BSc (Hons) Live Sound Bachelor's degree at dBs Music

Explore the music, sound and events industries while developing the creative, collaborative, and professional skills needed to build a sustainable career in your chosen field.

Explore the core principles of live sound, including signal flow, gain structure, EQ and routing. Through practical tasks and system setup, you'll develop the skills to operate Front-of-House (FOH) in a range of live settings.

This module introduces the core scientific principles behind live sound, helping you understand how sound behaves and how this shapes your work in live sound reinforcement.

Build on your core FOH skills by working with digital mixing consoles, exploring features such as scene automation, dynamic processing, remote mixing and audio networking. You'll develop confidence working on digital desks, building efficient workflows and being able to adapt to a range of live mixing scenarios.

Get to grips with the core principles of loudspeaker systems in live sound. You'll explore speaker components, enclosure types, amplifier behaviour and placement, learning how to configure, optimise and troubleshoot systems for different venues and event scales.

You'll be introduced to the core planning and coordination processes required to deliver professional live sound in a range of performance environments. From creating stage plots, input lists and signal routing plans to how to manage technical prep, soundchecks and changeovers.

Building on Industry Foundations, this module focuses on professional development, including valuing your work and developing an understanding of contracts, rights management, and how to generate sustainable income long-term.

Learn how to design, configure and optimise sound systems, exploring key areas such as speaker types/coverage, power distribution, tuning and alignment. With students from the Live Sound & Event Management course, you'll learn to work collaboratively to design, deploy and manage systems.

This module provides you with the opportunity to develop an advanced understanding of computer systems and digital audio networking, with a specific focus on their application in live sound environments.

Explore how research can inform and expand your work in live sound. You'll investigate topics that matter to your practice, from audience behaviour and sustainability to event formats and cultural trends, while developing skills in critical thinking, project planning and reflective analysis that will support your final year portfolio and innovation work.

Discover the creative world of immersive audio, focusing on mixing and mastering in Dolby Atmos. Explore core principles of immersive sound, including object-based mixing, multichannel signal flow and spatial processing.

Explore the principles, tools and strategies of marketing and promotion within the music industry, including social media, digital distribution, content creation, how to communicate your message and build a presence.

Explore the principles, tools and strategies of marketing and promotion within the music industry, including social media, digital distribution, content creation, how to communicate your message and build a presence.

Develop the technical and creative skills needed for live recording and broadcasting through an exploration of capturing high-quality audio in live environments, managing multi-track recordings and delivering real-time broadcasts.

This module takes your live mixing skills to the next level, preparing you to take charge of complex sound environments with speed, precision, and creative control.

This is the beginning of your final-year innovation journey where you will challenge the conventions of your creative discipline and build on the technical, creative and research skills developed throughout your degree.

Plan, shape and build a professional portfolio that reflects your creative identity, strengths, and long-term goals, researching professional expectations, exploring formats and creating a strategy tailored to your sector.

Realise the work completed during the Innovation: Exploration module, bringing together your technical, creative, and research skills and taking your initial idea through to a completed outcome.

This module invites you to critically explore the cultural, social, and political dimensions of sound and music, applying research methodologies explored in Creative Research Practice.

Building on the Industry Portfolio Development module, you will finalise a body of work that aligns with your professional goals and presents your skills clearly to your intended audience.

Investigate how music can be used in educational, therapeutic and community settings as you explore its role in supporting learning, wellbeing and social connection.

This module will build your confidence, knowledge and adaptability to succeed in complex industry environments; equipping you with the professional skills needed to lead, manage and innovate in the industry.

This module explores how sound behaves in real environments and how to design loudspeaker systems that deliver clarity and impact across a range of venues.

Discover the fast-paced and collaborative world of festival production, with a focus on the advanced technical, logistical, and creative considerations required to deliver safe, high-quality environments for artists and audiences.