Students in studioRecording has become an essential part of every musician's training. At Southwestern, our students get outstanding training and opportunities in our state-of-the-art professional studio. Since it was built in 1992, $200,000 has gone into building and updating the studio.

The spacious studio boasts one large recording room and three isolation rooms of various sizes, all self-contained and designed for sound isolation.  The main recording room houses a beautiful baby grand piano. Outfitted with a C24 mixing console, Roland Fantom G8 synth, Focusrite 828's, and an Apogee Ensemble interface, the SMV studio is well equipped to handle the daily usage by SMV students. The recording studio is also furnished with a separate home-studio setup. 

In class, students work with industry-standard Pro Tools and Logic software to record and produce music, both with live instruments and voices, as well as with sequenced/sampled (MIDI) instruments. Music majors have opportunities each year to serve as recording engineers, and all music majors take two semesters of recording studio production: the first semester, students learn to produce their own demos, while during the second semester, students learn to write for, record, and mix music for movies, as well as animated cartoons.

Students enjoy a huge selection of professional quality studio microphones including AKG 414's, Neumann TLM 103's, and RODE NTK's, which are all widely considered some of the finest in the recording industry today.  With the excellent facilities and hands-on approach studio classes offer, students graduate with a solid foothold regarding the ins and outs of the recording industry.