Courses
Studio Maintenance and Troubleshooting
This course focuses on beginner-level studio maintenance by combining lectures with hands-on lab activities.
Mix Techniques Lab
This course introduces students to the aesthetic considerations and functional operation of equipment for multitrack mixdown of stereo masters.
Live Concert Recording and Mixing Techniques
This class focuses on the techniques and applications employed in live concert recording.
Advanced Digital Mastering, Editing, and Delivery
This in-depth, project-oriented class gives the student intensive exposure to the creative and technical issues involved in advanced music mastering, editing, and delivery.
The Business of Music Production
This course takes the student through a broad review of copyright, licensing, publishing, collection agencies, deal structures, distribution, and new technologies and their impact on the music prod
Advanced Production Projects
In this capstone project class, instructor and classmates review and advise each class member at every step during the planning and production of two or more fully professional multitrack recording
Hip-Hop Production for Records
This course is designed to focus on the musical, vocal, and technical production skills in hip-hop record production.
Sound Reinforcement for Musicians
For non-MPED majors who wish to learn the principles of sound reinforcement encountered in clubs or recital halls.
Remixing for the Commercial Marketplace
This course focuses on pinpointing the musical concept and marketplace potential of remix productions, using recording studio and DAW technology to maximize emotional and sales impact.
Production and Business of Dance Music
This course allows the student to understand the history and business of dance music from its early disco format in the '70s and '80s to its wide variety of current styles and trends.
Creative Production Skills
This course takes the student through the fundamental steps of any music production project: defining the goals of a recording project with the artist or client; selecting composers, arrangers, pla
Masters Engineering Lab
This advanced engineering elective builds upon previously acquired recording and mixing skills.
Audio Implementation for Video Games
This course provides an immersion in the techniques and methodologies used in implementing sound and music assets into a video game environment.
Music Production for Records
This course is a study of the creative and business aspects of producing records. Emphasis is placed on the creative and aesthetic techniques of production.
Music Production and Engineering Internship
Monitored and evaluated professional work experience in an environment related to the music production and engineering major.
Surround Sound Techniques and Practices
This course is a survey of the history and techniques used in producing surround audio.
Sound Reinforcement Systems
This course explores techniques used for recording and reinforcing music on location.
Recording and Mix Techniques for Musicians
For non-MPED majors, this course is an introduction to modern recording and mixing techniques, oriented toward musicians with the need to record themselves and others in a typical home studio recor
Sound Reinforcement Lab
In this hands-on follow-up to MP-322, students practice setup and mixing of live ensembles and assist the audio staff at Berklee concerts and rehearsals in the Berklee Performance Center.
Hybrid Recording and Mixing
This course addresses the increasingly hybrid nature of recording and mixing practices in music production.