Drum Workshop – Hands on With Cape Audio College

The second year students where thrown right into the deep end yesterday with their very first lecture of the year. We believe its vital to spend as much time as possible in the studios, experimenting with the various recording techniques that are used in modern music production. One of the more challenging task’s in audio engineering is that of drum recording. There are at least one million ways to botch a drum recording, and without the experience of “messing it up quite few time’s” it’s impossible for developing engineers to gain the necessarily skills required to produce a world class drum sound. That is why here at the Cape Audio College we put so much emphasis on Read more »

2nd Year Advanced Post Production Project

For the past 6 weeks the Cape Audio College second year students have been working really hard on their latest sound to video project. For the first time in their course the students were required to compile an A/V Projects using only their own foley work and field recording, no library sound effects were allowed… so using the new Cape Audio College Tascam field recorder, they hit the Cape Town city and surrounds in their production groups gathering sounds in all sorts of places, building up libraries of their very own.

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