Point Blank Music School has opened a new facility near to its existing London base,
doubling its core production portfolio and increasing its longest available course
length from one to two years. This expansion brings a fresh new industry-focussed
element to the school for students looking to cultivate full time careers in
commercial music, film, broadcast, and games production. As part of this
development Point Blank has invested in the best and most commercially-relevant
production tools for its flagship Music Production & Sound Engineering Complete
Master Diploma. Headlining that investment is a new 48-channel SSL Duality δelta
SuperAnalogue™ console for the main studio.
“We’re a cutting edge music school,” says Rob Cowan, the Owner of Point Blank.
“And we want cutting-edge gear. That’s what the Duality is. If students are going to
go on and work in commercial studios, we need to train them on the best there is.”
The School has premises in London and Los Angeles, and is distinguished by the
wide variety of courses it offers – everything from music production and sound
engineering though live sound, song writing, singing, DJing, radio production, and
music business. “We’ve been training students on Logic and Ableton,” explains
Cowan, “…In one year taking them from not knowing anything to being competent
music producers.’
Duality is a large-format hybrid console that combines a superb analogue signal
path with exceptional DAW control and integration. TFT screens deliver complete
optical feedback of channel status and routing, while multi operator Total Recall
with channel autoscan allows more than one operator to recall the console. New to
Duality, the SSL δelta-Control plug-in harnesses DAW automation to read, write,
store, and edit console automation – ideal for a busy control room.
The new Point Blank facility incorporates seven studios and training rooms –
including a live recording area – all connected to a central space that the school is
calling ‘The Hub’. This relaxing space encourages student collaboration, while
providing a perfect venue for master classes. “Students can hang out, but we can
also do workshops in there,” says Cowan. “We can easily rearrange the furniture
and comfortably accommodate up to around 70 people. It’s fantastic for when we
host guest producers and artists, and so on.’
Cowan refers to the Duality room as both a studio and a classroom in one: “That is
our number one space – a showpiece studio where we’re going to teach more
advanced sound engineering, more advanced mixing. That’s where the Duality is
really going to come into its own.
Prospective students can find out more about the two year Music Production &
Sound Engineering Complete Master Diploma course at the Point Blank School of
music via the Music Production section of its website.
