All of the skills that I learned on the HND sound production course came in extremely useful for me as each aspect of the course related to something I was working on with our own work. This spanned from the recording process, time domain effects, the correct microphones to use for the specific job in hand, the correct processes with EQ all the way through to the mixing and mastering of the final project. The areas that were the most beneficial to me in the course were the skills for business outcomes. These sections taught me things like copyright, contract laws, royalty collection societies, the Musicians Union and sample clearance – for when we use samples of other songs for a remix. If I hadn’t studied at Riverside I wouldn’t have known about a lot of different aspects, especially the legal side, of the music industry. The mixing and mastering sections helped me a lot when it came to releasing our album to industry standard.