This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.
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The Certificate of Achievement in Audio Recording is designed for students who want to learn how to record and mix sounds in a variety of different applications. Students will learn the basics of recording hardware and software and will work in an extremely hands-on environment with abundant opportunities to engage in actual recording sessions. Housed in the state-of-the-art Chabot College recording studio & technology lab, this program offers a streamlined, efficient pathway for emerging audio engineers to establish a solid foundation of technical and aesthetic knowledge to begin working in the largely freelance and project-based creative music industry.
Completion of this certificate, while not a requirement for entry into the music industry, will provide students with a solid foundation for primarily freelance and project-based work. This includes but is not limited to the following areas: music recording, music mixing, audio editing, and live concert sound reinforcement. With labor market research showing an undersupply of Audio Recording workers, teaching students foundations for relevant vocational training in the new music industry guides their chances towards filling employment positions. As such, the Music Recording & Technology program at Chabot College seeks to provide students with a broad, dynamic package of courses and completion options. This will provide the best possible point of departure for becoming our future sound engineering technicians, Audio/Video equipment technicians and a wide variety of other audio career pathways that are in need in today’s music industry.