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Music Facilities

The Setnor School of Music is located in beautiful Crouse College on Syracuse University’s Main Campus. Built in 1889, Crouse College is the third oldest building on campus and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Crouse’s graceful spires and warm brownstone make it a landmark visible from many areas of the city of Syracuse. It is a building rich in history, with a working bell tower, stained glass windows and winding stairways.

The main performance space in Crouse is the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, which seats 650 and houses a 3,823-pipe Holtkamp Organ below a 70-foot-high open timber roof and stained glass windows. Approximately 200 events take place in the auditorium, including performances by school ensembles; recitals by students, faculty and guest artists; and special events. Most performances are streamed live.

A view of an empty, historic auditorium from the back. It is dimly lit and features a large organ on stage.

Setnor Auditorium

Crouse College also includes rehearsal spaces, classrooms, teaching studios, faculty and administrative offices, and practice rooms. The Setnor School of Music’s jazz and commercial music opportunities are housed in the jazz suite at Shaffer Art Building.

Setnor students may also take advantage of the opportunity to perform in other Syracuse University facilities. Some choirs rehearse and perform in Hendricks Chapel. Students have performed in the Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center as well as the Carrier Dome as part of a cappella groups, theater groups, marching band and pep band.

Belfer Studio

An individual works with sound recording equipment.

Recording facilities for the sound recording technology and audio arts programs are housed in the Belfer Audio Archive of Syracuse University Libraries. Belfer is the one of the largest sound archives in the country and includes formats from the earliest experimental recordings on tinfoil to modern digital media. The collection of 22,000 cylinder records is the largest held by any private institution in the world. One control room is furnished entirely with digital equipment by the Setnor School of Music.

The Belfer Laboratory has a Live End/Dead End recording studio and control rooms designed by Chips Davis, a nationally recognized acoustic expert and recording studio designer. The studio has been a cornerstone of industry academic offerings in Setnor for more than 25 years and is well known as an incubator for many future artists, audio engineers and businesspeople who continue to shape today’s music industry.

Equipment

Belfer Recording Studio boasts a large and comprehensive professional microphone collection with such brands as Neumann, Telefunken, Coles, Royer, AEA, Earthworks, Sony, Sennheiser, Cascade, Beyerdynamic, BLUE, AKG, Schoeps, Bruel & Kjaer, DPA, Electro-Voice, Shure, Audix, Audio Technica and Oktava.

  • Solid State Logic AWS-924 SuperAnalogue Mixing Console with SSL Delta and DAW Control
  • Pro Tools HDX-4 Ultimate, Ableton Live and Logic Pro X with 128 Channels of Analog I/O
  • Benchmark Media Systems ADC 16 High Resolution A/D Conversion – 48 Channels
  • Plugins by Waves, Solid State Logic, FabFilter, Valhalla, Sound Toys, Plug in Alliance, API, Oeksound, Native Instruments, iZotope, Cycling 74, Avid, Eventide and Celemony
  • PMC twotwo.8 5:2 Surround Sound Monitoring with twotwo.2 Subwoofers
  • Neve 1073 Microphone Preamplifiers/Equalizers (16 Channels)
  • Millennia Media HV-3R Remote-Controlled Microphone Preamplifiers (16 Channels)
  • API 512c Microphone Preamplifiers
  • Avalon VT-737SP Microphone Preamplifier
  • Millennia SST-1 Origin – Twin Topology Channel Strip
  • Manley Labs VOXBOX Combo Tube Channel Strip
  • Universal Audio LA-610 Channel Strip
  • Benchmark MPS-400 Microphone Preamplifier
  • Avalon U5 Mono Instrument and DI Preamplifiers
  • Pultec EQH-2 Tube Equalizers
  • Pultec MEQ-5 Tube Equalizers
  • Pultec HLF-3C Equalizers
  • Neve 2264A Compressor/Limiters
  • Teletronix LA-2A Compressor/Limiters
  • Universal Audio 1176LN Compressor/Limiters
  • Empirical Labs Distressors
  • TUBE-TECH CL1B – Single Channel Opto-Cell Tube Compressor
  • Manley Labs Stereo Variable MU Limiter Compressor
  • Manley Labs Massive Passive Stereo Tube EQ
  • Summit Audio DCL-200 – Compressor/Limiter
  • dbx 160A Compressor/Limiters
  • dbx 166 Compressor/Limiters
  • dbx 1066 Compressor/Limiters
  • Chandler Germanium Compressors (Matched Pair)
  • SPL Iron Mastering Compressor
  • TC Electronic System 6000 MK II x2
  • Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5042 2-Channel Tape Emulators
  • Lisson Grove AR-1 Tube Compressor
  • SSL Stereo Bus Compressor Module
  • Solid State Logic E-Series Dynamics Modules
  • Solid State Logic SSL E Series EQ Modules
  • API 560 Graphic EQ’s
  • API 550b EQ’s
  • Chandler Little Devil 500-Series Compressors
  • Rupert Neve Designs 551 Inductor EQ’s
  • Lindell Audio 7X-500 – FET Style Compressors
  • Radial Engineering JDX 500 Reactor Speaker Simulator Module
  • SPL TDx 500 Series Transient Designer Module
  • Rupert Neve Designs Portico 543 – Compressor/Limiters
  • Lexicon PCM-91 Reverb Processor
  • Fairchild 658 “Reverbatron” Spring Reverb System

Recording Services Studio

Recording Services operates within the Setnor School of Music to provide recording and other technical services to recitals and concerts in the acoustically vivid Setnor Auditorium. Under the supervision of a professional recording engineer, students provide audio engineering services for more than 200 events a year, serving as a valuable professional work experience in a mission-critical live production environment.

The Recording Services Studio is equipped with Pro Tools HDX 12, Steinberg Jones Wavelab and Telestream WireCast. Events are also live streamed in HD audio and video using a state-of-the-art, fiber-optic-coupled multiple camera system. Like Belfer Studio, Recording Services possesses a comprehensive microphone collection and a signal path that is customized to highlight the unique acoustics and capabilities of Setnor Auditorium.