Located at the Herb Alpert School of Music OMC #150 (Across from the OMC café)
Mission Statement
Our mission is to cultivate care and imagination with regard to recording arts, expand our students’ daily way of listening, and facilitate collaborations among performance, composition, education, arts, sciences, and humanities. We do so by offering a designed acoustic space, state-of-the-art equipment, staff expertise, and generous studio time. By supporting faculty and students’ recording projects and music technology classes, along with their development of critical listening and the production of sound libraries, we add unique value to investigations around music recording techniques, sound perception, experimentation with composition and performance, the preservation of instruments’ and voices’ sound, and critical thinking.
Quick facts
- Live room size: 1442 sq. ft. to accommodate 40-50 musicians
- Percussion isolation booth
- Vocal isolation booth
- Pro Tools HD system
- Console: SSL Duality 72 channels (Analog console)
Reserve the Studio
Students and faculty can reserve studio time using our online recording project application form
Recording Studio Usage Fees
While the use of the recording studio for School of Music faculty and students is generally free of charge, the recording studio committee approved a number of external and internal fees in order to rationalize and optimize the use of the recording studio.
1. Usage fee for non-UCLA affiliated: $250/hour (engineer included)
2. Usage fee for UCLA affiliated (other than School of Music): $150/hour (engineer included)
3. Usage fee for external projects sponsored by the Department Chair (NB: sponsorship must be based on the project’s furthering of the educational or research mission of the department): $75/hour
· To sponsor external projects, the Department Chair must submit an online form
· The $75/hour fee can be covered by the Department or by the sponsored user
· The $75/hour fee includes the engineer rate and administrative overhead
4. Usage fee for students and faculty “after hours” requests: $75/hour
· The studio has a budget to operate 40/hours a week. In the event that the studio is needed during a week where the 40 hours are already scheduled, the applicant must cover the cost of the engineer and administrative overhead ($75.00)
· The studio is booked on a first-come-first-served model so that this fee can always be avoided with sufficient planning
5. Late rescheduling or cancellation fee (less than two weeks’ notice): $50 per session
· To avoid this fee, rescheduling must be requested by the sponsoring faculty at least two weeks in advance.
· Since the studio is hiring external recording engineers, canceled sessions are very disruptive for the engineers, who may not be available for rescheduled sessions
Summary of Usage Fees
HASoM Students and Faculty | UCLA Affiliated | Not affiliated | |
---|---|---|---|
Studio time (including recording engineer) | No charge | $150.00/hour | $250.00/hour |
Sponsored external projects | - | $75/hour | $75/hour |
“After hours” request | $75/hour | - | - |
Late cancellation penalty ( < 2 weeks’ notice) | $50/project | $50/hour | $50/hour |
Equipment description | REF | Qty |
---|---|---|
Mixing Console | SSL Duality SE -72 | 1.0 |
Surround 5.1 Speakers (L-C-R) | ATC ASL300 Pro | 3.0 |
Surround 5.1 Speakers (LS-LR) | SCM45A pro (pair) | 1 |
Surround 5.1 Speakers (subwoofer) | ATC SCM0.1-15 | 1.0 |
Digital Audio Workstation Core | Avid Pro Tools|HDX2 | 1.0 |
Audio interface | AVID HD 16 Analog | 3.0 |
DAW Sync interface | AVID sync | 1.0 |
Digital audio clock | Rosendahl nanoclocks GL | 1.0 |
Audio Effects Processor | TC Electronics System 6000 MKII, Music | 1.0 |
Audio Effects Processor | Bricasti M7 | 2.0 |
Channel strip | Avalon design VT737SP | 1.0 |
Channel StripA | Millennia STT-02 (STT-1) | 2.0 |
Dynamics Procesor | Millenia Media TCL-2 | 1.0 |
EQ | Retro Inst 2A3 | 1 |
Compressor | Distressor EL8X-S | 4 |
Limiter | Universal Audio’s 1176 LN | 1 |
Dynamic microphone | Shure sm-57 | 9.0 |
Dynamic microphone | Shure SM-7 | 2.0 |
Cardiod condencer microphone | Shoeps CMC64G-set MK22 | 2.0 |
Ribbon microphone | Beyerdynamic M160 | 2.0 |
Dynamic microphone | Beyerdynamic M88 TG | 2.0 |
Cardiod condencer microphone | Neumann KM184 | 4.0 |
Tube condencer microphone | Neumann M149 | 2.0 |
Tube condencer microphone | Neumann M147 | 2.0 |
Condencer microphone | Sennheiser MKH800 | 2.0 |
Omni condencer microphone | Sennheiser MKH20 | 2.0 |
Cardiod condencer microphone | Sennheiser MKH40 | 4.0 |
Cardiod condencer microphone | Sennheiser MD421 | 4.0 |
Ribbon microphone | Coles 4038 1 | 2 |
Ribbon microphone | AEA R84 | 2 |
Condencer microphone | Neumann U87 Ai | 2 |
Tube microphone | Brauner VM1 | 2 |
Clip microphone | DPA 4099 | 1 |
Headphones | Sony MDR-7506 | 20 |
One ear headphones | BEYERDYNAMIC DT102 400OHM/GREY | 50 |
Headphone distributor | Aviom AN16/I | 2.0 |
Headphones Net distributor | Aviom A-16D Pro A-Net Distributor | 1.0 |
Headphone Mixer | Aviom A 16II | 16 |
Headphone distribution box | Little Red Cue Box | 12 |
Heavy duty Mic Stand and Boom | K&M 210/9 | 30.0 |
Heavy duty short Mic Stand and Boom | K&M 25950 | 10.0 |
Desk mic stand 8" to 13" height adjust | Atlas sound DS7 | 4.0 |
Studio boom stand | Atlas sound SB36WE | 8.0 |