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Alongside specialist technical knowledge, including the use of mastering tools, signal flow, and level control, ear training plays an important role in the curriculum. Mastering engineers learn not only to identify characteristic features of different musical styles but also to hear frequency boosts and cuts.
Deutsche POP’s training rooms are distinguished by a particularly atmospheric and comfortable interior and are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment. For the Mastering Engineer programme, students can use dedicated mastering studios in addition to the recording studios. Deutsche POP places great emphasis on practical work. “Learning by doing provides the best preparation for subsequent professional life,” says Academy Director Christian Einsiedel.
Course modules generally comprise four teaching hours per week. Tutorials, study and practice time, and practical projects are added to this.
Courses begin four times a year, in January, April, July, and October, allowing flexible entry according to personal circumstances.
Teaching - What Is Lived Is Taught
Only active professionals are used as instructors, enabling students to benefit directly from their expertise and experience. Unlike purely educational institutions, the academy is closely connected with music and media production operation music support group, the company behind the academy, which offers many music and media services and products from a single source, from studio recording to the finished CD.