Audio Engineering / Audio Engineer Professional

Helge Beckmann    

Helge is a passionate audio engineer and guitarist. He attended the University of Paderborn, the University of Music in Detmold - one of the leading institutions for professional music education in Europe - and the Tonmeisterinstitut (recording & balancing engineering institute) in Detmold.

He has a degree in Popular Music and Media. Helge developed and founded the first distance-learning school for home recording and, with Audiocation, he and his team now offer this innovative web-based form of audio training. Helge has also been working as a live/studio engineer for over 14 years and in recent years has worked with national and international artists and hosted events and musicals. For more than 5 years, he worked as the Head of Audio Engineering at the city theatre in Lippstadt.

He is co-developer of various software-VST-plug-ins and the groundbreaking Virtual Recording. In addition, he worked as editor-in-chief of the music and audio engineering magazine »Music & PC«.

Helge is the lecturer for the courses Audio Engineer Professional and Audio Engineer Basic

Basics, room acoustics, miking, mixing, production, auditory training and the realization of complete recording sessions – this course provides a comprehensive, practical insight into all of these aspects of modern sound engineering.

All recordings are specifically designed to cover the respective subject area and are realized in close cooperation with a wide range of professional musicians, sound engineers and music producers.

This gives Audiocation students the opportunity to make high-quality recordings and get valuable first-hand knowledge and information from experienced specialists who deal with the subject matter every day.

Special option: The Professional course also includes Virtual Recording – an option to hand in your own songs for mix analysis and to submit your own graduation project.