Diploma in Applied Audio Recording at The Audio Recording Academy in Ottawa, Canada is a diploma in Media Production programme. The programme runs for 30 weeks, delivered on campus.
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Media Production
Duration: 30 weeks
Delivery: On Campus
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Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Applied Audio Recording is a diploma-track program offered by a career college in Ottawa, Ontario, focused on hands-on studio training rather than lecture-based instruction. The program runs 30 weeks and totals 600 hours, delivered across three in-house recording studios. Coursework is organized into modules covering studio orientation, signal flow, acoustics, and microphone technique, followed by recording sessions for drums, guitar, and bass. Students work through pre-production, mixing, mastering, and live sound, along with compression, EQ, reverb and delay, and MIDI and sequencing. The curriculum also introduces Foley, ADR, and sound design for film and gaming, plus a music industry seminar covering copyright, royalties, and financing. The program concludes with an independent study project in which students apply the techniques they have learned. Instruction is delivered by professional session musicians and industry guest speakers, supplemented by field trips, with students recording real bands in session-style settings. The program suits people preparing for work in live sound, radio, theatre, post-production, music publishing, television, concert production, composing, jingle production, or sound for gaming.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:The Audio Recording Academy (TARA) in Ottawa offers a single 30-week Applied Audio Recording diploma in small cohorts of 5-7 students; the next cohort is scheduled to begin September 8, 2026. Applicants, domestic or international, submit TARA's online application and the registrar follows up individually about further requirements and an interview — the school publishes no fixed application-closing date and no separate international deadline. Because each intake is capped by studio capacity, admission for the 2026 intake is effectively rolling until the cohort fills. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
