The Cape Audio College utilizes 45 studios and
digital audio workstations for all practical
assignments carried out by the students. We feel it is vital
that students have access to, and experience using the latest
equipment available. Our superior studios are therefore fitted
out acoustically and electronically so as to simulate the
professional environments our graduates will experience when
employed after completing the course.
Having access to such a large selection of work areas ensures
that our students will have ample opportunity to obtain the
hands-on experience they need to become employable, proficient
engineers. These fully equipped music production facilities
enable our students to produce world class recordings. In
addition, each studio has audio-visual capabilities, and MIDI
programming equipment.
In the studios, editing Laboratory and Audio Factory, students
will record and produce radio commercials, engineer and create
the sound design for various television commercials and movie
footage, record, mix and master music productions for CD
replication and program music beats and backing tracks using
MIDI keyboards and sequencers. Apart from assignments the studio
time booked is "free creative time" and students can focus on
areas they feel best situated. Students will however get
exposure to all facets of audio engineering making them more
employable.
All studios and workstations at the Cape Audio College are
fitted with Apple Macintosh computers and the latest Pro-tools
hardware and software.
Music Production suite
 World
Class music production studio fitted with the latest in
high end analogue and digital equipment. Large format mixer
provides real world professional training in the kind of
studio you would find in any world class production house.
This truly is the best training studio in the country. More |
The Digital Lounge
 The
digital lounge has been used as a commercial studio for
the past 16 years and is designed to provide the best in
digital audio production. Boasting 5.1 surround sound
mixing and ultra high end
focusrite front end. This
studio is a base for the advanced sections of the course. More |
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The Live Room
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Huge live space with sumptuous sound quality. This
really is the stuff of big studios. With its hard wood
floors and mobile acoustics, the live room is a real
feature of the college, big enough to record a small
orchestra or a large choir this room provides great experience when recording live
bands. More |
Studio 2
_small.jpg) Studio two at
the Cape Audio College is a smaller production suite that
is connected to the live room and isolation booths. This
first-rate air-conditioned recording studio packs a
Macintosh G5 running Pro-Tools with
multiple Channels of Digital
Audio, integrated with a Digidesign interface &
control surface. More |
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Studio 1
 Studio
1 is a 48 channel digital studio featuring a DAW (Digital
Audio Workstation) and an A-DAT digital
multi-track. The
monitor loudspeakers are Yamaha NS-10's. A 48-input Mackie
24-8 console forms the nerve-centre for this high-end
facility, and the studio with its unbeatable sound is used
for mainly mix-downs and editing. More |
Post Production
 The
Post-Production Studio has a more visually orientated
design and is best suited for putting sound to picture. A
Yamaha digital console is linked to a Pro Tools HD system
via fibre optic cables to ensure signal integrity, and the
studio is linked to the main live room to enable students
to create spot effects (Foley) or music productions. More |
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The Lecture Theatre
 Fitted
with Pro-tools and a large projector screen, our spacious,
air-conditioned lecture room doubles as a small studio in
itself, and is therefore suitable for demonstrations of
all audio principles within our
curriculum. Lectures take
the form of interactive "workshops" and are conducted by
professional working engineers. More |
The Audio Factory
 The Audio Factory is a group of four small studios that
are used to teach the basics of recording technique.
Students start out here recording radio commercials to
analogue tape as an exercise in the basic principles of
audio. Each "Radio Edit Booth" consists of a control room
and a small live area for vocal or instrument recordings. More |
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The E-labs
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Editing Laboratories are
our digital workstations that
students frequently use to
perform editing and fine-tuning.
There are thirty four E-Labs, each consisting of a
Pro-Tools System with MIDI controller keyboard, and
outboard effects units. The E-labs make perfect
music-production platforms. More |
Contact us
 If
you would like more information please feel free to
contact us via e-mail or telephone. Visitors are more than
welcome on the Cape Audio campus, so if you would like a
guided tour please feel free to pop in. |
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