This is a page of links to all kinds of useful sites for audio and music

General Recording Links

Synth links

The Big Guys - Companies working in Lots of Areas

Keyboards

Mixers

Outboard

Microphones & Headphones

Soundcards, Digital Audio Interfaces, DAW systems

Software

Macintosh links

College Courses

UK Retailers

 

Some General Recording Links

Netherlands Audio Links (International, Very Useful)	Audio Engineering Society
Doctor Audio	Yahoo Recording Info Links
About.com - Home Recording A highly useful site with lots of archived articles and weekly newsletter.	Professional Sound Magazine
TCSound's Pro Audio Tip of the Week	Audio Engineering Society
Doctor Audio	Apple - Design & Publishing - Music & Audio
D rake Music Project 2000 This is an organisation supporting disabled musicians. They have huge expertise in adapting MIDI and digital audio setups for recording and performance and have their own training scheme.	Hyperphysics - Georgia State University Taking it all back to the physics of sound there is some really useful information here on Accoustics, microphones and many other topics, with useful diagrams.
Omega Art - where mind meets matter	Stephan M. Sprenger's Audio DSP Pages
CuTips-Cubase Tips	What is a Synthesizer?
Music and Computers	Analog Modular Synthesis
Electronic Musical Instruments 1870 - 1990	Towards a Better Understanding of Stereo Microphone Techniques
Stereo Mic Techniques	Turner audio
Rane Professional Audio Reference (A)	RIM 456 Reproduction Modes
Modern Recording Techniques - Audio resources	TapeOp.com - The Creative Music Recording Web
Purgatory Creek - Tools for the e-Musician	Microphones
Ampthetex This is a young producer's site with some useful info - a really creditable effort.

Sites with synth patches and information

Korgy Park - for owners of Korg X5 and 05R/W series	Sonic State
http://www.vintagesynth.com/	Redshift's Synth Site
http://www.harmony-central.com/Synth/	http://www.synthzone.com/
Cyberden MIDI Hell - Synth Patches	JV1080 Webring HQ
Sweetwater.com - Kurzweil K200 Sounds	JV XP Experience: Resources
http://www.brainforest.com/sy99soft.htm	http://www.hyperreal.org/music/machines
http://www.fenderrhodes.org/rhodes/supersite/	http://www.wbmedia.com/ex5/

  Large Companies with many different products

Alesis	Yamaha Europe	Emu
Roland UK	Korg UK	Akai professional
Mackie	Tascam UK

Keyboards, Synthesisers, Samplers

Waldorf	Akai professional	Roland UK	Alesis
Korg UK	Big Briar (Bob Moog)	Doepfer	Elektron (Sidstation)
Emu	GEM	Kurzweil	Novation
Clavia	Hammond	Yamaha Synths	Access

Mixers

Mackie	Soundcraft	Roland	Tascam UK
Allen & Heath	Amek	Behringer	Sony Pro Audio
Soundtracs	D & R	SSL

Outboard - compressors, mic preamps, EQ units, noise gates, converters, effects units...

JOEMEEK World!	Element 78	Metric Halo Labs	Focusrite
TL Audio	MindPrint Processors	Aphex	Universal Audio
Presonus	Summit Audio	Amek	dbx
Behringer	Eventide	Drawmer	Digital Audio Denmark
Lexicon	Digitech	Dod	LA Audio
Manley Labs	Ridge Farm	Rocktron	Zoom

Microphones & Headphones

MXLMics	Oktava	AKG Accoustics	Beyerdynamic.com
Studio Projects	Audio-Technica	Red5 Audio	Royer Ribbon Mics
SE Electronics	AEA Ribbon Mics	ADK mics	Shure
DPA Microphones	Audix	Soundelux	Rode

Soundcards, Digital Audio Interfaces, DAW systems

RME	M Audio	Creamware	Lexicon
Digidesign	Steinberg	Mark of the Unicorn	Merging
Fairlight	Sadie	Sek'd	Aardvark
Echo	Guillemot	Soundscape	Sea Sound
Terratec	Sonic Foundry	Event	EgoSys

 Software

Waves	Muon	LinPlug	Magix
Celemony Software	TC Works	Cycling 74	BIAS
Steinberg	Syntrillium	Waves	Cakewalk

Macintosh Sites

 Search MacMusic's extensive links here

DAW-MAC

The Digital Audio Workstation site and list for Mac users - a site for ProTools users particularly

http://www.macrocks.com/

http://www.apple.com/publishing/music/  

COLLEGE COURSES

I started a page of links to UK colleges and other centres offering courses in Music Technology and related disciplines while still active with the Music Producers Guild Education Committee.

