School and College Outreach.

Visits to Spirit Studios are free*.

Bring your students to Spirit Studios for the day and take part in a range of creative workshops and learning experiences. Take a tour around our state of the art recording studios and production facilities, learn about the career opportunities available in the music and audio industries and the courses Spirit Studios has to offer.

Facilitated by our expert tutors, our hands-on workshops can be tailored to your students’ needs.  Popular workshops include:

Drum Recording & Production

Learn how to mic up, tune, overdub and record a full drum kit. From acoustics and tonal changes to recording and mixing techniques, this workshop will provide the students with the skills and knowledge to perfect drums ready to record in a track.

Studio Practice & Composition

An introduction to the creative process behind capturing and composing sounds. From understanding microphones and tracking instruments to found sounds and creative composition, your students will learn the basic fundamentals of studio production and the skills required to compose music within a studio environment.

Electronic Music Production 

Learn the fundamentals of electronic music production. With access to their own workstation, your students will have access to industry standard software, plugins and hardware from Apple, Ableton, Native Instruments and more.

Music Performance

This workshop will split the students into groups of 2 or 3 students with the aim of them writing and performing their own compositions in a DAW. Utilising worksheets provided the groups will have all the tools needed to programme drums, write chord progressions and craft their own lyrics into a song.

Live Sound Engineering 

Learn the fundamentals of live sound and the roles associated with live sound engineering. Your students will have the opportunity to get hands-on with both analogue and digital consoles and will work towards a live performance at the end of the session.

Music Business

Want to create your dream festival lineup. With this session your students will learn everything that’s required  to organise a music festival. They will have the opportunity to look into the logistics of planning the event from placing stages, bars, food trucks as well as amenities such as the emergency services. Looking into how to arrange a lineup; considering all the different timings and logistics required.

Sound for Visual Media

Looking to explore the world of post production. This session will offer a chance for your students to gain an understanding of Foley, ADR and sound design  techniques in order to bring to life a piece of media. This session will offer the chance for your students to record their own foley sounds in our dedicated dead room and learn how to edit and mix the recordings for a moving image.

Mixing 

This session will take students through the mixing process whilst introducing different concepts and techniques to take their mixes to the next level, This workshop can be held in our suites with the opportunity for each student to put into practise with stems provided. Alternatively we can offer this session in the studio environment incorporating both “in the  box” and “out of the box” workflows.

Enquire about a visit

*Under certain circumstances, such as special curriculum visits or multiple visits in an academic year for the same pupils, we may need to apply a small fee to cover costs. Any such costs will be agreed before confirming your booking.

We’ll come to you and provide a masterclass on a subject of your choice, along with a discussion on the career opportunities available in the music and audio industries.  We’ll also go through the courses Spirit Studios has to offer.

Compared to Spirit Studios Visits, we’re more limited in terms of what masterclasses we can provide simply down to the facilities available. Our expert tutors will bring a laptop and equipment they need. They will just need to be able to plug into a projector and a pair of speakers.

Enquire about a visit

We’ll come to you via Zoom and provide a masterclass on a subject of your choice, along with a discussion on the career opportunities available in the music and audio industries and the courses Spirit Studios has to offer.

Compared to Spirit Studios Visits, we’re more limited in terms of what workshops and masterclasses we can provide simply down to the less hand-on nature of a virtual experience.

Enquire about a visit

We’re available to attend careers fairs and exhibitions. We’d love to hear about your event. We may be able to bring equipment to provide some interactive elements to our stand.

Enquire about a visit