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The Montco Advantage

Studying under such accomplished faculty members as multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated engineer, and producer, David Ivory, along with his selected team of award-winning professional instructors, you will gain a comprehensive background in sound recording, music production and music technology comparable to the first two years at a conservatory or other universities. All of our instructors are currently professionals in the music and entertainment industry, thus providing amazing opportunities for our students through the instructors’ current contacts.

Classes are held at Blue Bell and Pottstown campuses featuring state-of-the-art recording studios, computer labs and various mixing consoles designed to give the student experience on mixing consoles found in the types of professional studios they may work in after graduation. The Blue Bell campus hosts a new, cutting-edge, professional mixing suite with the much sought-after Solid-State Logic SSL 9000k 56 input console as well as the latest in Dolby Atmos mixing on our Genelec 7.1.4 system. The SRT courses provide hands-on exposure in all aspects of recording.

Learn from Experience

Curious as to where your career can go? The SRT and MSP programs host Master Classes where industry professionals visit the campus to talk about career options, how they became successful, and how students can be successful in the music industry. Thanks to the practical, real-world experiences gained in the program, you will be able to use your skills after graduation to find entry-level work in the recording industry. You can also transfer to a four-year institution to continue your studies.

Dolby Atmos

Dolby Atmos is one of the most significant developments in surround sound technology over the past decade. As a new object-oriented audio format, Atmos gives movie directors, audio engineers, and now music artists (with Apple Music’s spatial audio) the ability to add a sense of ”height” or “elevation” to their presentation of sound. Compared to traditional surround sound systems where the left, right, center, side and rear speakers are arranged around you for two dimensions of surround, Dolby Atmos height speakers add a third dimension of overhead sound to your soundstage. Now you can listen to music as if you are actually on stage. Learn Atmos mixing as well as the finest stereo mixing in the SRT Program.

Theater

The newly renovated theater provides real-world learning experiences for students. They’ll be recording video as well as recording and mixing audio performances, and that’s going to make a difference when they interview for professional jobs. The theater will provide invaluable opportunities for students to engage in professional production, which is unique for a college.

Program outcomes

• Integrate knowledge and theory of recording industry, sound recording and music technology into productions;
• Use professional sound recording techniques and tools to record, engineer and edit music productions as well as conceive, plan, write, record and edit pieces, projects and production packages;
• Create a professional portfolio including résumé, reel, personal statement and other promotional materials in both print and online;
• Apply knowledge of guitar or piano, tonal harmony, and aural theory to a performance and through productions;
• Apply practical knowledge of terminology, process, procedures and use of current technology to entry-level employment in the recording industry and sound recording field.

 

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Program Curriculum

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• ^A Satisfies Aesthetic Sensibility
• ^C Satisfies Cultural Awareness & Diversity
• ^E Satisfies Ethical Perspectives
• ^I Information Literacy is Reinforced
• ^O Satisfies Oral Communication
• ^Q Satisfies Quantitative Reasoning
• ^S Satisfies Scientific Reasoning
• ^T Satisfies Technological Fluency
• ^W Satisfies Written Communication

*Choose One for Discipline History Elective
MSP 213 Rock and Roll, Radio, and the Recording Industry, SRT 214 The Evolution of Sound Recording Technology, or MUS 111 Popular Music in America (1900-Present)

**Choose One for Workshop Elective
SRT 130 Software Workshop I or SRT 131 Live Sound Recording and Reinforcement Workshop I

*** Choose One for Workshop Elective
SRT 230 SRT Software Workshop II or SRT 231 Live Sound Recording and Reinforcement Workshop II

++All students must either pass a fundamental musicianship placement test OR take MUS 120 (Fundamentals) before taking any course marked with ++.

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