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weeks.jpg (36462 bytes)The L. Austin Weeks Recording Studio is a professional audio recording facility that is the heart of the Music Engineering program at UM. It has several isolation areas for different types of instrumental performance needs, including a drum booth, vocal alcove, and sound locks. The main studio is spacious enough for string sections and other group performance needs. It features a high ceiling and Yamaha grand piano. 

The control room houses a 48-input Euphonix S5 digital console and multitrack hard-disk recorder. For details on the control room specifications, please see the equipment list.  You can also view a partial list of our microphone selection.   There is also an integrated "house sync" for video, digital multi-track, ProTools and MIDI synchronization.

The studio is used for recording sessions, coursework and hands-on workshops. Freshman take workshops on the basics of music recording their first semester and on studio technology/maintenance their second semester. During the sophomore year, students take classes where they alternate between performing and recording songs. By junior year, the students have the ability to earn a studio license and book their own studio sessions. In addition, junior year students learn about audio for video and the use of the studio’s synchronization and post-production capabilities. 

Junior and senior students can pursue more sophisticated studio production techniques with a combination of advanced workshops, their own session work, and also by working on the engineering staff in cooperation with the jazz and writing/production students. The Weeks Recording Studio provides ample opportunity for Music Engineering majors to gain practical hands-on experience in preparation for careers in the music recording industry.



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Weeks Studio Equipment List

Console
  • Euphonix System 5, 46 input, Pro Tools equipped digital mixing console

Recorders

  • 1 24-track Sony PCM-3324 digital tape recorder
  • 2 Alesis ADAT
  • Studer A-80 analog master recorder
  • ProTools hard-disk, CD, and DAT recorder

Monitors

  • Genelec studio monitor and amplification system (model 440A )
  • Yamaha, Westlake and Event near-field monitors

Signal Processors

  • Lexicon 480L
  • Lexicon 300
  • Eventide Ultra-Harmonizer
  • TC Electronic M5000 signal processing unit
  • Summit Audio Tube Leveling Amplifiers TLA 100A
  • Drawmer gates, noise filters, and spectral compressors
  • DBX compressors (166A, 165A)
  • Sony M7 and F7 signal processors
  • GML model 8200 stereo EQ
  • Tube Tech PE1C EQ
  • Tube Tech CL 1B compressor
  • Eventide clockworks phasor
  • Urei 1176 LN Limiter
  • TC Electronics Finalizer 96K

MIDI & Video

  • Motu Digital Timepiece
  • Motu MIDI  Timepiece
  • Opcode 8 Port S/E
  • Kurzweil K2500 Sampler
  • Emu Ultra Sampler
  • Logic/Cakewalk Sequencers
  • Alesis AI-1 sample rate converter
  • TimeLine MicroLynx Synchronizer/Controller
  • Sony UVW-1806 Beta SP Video Recorder
  • Timecode DAT

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