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| JUNE 16TH, 17TH, 18TH SET FOR PERFORMANCE DEGREE AUDITIONS!! |
| Auditions for entry into the Commercial Music Performance degree program, Fall semester 2010, will take place June 16th, 17th, and 18th on campus at LSCPA. Major areas of study include guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards, and session vocals. All instrumentalists will be required to play along with tracks available for download on this site (Click "Audition on Premise" under "Audition and Interview Information" on the homepage of this site). Vocalists are asked to prepare two selections and bring either sheet music for accompaniment or tracks (CD). To schedule an audition, call 409-984-6520. |
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| GET CERTIFICATION IN LIVE SOUND! |
| Start your live sound education with the Live Sound certificate. Spring of 2010 will be the first semester that the new Live Sound/Sound Reinforcement Certificate is offered at Lamar State College Port Arthur, with the next certification class beginning in the Fall of 2010. We are so excited to be the second college in all of Texas to offer this certificate. Learn how to rig and run sound for concert tours, arenas, places of worship, theaters, theme parks, and much more. Learn to design, install, optimize, operate, and maintain sound reinforcement systems of all sizes in real world environments! Call 409.984.6520 for more information. |
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| LSC-PA Studio Facilities Offer Multiple Platforms |
| It is primary to our mission here at LSC-PA that our students graduate into the real world with hands-on knowledge of a wide variety of recording platforms. Studio A is oufitted with a Mac-based Pro Tools and Nuendo control. Studio B offers PC-based Pro Tools and Cubase 4. Studio C avails our students to 10 IMac workstations with Pro Tools LE. Finally, Analog has joined the family of LSC-PA Recording Studio platforms with the addition of a MCI-JH24 Analog 24 Track Tape Recorder, a MCI-Autolocator III, and a Peavy AMR 1600 Audio Console. Students now have the opportunity to learn how to record by tape, and digitally via Pro Tools (both Mac and PC), Nuendo, and Cubase 4. |
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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 1 system running Version 7.1 cs6 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 finer 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 having to rely on moving faders and knobs inside the program with a keyboard and mouse as a result of this control surface technology.
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 Digidesign, 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
Commercial 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 which features 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.
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Performing Arts Center on the west side of the campus. This facility includes a theater wing which features 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!)