BA (Hons) Music Production & Sound Engineering 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.

Build foundational skills in digital music production using industry-standard software, while exploring diverse creative approaches that reflect your identity and artistic direction.

Develop practical studio skills and critical insight through hands-on experience, tailored workflows, and exploration of evolving production practices across genres and technologies.

This module builds creative and technical mixing skills, exploring tools, workflows, and techniques to gain the confidence and insight to make informed, artistic decisions in a professional mix environment.

Craft your own sonic style through explorations in creative recording techniques, hands-on experimentation, studio practice and collaborative projects.

Examine classic and contemporary recordings across multiple genres to train your critical listening skills and shape your own creative identity.

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.

This module builds on the Music Production module, further refining your creative and technical approach to music production and experimenting with unconventional creative approaches. You will explore advanced techniques in composition, arrangement, sound design, synthesis, and audio processing.

Explore how research can inform and expand your work as a producer. You'll investigate areas that inspire your practice, from music culture to genre, technology or technique, while developing skills in critical thinking, project planning and reflective analysis that will support your final year portfolio and innovation work.

This module focuses on advanced mixing and mastering techniques, including detailed approaches to EQ, dynamics processing, stereo imaging, harmonic enhancement, spatial depth, and mastering for a range of distribution formats.

Understand how sound behaves through an introduction to the core principles of acoustics and their practical application across music production, electronic composition, sound design and audio engineering.

Designed to develop composition, arrangement, and songwriting fundamentals, this module explores how arrangement choices can enhance storytelling and covers the core techniques in melody, harmony, rhythm, form, and texture.

Explore hardware-based music production tools and setups, including synthesisers, drum machines, samplers, modular systems, guitar pedals, vocal processors, and drum triggers, developing a hands-on approach to sound creation and production.

Create music for commercial use, learning the professional requirements for sync licensing, branded content and production libraries and exploring the roles of producers, songwriters, composers, and writers in different contexts.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Create a personalised technical system that supports your creative and professional trajectory, such as a custom production workflow, a sample instrument, an audio plug-in or a seamless live rig for performance.

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.

Design, develop and deliver an original creative project in collaboration with others. You will refine your creative identity while you contribute to a shared artistic vision.