BAE is a comprehensive course that is designed to teach you everything you would need to know to function as an audio engineer.

There are three main course subjects: Beginning Recording Techniques, Beginning Music Theory, and Beginning Pro Tools.

You will meet one-on-one with a different instructor three times each week to go over each one of these subjects.

Additionally you will do two assists a week for the first four weeks with other professional and student engineers in our state of the art facilities.

At week five you will start your own projects. You will do as many as six projects in the beginning class alone.

Each one of these projects will cover seeking the artists you would like to work with, booking them on the studio calendar, recording, editing, overdubbing, mixing, and mastering. Unlike other schools where projects are completed in groups, you will own your projects from bringing in the artist to mastering the final mix.

By the time you get out of the beginning class you will know how to and will have done the entire recording process as many as six times.

Courses within the Beginning Audio Engineering program may not be taken individually. Upon completition of this program, students are awarded a certificate of completion and an audio reel of projects completed.

BRT - Beginning Recording Techniques

This class introduces fundamentals of recording techniques and equipment used within a recording studio. Concepts such as defining what audio is, signal flow, patch bays, signal processors, microphones, consoles and other studio basics are taught.

BPT - Beginning Pro Tools

This class introduces the student to Digidesign's Pro Tools software, its interface and menu structure. Topics covered are selection and navigation, basic editing techniques, bouncing down a track and creating a CD. All classroom discussion is reinforced with required lab work.

BPS - Beginning Projects and Seminars

Starting with a simple singer-songwriter session and working towards a final project of a full band, the student owns every step of the process. For each project the student will: contact artist, schedule studio time, record, overdub, edit, mix and master the material. We will walk you through everystep of the way with monthly seminars and one-on-one tracking, editing, mixing, and mastering meetings.

BMT - Beginning Music Theory

This class introduces the fundamentals of music theory. Topics discussed are major and minor key scales, intervals, basic elements of rhythm, triads and seventh chords, diatonic chords in major and minor keys, and key recognition.