The Art of Music Production
Berklee · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Stephen Webber
Arts and HumanitiesBusinessSocial Sciences
About the course
Explore the art of record production and how to make recordings that other people will love listening to. This course will teach you how to make emotionally moving recordings on almost any recording equipment, including your phone or laptop. The emphasis is on mastering tangible artistic concepts; the gear you use is up to you. You will learn to develop the most important tool in the recording studio: your ears. You will learn to enhance every aspect of your own productions, both sonically and m
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (21 votes, 1.0★).
“Very short course that is even shorter considering the fact that 90% of it is basically pure water. Even a beginer could hardly find any useful info here, but will probably be stopped by submition tasks which ask you to record you own music, which is kinda odd considering that this is the first recomended course in specialisation that does not require any background knowledge.”
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Reviews read on 23 Oct 2026.Read them on Coursera ↗