Behind every clean broadcast voice, polished song or dramatic sound effect sits a sound engineer's decisions – choices most audiences never notice consciously, but instantly feel when they are missing. Over the past few decades the craft has evolved fast: sound engineering can now reshape audio quality, hide imperfections and bring out the beauty in a recording, whether that means adding effects and custom music to a television production, enhancing an advertisement, or shaping a song's rhythm from fast to slow to classical.

The Arab British Fellowship Training Academy built this Modern Sound Engineering Methods course for anyone who wants to learn these techniques properly: audio re-recording, filtering, and the modern software used for sound work worldwide.

Target Audience:

• Managers and owners of television channels and radio stations.
• Managers of the sound engineering department in television production companies, and all personnel working in it.
• All personnel involved in audio re-recording, and in sound purification and filtering in the studio.

Knowledge and Benefits:

This course equips participants with new skills and effectively activates their abilities through:

• Introducing sound, its specifications and unit of measurement, and explaining the elements of sound and how to handle them.
• Introducing analog and digital audio signals and how to work with them.
• Familiarising participants with various recording devices and their usage methods, and with microphones, their types and how to use them.
• Familiarising participants with recording studios, their setup methods and standard ratios.

• Module 1: Understanding Sound and How the Ear Works
  • The human ear, its structure and how it captures sound vibrations.
  • Elements of sound and their characteristics, and how to work with them.
  • Analog and digital audio signals: the difference between them and the recording method for each.
• Module 2: Recording Equipment and Studio Setup
  • Analog and digital recording devices, and the different media used for recording.
  • Microphones: types, characteristics and stands.
  • Recording studios and how to prepare them (control room or studio floor), including their standard ratios.
  • Speakers: types (portable and stationary) and distribution methods.
• Module 3: Editing and Mixing Techniques
  • Audio editing and mixing using non-linear recording devices on computers.
  • Mixing audio for film versus television, and the difference between the two.
  • Isolating and mixing different sounds through non-linear editing devices.
• Module 4: Professional Software and Advanced Curricula
  • Advanced global curricula in the art of sound engineering.
  • The latest software used in sound engineering work.
  • Skills for working with Pro Tools for audio editing.
• Module 5: Applied Sound Engineering Skills
  • Skills for recording audio in the studio (songs and music), and sound engineering work within television programmes.
  • Skills for working with audio filters, sound balancing, purification and filtering.
  • Skills for adding sound effects during programmes, video clips or audio recordings, plus hands-on practical training.
• Module 6: Course Delivery – Venues and Formats
  • Courses are held across Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Turkey, England, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Australia and the United States, at times and locations suited to your schedule.
  • Delivery formats include group training at academy-affiliated centres, individual training, field and practical training based on advanced curricula, and theoretical training in dedicated halls within the academy.
• Module 7: Certification and Custom Arrangements
  • Participants receive a certified certificate from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy upon completing the course.
  • The course can be delivered at a time and place that suits you, including to high-level standards for VIP participants – contact the Academy's team for details.