Nimbus School of Recording Arts
Nimbus School of Recording Arts is a private institute headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, providing education in audio engineering, music production, and the music business. The school was founded in 2009 by Bob Ezrin, Garth Richardson, and Kevin Williams. Nimbus is accredited nationally by the Private Career Training Institutions Agency, regionally by the British Columbia Education Quality Assurance, and is academically certified with the media hardware/Software company AVID, maker of the popular audio recording software Pro Tools
Programs
Nimbus offers 3 program paths:
- (AMP) Advanced Music Production - a one year diploma program focused on audio engineering, recording, and production processes. Class topics include cables, patch bays, decibels, wave theory, equalization, miking techniques for drums, bass, electric guitars, vocals, keyboards, re-miking and re-amping, metering and recording levels, autotune, dynamic processing, effects processing, sound replacement, music theory, MIDI theory, digital theory, comping and editing, mixing and mastering.
- (BUMP) Beats and Urban Music Production - a one year diploma program focused on the production techniques used for Hip Hop and Urban Music production. Class topics begin covering much of the same content as The AMP program, before breaking away to cover genre specific topics such as the origins and culture of Hip Hop, sampling concepts, business strategy, production, DAW, samplers, turntables, soft synths, plugins, studio recording techniques, pre-production, mixing, mastering, and growing a sound bank.
- (MP) Music Business - a one year diploma program focused on the business side of the music industry. Class topics begin covering much of the same content as the AMP program, before breaking away to cover business specific topics such as marketing and promotion, music law, business plans, social media, revenue streams, songwriting, performance, artist demos, branding, media, and self promotion.