Arts West

In the fall of 2015, the university opened a new music facility featuring two recording studios, a large live sound studio, an immersive audio Dolby Atmos studio, and a new Music Technology Lab for the Music Production & Recording Arts program, additional faculty offices and teaching studios, and a classroom.

STUDIO A
 This recording studio features an API 1608 32-channel analog mixing console with dual-layer automation (analog mix and DAW control), with PMC TwoTwo6 nearfield monitors. Our primary DAW is Avid Pro Tools HDX. Studio A’s tracking room can comfortably track as many as 12-16 musicians simultaneously. It includes an isolation booth and eight 8-channel Hear Technologies Hearback personal monitor mixers.

STUDIO B
This recording studio features a Solid State Logic (SSL) Matrix 2 32-channel analog mixing console with dual-layer automation (analog and DAW control), with PMC Result6 nearfield monitors. Our primary DAWs are Avid Pro Tools HD Native and Logic Pro X. Studio B is used as a teaching and learning space for microphone technique, signal flow and gain structure and a place for students to practice the fundamentals of music production and audio engineering before moving to Studio A for higher level recording projects.

Studio B Teaching in Elon's Music Production & Recording Arts Program

Studio B Live Room in Elon's Music Production & Recording Arts Program

STUDIO C
This space is a multipurpose room, functioning as a large live room for recording from studio A or studio B control rooms, a rehearsal space for Elon’s Electric Ensemble and Techtronica, a teaching and lab space for the MPRA Live Sound Production & Recording class, and a meeting space for the bi-weekly MPRA departmental breakout sessions.

Studio C in Elon's Music Production & Recording Arts Program

STUDIO D
This studio is a our newest space, with Dolby Atmos immersive audio mixing, mastering, and music/audio post production equipment featuring an Avid S6 48-channel digital mixing console with Dolby Atmos 7.4.1 surround sound designed by world-reknowned studio designer John Storyk. The studio includes a classic modular analog synthesizer in the style of Robert Moog’s creations of the 1960’s-70’s.

Studio D in Elon's Music Production & Recording Arts Program

MUSIC TECHNOLOGY LAB
This teaching and lab space has 27″ iMac digital audio workstations running Pro Tools, Logic, Sibelius, and GarageBand. Each station includes full-sized 88-key MIDI controllers, and a two-channel digital audio interface. There is an iso booth for recording voice, guitar, and other acoustic instruments.

Center for the Arts

75,000-square-foot facility specifically designed for teaching and performance. The center includes McCrary Theatre, Yeager Recital Hall, music classrooms, music technology lab, recording studio, faculty offices, ensemble rehearsal room, and practice rooms.

McCRARY THEATRE
A fully equipped performance space with seating for 575, named for John A. and Iris McEwen McCrary. Performances by the Elon Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, Camera, Chorale, élan, Electric Ensemble, and other groups take place in this hall each semester.

 

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YEAGER RECITAL HALL
125-seat recital hall offers a more intimate setting. The hall is named for Frances Council Yeager.

Whitley Auditorium

Opened in 1924, named for Rev. Leonard Hume Whitley by his son-in-law, trustee Col. J.M. Darden. Whitley Auditorium serves as a venue for lectures, concerts, performances and weekly chapel services. Whitley also houses a Casavant pipe organ, added in 2001, named in honor of Alyse Smith Cooper by her brother J. Harold Smith, an Elon trustee.