- Department of Music
- Admission
- Curriculum
- Ensembles
- People
- Faculty
- Dwight Bigler - choral activities
- Ivica Ico Bukvic - composition, multimedia
- Vernon Burnsed - music education
- Robert Chafin - voice
- Richard Cole - history, literature
- Tracy Cowden - piano, vocal coach
- Jason Crafton - trumpet, jazz
- Elizabeth Crone - flute
- Jay Crone - trombone, department head
- Travis J. Cross - conducting, wind ensemble
- Michael Dunston - audio, recording, media production
- Wallace Easter - horn
- John M. Floyd - percussion
- James Glazebrook - violin, viola, orchestra
- Kent Holliday - piano, composition
- John Howell - history, arranging, historical instruments
- John Husser - bassoon, saxophone
- David Jacobsen - flute, saxophone
- Stephen E. King - music education
- Paul Langosch - jazz studies
- David McKee - Marching Virginians, university bands
- George McNeill - Highty-Tighties
- Polly Middleton - Marching Virginians, Pep Band, Campus Band
- Kelly A. Parkes - music education
- James Sochinski - theory
- Patrick Turner - music technology
- John L. Walker - oboe
- Alan Weinstein - cello, bass
- David Widder - clarinet
- Ariana Wyatt - voice
- Staff
- Students
- Alumni
- ePortfolio Websites
- Faculty
- Outreach
- Giving
Digital Audio Recording and Production Studio
The Digital Audio Recording and Production Studio curriculum is complemented by a 3,500 square-foot multi-room facility with nine acoustically isolated rooms of varying characteristics and a 1988 Yamaha CF III concert grand piano. The main control room and classroom offers multichannel recording and mixing, surround sound monitoring and video projection. A second production room adds additional video, multimedia and DVD production capabilities.
The facility employs high-quality microphones, including a variety of large and small diaphragm condensers, tube and ribbon microphones from manufacturers such as Neumann, Earthworks, Royer, Peluso Labs, AKG, Shure, and Sennheiser. Our microphones are complimented by world-class, custom microphone preamplifiers, high-resolution custom A/D converters, a fully-automated Sony DMX-R100 digital mixing console, and both native and hardware-based digital audio workstations such as Logic Pro, Sonic Studio HD, and Sonic Studio Soundblade. Processing and metering tools include Metric Halo 80-bit +DSP hardware, software, and visualization tools as well as a variety of other software-based and outboard processing systems. A second production room adds Final Cut Studio, DVD Studio Pro and a variety of other software systems necessary for audio, video, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio production, as well as multimedia production in today's current and emerging high-resolution, multichannel and interactive formats.
Remote location recording capabilities include 48-channel multitrack recording, a Sony HD video camera, and a Soundfield MK-V ambisonics recording system for capturing three-dimensional, fully immersive acoustical events for production into traditional stereo, multichannel, and periphonic audio.
Contact Michael Dunston for more information: studio@vt.edu / (540) 231-9942
