Your learning experience

• Start working with industry standard microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio work stations in the first trimester.
• Develop high-level skills on industry-standard software, including Pro Tools and Logic.
• Master your craft on small and large format consoles and record the music genres you are interested in.
• Get practical experience in live sound, electronic music, audio post production, and audio for film and television.
• Work with artists, designers, web, mobile and games developers, film makers, and animators.
• Learn the principles of sound and audio technology – crucial knowledge for specialists in the audio industry.
• Build your knowledge and skills on, and have access to, industry standard equipment and studio spaces.
• Be part of a team that nurtures your talents, and encourages you to reach your learning potential.
• Enjoy the benefits of being SAE trained – our audio students have achieved great success in the creative media industries. SAE graduates are known within the industry for their high-level skills and are in demand.

ASSOCIATE DEGREE OF AUDIO

The Associate Degree of Audio program is broken up into discrete stages, each designed to promote different skills.

Stage I – Foundational Skills Development
In Stage I, students will undertake a number of foundational units which will give students the essential technical skills and knowledge not only relevant to the chosen discipline area, but also give students the skills required to collaborate with other creative media students and professionals in later stages of the Audio course.

• Introduction to audio engineering
• Microphones and signal processing
• Principles of sound
• Digital audio
• DAW operation
• Working with artists
• Project management and professional etiquette
• Critical and creative thinking
• Contemporary industry overview

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Stage II – Interdisciplinary Projects, Media and Cultural Studies
In Stage II we show students how their Audio work contributes to and interacts with broader culture and media practice. This knowledge will enable students to work with a variety of other disciplines and artists and expand their potential on the global stage.

Students complete a number of real-world projects with students not only in their own discipline, but also in all other SAE disciplines.

Stage II has three studio modules with projects based on the following areas;

1. Studio Production

Students wishing to extend their studio production skills will work on large-scale commercial audio desks in both analogue and digital format from both audio engineering and music producing roles, acoustics, outboard effects and microphones. Develop a complete understanding of the sound aesthetic from a technological level to a production level and use your skills to mix and master tracks from recording through to the final product.
In addition to large consoles, you will use a variety of equipment found in current audio industry practice, including in-the-box systems and cutting edge hardware and software controller technology to achieve the same outcomes expected in traditional studio environments.

2. Post Production

Students with a post-production focus will incorporate audio with the moving image. This includes audio for film, games and animation with creation and manipulation of the entire sonic environment of multimedia.
Explore location audio using various microphone techniques for ambient sounds as well as dialogue and sound effects. Develop skills in automatic dialogue replacement (ADR), Foley and sound design.
Students will look deeper into the aesthetics of literal and non-literal sound and the techniques of mixing for immersive sound formats and environments.

Stage III
Only students who progress to the Bachelor of Audio will be eligible to undertake Stage III. In Stage III, students undertake a project of their own design. Students also undertake work placement to finalize the development of their professional skills in a real work placement setting.

Stage III is NOT included in the Associate Degree.