FACILITIES
Studios A and B
 Studio A at Lamar State College - Port Arthur Recording Studios includes a control room windowed into small and large recording studios, complete with separate editing and isolation booths. The control room is home to two of the most widely used recording and production programs in the music industry today. Pro Tools HD system running onboard a Macintosh quad core G5 computer provides the core studio software for recording, editing, and mixing. With capabilities for recording up to 24 different sources at once with the massive amounts of processing from the 4 computer processors and HD Accel card, this system handles any full recording project. It is also stocked with some of the finest audio processing plug-ins, ranging from equalization and compression to reverb and delay effects. At the forefront is the Control  24 control surface, which has revolutionized mixing inside the Pro Tools software environment as compared to the standard environment of five years ago. We no longer have to rely on moving faders and knobs inside the program with a keyboard and mouse as a result of this control surface technology.
Studio A comes complete with a fully stocked microphone cabinet. Students will have access to some of the best studio microphones in the business, such as Neumann, AKG and Royer.
The second program in Studio A is a custom designed Windows PC running Nuendo Media production software. This is a dual processor system used for composing music in the digital world  by use of a coding system called MIDI and use of software instruments that are pre-loaded into the system. With this type of horsepower and the power of MIDI, a musician with engineering skills can easily compose an entire symphony on this single machine, choosing from thousands of actual sampled sounds from the world's best musicians. In addition, the Nuendo system performs mixing and audio functions, even though its concentration is mainly focused on composition and creation.
Studio B, the newest addition to the LSC-PA recording suite, includes a control area powered by a PC-based system running Cubase 4 and a recording booth. This newest member of our family exposes and trains students to be ready to function in the real-world circumstance of encountering a PC-based studio environment.  And to top it off, Studios A and Studio B have connectivity via permanently installed, wall mounted patch boards.
With processing from Manley and Universal Audio and Pre-Amps from Avalon, Universal Audio and Focusrite, the Lamar State College - Port Arthur Recording Studios have a vast selection from which to record signal and playback in the cleanest and purest way possible.
The LSC-PA Performing Arts Center
ommercial Music and Academic Music programs are housed in the new six million dollar Lamar State College-Port Arthur Performing Arts Center on the west side of the campus. This facility includes a theater wing whichfeatures a beautiful 400-seat theater will full-proscenium stage, fly gallery, scene shop, black box theater, faculty offices, (and last, but not least. our brand new Yamaha C7 Grand Piano which lives in its piano garage offstage right!)
This incredible facility also includes a visual arts area, liberal arts classrooms, and…
…our music wing where you will find…
- Lamar State College - Port Arthur Recording Studios
- Large and small rehearsal rooms
- Practice rooms
- Music classrooms, including a surround-sound lecture hall
- Piano lab equipped with 16 weight-action, 88-key, Roland KF7 pianos, and teacher control board
- Midi lab with 28 keyboard stations equipped, and finally…
- Music faculty offices
The LSC-PA Music Hall
In our restored music hall, students learn the real-world crafts of live sound and music performance. This 200+ seat venue boasts a new JBL sound system, all new stage lighting and a brand new 40 channel Allen & Heath live console. Also housed in the Music Hall is a full electronic repair facility where students are taught the skills needed for audio electronics. Sound, Lighting and performance are all done by students for live audiences during the semester. |
