Madison Media Institute offers more than 31,000 square feet of classrooms, computer labs, and studio space in its facilities at 2702 Agriculture Drive on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin.
The Video and Motion Graphics program has several dedicated rooms featuring the latest equipment and software. There are six individual editing suites with Apple Final Cut Pro,® Avid Media Composer,® and Adobe Creative Suite.® The master control room features a Pinnacle PDS900 3ME switcher, a VT4 system, audio control, graphics, and teleprompter stations. We have field camera kits with lighting, audio, and high-definition digital video cameras. Madison Media Institute also has a video production studio with lighting control, cyclorama, teleprompters, green and blue screens, and in-studio monitoring. Other labs are equipped with Apple DVD Studio Pro,® Adobe Dreamweaver® and Flash,® Adobe Illustrator,® InDesign,® Photoshop,® cut and After Effects,® and 3D Studio Max.®
The Recording and Music Technology program combines the latest in digital recording technology with the same proven analog technology used by recording studios around the world. Madison Media Institute has a MIDI and synthesizer lab with 24 workstations running Apple Logic,® Reason,® and other cutting-edge software. Each workstation has an audio mixer and an Axiom 49 M-Audio keyboard. There are labs dedicated to the use of Digidesign’s Pro Tools® software and hardware, many with post-production equipment and surround-sound capabilities. Students have access to 8 full Pro Tools® HD TDM systems.
Three recording control rooms surround our expansive live room and isolation booths. Control Room A features a large-format 4040E/G+ console by Solid State Logic. Tracking is done to either Studer 827 24-track two-inch tape machine, IZ Technology Radar, a Pro Tools® HD system, or an Otari MTR100 24-track two-inch tape machine. Numerous industry standard outboard effects and microphone pre-amplifiers are featured in Control Room A. At the heart of MMI’s Studio B are a 40-input Trident 80C console and a 24-track IZ Radar hard-disk recorder. The Trident console and Radar recorder offer a unique combination of exceptional sound quality and simplicity of operation, which make them perfect for students as they start to learn the art of multi-track recording. Studio B is also fully equipped with the signal-processing equipment that is the stock-in-trade of the recording professional, featuring six DBX 160x compressors, two Urei 1176 compressors, two Empirical Labs Distressors, and a Teletronix LA-2A vacuum tube limiter. Engineers who desire a different sonic flavor can turn to our Focusrite Red 6 or Rupert Neve Portico 5012 Microphone preamps. Rounding out the list are multi-effect processor units from Eventide, Lexicon and TC electronic for those echoes, reverbs and special effects. The studios at MMI feature an array of top-notch monitors for Genelec® , Adam Audio®, Tannoy®, Yamaha®, Hafler®, Mackie®, and Event®, and Ikon®.
Madison Media Institute emphasizes small class sizes and personal attention to students. The maximum class size for lecture settings is 42 students. The maximum class size for a studio section is 16 students. The maximum class size for a computer lab is 26 students with no more than one student per computer workstation.
