Our A level courses are delivered by a well established, highly skilled team of subject specialists. We would be delighted to show you around the department, discuss course content, explain how we support students' learning  - in and beyond the classroom, and talk about the wider musical opportunities available at

This is a course for anyone who has an interest in how music and sound is recorded, manipulated and produced. This course is all about working in a studio based environment, making and refining recordings using live and synthesised instruments. The hands-on creative

Technical numeracy is the understanding and correct use of numerical data as applicable to music technology tasks. This resource explores how numerical units are used in Music Technology, MIDI data, and binary data. It also investigates how to interpret information graphically, wave properties and calculations, and

This resource explores compression, delay, distortion, EQ, gates, modulation effects and reverb.

This resource explore what mastering is, how is it different to mixing, and the processes involved. What is the 'Loudness War'? What is remastering? What are digital remasters and how can remastering improve historic recordings?

This resource explores how Reverb (the reverberations of a sound in a space/room) can be used to add ambience and atmosphere to recordings.

In audio terms, the word “dynamic” is used to describe a range in levels between the quietest and the loudest peaks. Dynamics processing is the process of altering the dynamic range of an audio source to make it easier to place in the overall mix. This

This resource looks at the ways in which distortion offers a range of textural and lo-fi effects. It is an effect most commonly found in hard-edged, gritty music production. Distortion was initially avoided in the recording signal chain wherever possible, e.g. by carefully monitored levels