again by the event organizers of the collaborative YOH! Parties. The theme for this one was “Early Halloween”. Having organised a smaller live rig for one of their events a few weeks prier, we knew this Read more »

Live And Direct

Its that time of year again , that’s right! Cape Audio College is hosting its famous Live and Direct annual party on the 3rd of November at Zula Bar Read more »

Zomboy At Cape Audio College

Awesome news has come in, we’ve secured a sweet workshop with one of the hard hitters making serious waves in the dubstep scene. As an exciting forthcoming attraction Zomboy will be at Cape Audio College for a Read more »

Knowing How to Protect your Hearing

Being in the audio industry it’s pretty safe to say our ears are our most prized possessions but even if you think you know how to clean and protect your ears from the endless thrashing they get from day-to-day life there are avenues through which day-to-day-life can  indirectly and directly damage your ears without Read more »

Beach Party Record at Cape Audio College

There are some new kids in town. Beach party is a “Psychedelic-Afro-Disco-Surf-Punk” band from Cape Town. This five piece monster of an outfit consists of Andrew (Keys), Danny (Guitar and vocals) Makkie (Bass), Black Irish (Drums) and Big daddy D (Guitar). The band is extremely tight with melodies and rhythms that will get your foot tapping and your head spinning with joy. The band booked a 2 day weekend recording session under the guidance of producer/artist and cape audio graduate Mike Zietsman (P.H.fat).  The goal of the weekend was Read more »

Ernie B St Clair – Cape Audio Graduate Interview

Recently we where visited by one of our old graduates, Ernie B St Clair. Ernie studied here at the Cape Audio College 11 years ago and has enjoyed quite a lot of success as an artist and producer. It seems that Ernie is doing quite well for himself, with a SAMA nomination last year and a tour coming very soon, it’s clear that there are a lot of opportunities out there for talented young artists. We had a few minutes to catch up and have a chat about what Ernie has been up to and where his career has taken him now, 11 years later.  Read more »

Cape Town Electronic Music Festival Day 2 Highlights

The second day of the Red Bull studio workshops went underway yesterday as part of the build up to the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival hosted at the V&A Waterfront. The festival itself will be running over this weekend and should be an amazing experience for the more electronically minded of us. The discussions last night focused on a few different aspects of the electronic music industry with a focus on local talent. South Africa possesses a truly underground electronic music scene that Read more »

David “The Kiffness” Scott – Remixes Goldfish

Seems like one of our graduates is doing rather well. David Scott Aka,, The Kiffness has remixed and released an official Goldfish single (8bit? really?).  Titled “We come together” featuring Sakhile Moleshe and is the latest single to be released by Cape Town chart toppers Goldfish.  Included on the single are remixes from the likes Shaun Duvet, fishy beat and Tony Finger. The single is available from iTunes, CDbaby and Beatport. Should do well,,,,, seems like everything those guys lay their hands on turns to gold……. Fish! Sorry pardon the rather lame pun. Check it out! Read more »