Music production courses in Plymouth
4 schools teach production, DJing or sound engineering in Plymouth. Every listing is checked against the school's own pages, with the date shown.
dBs Institute Plymouth
private schoolPlymouth is genuinely dBs's founding campus, not Bristol or Manchester, confirmed via Companies House: Deep Blue Sound Limited was incorporated 6 July 1998 at this exact address. dBs's own history names founders Nige Burt and Dave Puttick, who began building the commercial Deep Blue Sound studio in 1998, opened it in 1999, and took the first cohort of 7 students in 2000; Bristol didn't open until 2013, Manchester until 2022. Degrees are validated by Falmouth University; the cheapest genuine route in is the Access to HE Diploma at £4,835/yr (routed through Access Creative College, which shares this building), well below the BA/BSc fee of £9,790/yr. An MA Innovation in Sound / MA Music Production is also offered at £10,500 full-time or £5,250/yr part-time, with an online option. The campus has 7 recording studios, 3 live rooms, a Dolby Atmos mixing suite and 7 DJ suites, with desks including an SSL Duality, API 1608 and Neve Genesys.
THE DEPØ STUDIOS
private schoolPlymouth studio with the city's only club-standard CDJ3000 DJ rehearsal rooms, offering DJ room hire, production tuition and engineer-assisted recording sessions. DJ room hire (Room 808 / Room 909) starts at £15/hour off-peak (noon–5pm), £20/hour peak, cheaper than the membership tiers. A membership/tuition plan starts at £40/month (higher tiers £70 and £100/month; exact inclusions per tier aren't detailed on site). One-off engineering services are also listed: track mastering £30, mixdown £40, mixdown and master £60. The studio sits directly above The Depo, a separately-run 750-capacity live/electronic venue at the same address that won BBC Radio 1's Grassroots Music Venue of the Year in a public vote (reported Feb 2026), beating established venues in Leeds, Glasgow and Bristol. Past partners include The King's Trust and Plymouth City Council. No named DJ or production tutor is published on-site: the site's listed 1-to-1 tutors teach guitar, bass and vocals, outside this listing's scope.
City College Plymouth
further educationFull-time Level 3 Diploma in Music Production (course code DIPMPRO31), Pearson-awarded, covering Logic Pro and Ableton Live, recording, mixing, mastering and sound design, taught alongside performing/production arts, drama, film, dance and games development students. Free for 16 to 18 year olds; adult (19+) students can use an Advanced Learner Loan for the £2,882 annual fee. Entry needs GCSE grades 4-9 in English and maths plus a production-experience interview; runs 3 days a week with progression to higher education or apprenticeships. Related Level 2 and Level 1 music performance/production courses are also offered at the same campus. Ofsted rated the college 'Good' overall (inspection 19 Nov 2024), with Behaviour & attitudes rated 'Outstanding' but provision for learners with high needs rated 'Requires Improvement'. The college's own site blocks automated fetches, so course-page detail beyond the Ofsted rating couldn't be freshly re-verified this pass: worth a manual re-check before treating minor details as current.
Access Creative College Plymouth
private schoolShares its building with dBs Institute Plymouth, a site dBs's own history places continuously since 1998. Teaches the RSL Level 3 Extended Diploma in music production (2 years), free for 16 to 18 year olds; 19+ students pay £2,882 for the first year (year 2 fee not published). Part of a national network founded in 1992 as Access to Music, rebranded in 2017, delivered in partnership with awarding body Rockschool/RSL. Entry requires 4 GCSEs grade 4-9 including English. Plymouth's local venue scene is anchored by The Depo, a 750-capacity venue that has hosted Pete Tong and Chase & Status, a short walk from campus.
Subjects taught in Plymouth: Music production, DJ, Sound engineering, Ableton, Logic. Know a school we've missed? See our methodology for how listings get added.