Leading Turkey in its exclusive focus on music education, Ankara Music University has invested in a 24-channel Audient ASP8024-HE console for its Music Technology department.
With each studio doubling up as a classroom, Head of Music Technology, Associate Professor Dr Abdurrahman Tarikçi – who specified the console choice – needed to be confident that the desk would be of good quality and durable, as well as suited to the university’s educational applications.
‘One of the most important features for us is definitely the integrated patchbay system,’ he says. ‘Thanks to this, we can explain the signal flow chain in great detail to our students and teach the subtleties of manipulating the audio signal in new and different ways. In addition, it is possible to introduce both analogue mixers and DAW controllers on the same system by using the Dual Layer Control.’
The recording studio boasts a viewing gallery that can be transformed into a recording studio when necessary. Integrated screens beam every move the professor makes into the upper room while they listen through studio monitors, making it ideal for teaching. The addition of screens in each recording booth and the projector in the main recording room means there is also the capability of recording sound for moving pictures.
‘The senior students are expected to complete a number of recording projects as a part of the curriculum in order to graduate,’ Tarikçi adds. ‘As such, dozens of new projects are set to be produced at the end of each year, and this is in addition to the video music works and ongoing film music productions.’
The university was founded in 2017 and comprises four faculties, one institute and a vocational school, on its 23,600sq-m facility in Ankara.
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