Music Creative Spaces

The Music Depart­ment has a num­ber of practice rooms and rehearsal spaces, many equipped with pianos, drum kits and/or ampli­fiers. All music majors have access to these facil­i­ties to rehearse indi­vid­u­ally or in small groups.

Contact

Students may contact the music office (351 Ryder, 617-373-2440) for details on how to access these spaces.  Fac­ulty may reserve times from the depart­ment admin­is­tra­tive assis­tant by call­ing 617-373-2776.

The Music Department Piano Lab is used for the Music Department’s Piano Class course. When not being used for instruction, this lab is available for student practice. To use the Piano Lab outside of class hours, you must be a music major or minor, taking music lessons, a student enrolled in Piano Class, or taking part in one of our ensembles.

Contact

Contact the music department main office (351 Ryder Hall, (617) 373-2440) for access details.

Calendar: 

These hours are subject to change based on staffing.

The Music Depart­ment reg­u­larly holds con­certs at Northeastern’s Fen­way Cen­ter, which is just off Hunt­ing­ton Ave, Boston’s “Avenue of the Arts.

The Fen­way Cen­ter is equipped with a stage, light­ing, micro­phones, sound sys­tem, and rock and orches­tral instru­ments. For Music Tech­nol­ogy con­certs, a high-quality 14-speaker sound dif­fu­sion system can be con­fig­ured around the audi­ence, cre­at­ing a fully immer­sive lis­ten­ing expe­ri­ence. Stu­dents can com­pose works on mul­ti­ple tracks specif­i­cally for the speaker sys­tem, or they can per­form the spa­tial­iza­tion dur­ing the con­cert (live sound diffusion).

The sound dif­fu­sion sys­tem con­tains the fol­low­ing speakers:

• (4) Mackie 1521z
• (4) Mackie HR824
• (4) Mackie MR8
• (2) JBL sub-woofers

Location: 77 St. Stephens St

The studio is available to authorized students 7 days a week. Students can gain individual access after they have taken the Recording 1 and Recording 2 courses. Recording 2 is a production course and takes place in Studio A, students taking Recording 2 have access to the studio as a requirement of the class.

Equipment:

• MacPro computer with 2 Apple 27”monitors
• Avid ProTools HD II with 2 PCIe cards
• Avid 192 ProTools interface
• Avid C|24 ProTools controller
• Avid ProTools HD v.10.3
• Waves Gold plug-ins
• McDSP plug-ins
• Sonnox plugins
• Universal Audio plugins
• Avid plugins
• AutoTune plugin
• Genelec 8040A monitor speakers
• Yamaha C3 grand piano
• Guitar Amplifiers from Peavey, Fender, and Line 6
• Yamaha Drum with Zildjian cymbals
• Full patch bay system
• AKG K-240 and K140 monitor headphones
• A wide variety of professional microphones including Shure, AKG, Crown, E-V, Countryman, Sony, Sennheiser, and others.

Studio B is an 8.1 surround sound recording and mixing facility dedicated to instruction and completion of independent compositions by Music Technology students.

Music Technology students have priority access to this space and can reserve time 7 days a week.

Equipment:

• Mac Pro
• Digidesign 003 Rack
• (8) Genelec 8040A studio monitors (surround sound)
• (1) Genelec 7060B subwoofer
• (2) AKG 414 microphones
• Millennia HV-3C stereo microphone pre-amp
• WhisperRoom sound isolation booth
• 60-inch Sony Bravia HDTV
• Emulator E-Synth keyboard and controller
• Kurzweil K2600s
• Kurzweil K2600r
• M-Audio Axiom keyboard controller
• Pro Tools (with Avid Production Toolkit expansion)
• Peak Studio XT
• DSP Quattro sound editing software
• Sound Soap Pro
• Bias Mastering Perfection Suite
• Complete GRM Tools plug-in suite
• Waves Platinum plug-in suite
• Sibelius notation software
• Max/MSP
• Klingbeil Spear spectral analysis/resynthesis software

Studio C offers a state-of-the-art production environment in a classroom setting.

Many of the department’s Recording and Composition courses are taught in this space. Outside of class times, students use this studio for their own projects and can reserve time 7 days a week. In addition to a 5.1 surround sound system, the studio is equipped with the following hardware and software:

Equipment:

• MacPro computer with 27” Apple monitor
• Sony 55” video monitor
• Avid 003 ProTools interface
• Avid C24 ProTools controller
• Avid ProTools
• Bias Peak Audio Pro
• Max/MSP
• Bias Mastering Perfection Suite plug-ins
• Bias Sound Soap Pro plug-in
• Waves plugins
• McDSP plugins
• Universal Audio plugins
• AutoTune plugin
• Avid plugins
• GRM-Tools plug-ins
• Genelec 8040A monitor speakers (stereo)
• Mackie HR 824 monitors speakers (5.1) with subwoofer
• Pioneer DVD player (DVD, SACD, DVD-A playback)
• Denon CD player
• Otari MTR-12 tape recorder-player

Studio D is a recording/production studio primarily used by upperclassmen for editing and mixing.

Equipment:

• Mac Pro computer with 2 Apple 20” monitors
• Avid 003 ProTools interface
• Avid Control 24 ProTools controller
• Avid ProTools 10 v.10.3
• Waves Gold plugins
• McDSP plugins
• AutoTune plugin
• Avid plugins
• Universal Audio plugins
• Genelec 8040A monitors speakers
• AKG K-240 headphones

Studio E is a single-station Mac-based studio that allows students to mix and master their music on state-of-the-art equipment and loudspeakers.

Music technology students have priority access to this space and can reserve time 7 days a week. The studio is equipped with the following hardware and software:

Hardware:

• Mac Pro
• Mackie MR8 speakers
• Emulator E-Synth keyboard and controller
• Kurzweil K2600s
• Kurzweil K2600r

Software:

• Pro Tools
• DSP Quattro sound editing software
• Sibelius notation software
• Max/MSP
• Klingbeil Spear spectral analysis/resynthesis software

The Music Depart­ment has a num­ber of rehearsal spaces for stu­dents con­cen­trat­ing on a music degree, reg­is­tered for private lessons, or enrolled in music department ensem­bles.

Contact

Contact the music department main office (351 Ryder, 617-373-2776) for access details.