A. If you have the money and the time, absolutely! This course is designed from the ground up to be taken online and does not even try to replicate the college experience. What it does do, though, is provide you with a complete grounding in Recording and Music Production. Every aspect is covered and, armed with this solid, basic knowledge, you can continue learning as you pursue your career or further your studies at a college or university. Either way, you’ll carry the knowledge you gain here for life.

No. Schools who run a recording or music production program have facilities and instructors who bring their own experience and perspective to the table. This is purely an online course. You’ll need your own equipment and your own discipline to do the tasks and projects. Everyone is different. Institutions are not for everyone and, especially in this time of the Covid-19 pandemic, not even an option for everyone.

A minimum of 26 days, i.e. you can’t go quicker than one module a day. But more sensibly, do one module a week. It’s not a race.

You get all 26 lessons, each with their own videos, tasks and projects, supporting information and bonus videos, a dedicated lesson glossary, access to a dedicated forum for each lesson, and a complete professionally recorded multitrack to use as raw material. And a certificate!

Of course you can purchase other things we produce but none are needed for this course. Nothing is missing and there are no hidden extras.

First one, no. Second one unlikely but not impossible. Alan and the team have carefully written and designed this course so that you won’t need him hanging over your shoulder as you take it!

Correct! Actually 72! But if your question is something like ‘how relevant can he be to what I’m doing today?’ The answer is, how about Pythagoras in Math? Or Isaac Newton, or Einstein? The point is ‘science’ usually doesn’t date very quickly and this course is 50% grounded in the science of recording. 10kHz is 10kHz and this frequency governs what it governs whether you’re using an old analog console or an EQ plugin released this morning.

Funnily enough, the ‘Art’ 50% of this course is also surprisingly timeless. Plus, if you want to know how classic records—like the ones you, your parents, and possibly grandparents have heard—were made, you’ve come to the right place. As one 24 year old said recently, “If you’ve only worked ‘in the box’ and never really recorded anything, much less worked on a console, you’re missing half the experience.” You can’t really call yourself a producer until you know something about ‘real recording’ using mics, objects that produce sound, and those weird and wonderful people called ‘singers.’

Finally, Alan is still making records—as we speak! And he won a Grammy in 2019.

Well you can just not bother spending much time on one if you like. BUT… the whole point of this course is to stretch your mind and expand your horizons. So, try to give them all some time. You might surprise yourself!

Maybe, if you had ten years to find it all. That said, most YT videos tend to go molecular because the presenter is really into a technique or a piece of equipment. That can sometimes be very useful but rarely do you find much context. Without context (which you’ll fine loads of here) information can be quite hard to apply.

Yes! There are nine more for sale in the ASSR website shop on sale at a discounted price to anyone taking the course. You’ll get the discount coupon in your initial welcome package.

Not without contacting info@artandscienceofsound.com first. This is copyrighted material for your unfettered personal use as part of this course. If you feel you have done a cracking job and feel it could be released, please contact us at the above address and we will respond.

Yes, you are able to download the included Session File and Glossaries and access the videos.

1. A DAW (any platform). You’ll need to be able to load and play a raw session file (2.5GB) containing 62-tracks of audio (wave) data.

2. A decent pair of monitors. If not, a decent pair of headphones.

3. An audio interface (4 channels)

4. Microphones: You don’t have to have a fancy mic closet but a small selection of mics (both dynamic and condenser) will be helpful.