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Even though the official opening of the Derby’s new STEM Centre isn’t until next academic year, Adam and Bruce have managed to gain special access to the building so that our undergraduate and postgraduate students can use the new hemi-anechoic chamber for their research and practical work. So far, we’re loving the new facility and...

Recently, the University has been putting together a virtual open day tour for the web (for VR and web).  In order to do this, we took a few 360 pictures of our resources. Here’s our dedicated Live Event Teaching Space – this is an example setup with a small example of the equipment we own...

Following being awarded a TPI Breakthrough Talent Award for FOH Engineer of the Year, BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event Technology graduate, James Coghlan, has made the shortlist for Monitor Engineer of the Year at this year’s TPi Awards . The awards will be announced at a ceremony at Battersea Evolution in London on 27...

Per Rasmussen, Technical Director at G.R.A.S., visited us last Thursday to give our staff and students a master class on measurement microphones. This was part of the G.R.A.S UK University Roadshow 2016. Per covered everything from the basics of how a condenser microphone operates, to going through the variables which shape the time and frequency...

One of our current MSc Audio Engineering students, Ross Hammond, has been featured in this month’s issue of Lighting and Sound International. Ross graduated with a 1st class degree from our BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event Technology programme and is the recipient of the Don and Fran Pearson Award from the Audio Engineering Society...