Please remember that just because I have a link to a college on this page, this does not mean that I (or the MPG) have looked at their courses and facilities and can recommend them. As a member of the Music Producers Guild UK Education Committee I was involved in serious discussions about how music industry professionals can raise the standards of these courses in the UK to the benefit of both students and the industry who may wish to employ them when they graduate. We participated in joint course validations with the music industry body the APRS, but this process was stalled somewhat due to the internal problems of that organisation. Please visit the MPG website to find latest news on this and for more information on its work with colleges, which includes one-off visits tours of colleges nationwide by leading professionals, giving students the rare chance to pick the brains of top producers and engineers about anything from contracts to compression.

Degree and Postgraduate level Courses

Gateway School of Recording (Kingston-on-Thames, Southwest London) is one centre which has APRS/MPG accreditation and does a variety of courses, both long and short.

School of Electronics, University of Glamorgan (Pontytpridd, South Wales) have a B.Sc in Music Technology. I may be biased here as a friend of mine runs the course, but staff are very motivated here and I have taught here myself and enjoyed using the studio.

London College of Music and Media, Thames Valley University (West London) offers degrees in Music Technology Music and Multimedia Technology Popular Music Performance and others.This is one college I have visited (in 2002) and I was very impressed with the standard of studio provision, both in build quality, standard of equipment and sheer number of studios available. Staff also seemed to have good industry experience and were very motivated to provide students with thorough background in the subject area.

SAE are an international provider of private courses in Sound Recording, with UK centres in North London and Glasgow and 16 others all over the world.

The Northern Centre for Performing Arts, Doncaster College (Yorkshire, North of England) offers a range of courses.

The Academy of Contemporary Music (Guildford, Surrey, Southeast England ) has degree and diploma courses in Contemporary Popular Music

Leeds College of Music (Yorkshire, North of England) offers courses from Diploma to HND and BA in Music Production

University of York does a degree in Music Technology and has specialised in Electronic music for many years

University of Westminster offer an MA in Audio Production and an MA In Music Business Management

City University offer a MSc/ Postgraduate Diploma in Music Information Technology

Birmingham Conservatoire in the University of Central England, Birmingham, English Midlands) BSc(Hons) Music Technology

University of Hertfordshire BSc in Music Technology

Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts are APRS accredited and have many useful courses in Performance, Recording and Music Business

University of Leeds BA Music and Electronic Engineering

University of Edinburgh Degree of Bachelor of Music Music Technology

Keele University Degree in Music Technology

University of Surrey Department of Sound Recording's Tonmeister degree course has a long history

Diploma/Higher National Diploma and other courses

Islington Music Workshop (North London) does diploma courses in SSL G+ Sound Recording and Music Technology.

The Institute of Music & Technology (Hurricane Studios) in Deptford, Southeast London offers City & Guilds and New Deal courses

Confetti Studios (Nottingham, English Midlands) offer Diploma and HND courses.

 UK Retailers

Emis Music	TSC	Advanced Sounds
Jarberry Music	Turnkey	Blue Systems
Digital Village	GAK	Boomerang Sounds
Music Control	Aaronsound	ROW Audio
The M Corporation	Electrofix Classifieds	Earth Music

Ika’s site offering Djembes Hand percussion African Drum By bali-treasures.com

General Recording Links

Synth links

The Big Guys - Companies working in Lots of Areas

Keyboards

Mixers

Outboard

Microphones & Headphones

Soundcards, Digital Audio Interfaces, DAW systems

Software

Macintosh Links

College Courses

UK Retailers

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