Last week I took my Communications Technology classes to visit Metalworks studios and institute to see how audio engineering is done at the post-secondary and professional level.
We were taken on a tour of the studio to see where artists
record, where engineers use the million dollar soundboard to mix music, the
post-production equipment and even the stage and lighting warehouses. We saw
where musicians such as Rush, Prince, Feist, and Drake have worked and recorded
and how many different kinds of jobs there are in the industry.
The million-dollar soundboard:
The sub-woofer that Prince gave the studio after recording with it:
The final production details are added in the final mixing room: