Hills Road Sixth Form College

Overview 'Hills Road Sixth Form College' is a public sector co-educational sixth form college in Cambridge, England, providing full-time A-level courses for approximately 5800 sixth form students from the surrounding area and a wide variety of courses to around 4,000 part-time students of all ages in the adult education programme, held as daytime and evening classes. The college was originally the 'Cambridge High School For Boys' and was attended by members of [a45467]: Syd Barrett, [a467424] and [a110862]. Their music department's recording studio has been used by many notable artists, including Fred Close, and Monté. Technology The music department includes two recording studios. 'Studio 1' features a basic control room with a preamp interface and an iMac computer, which borders onto a live room with basic microphone and sound technology. The studio is rumoured to be 'cursed' as hardware seems to fail often when used in there. 'Studio 2' is more technically advanced, featuring more instruments and hardware, including an Ivory compressor, a Roland XP30 (famously used by The Prodigy), and various high-tech microphones, including a modified Neuman condenser. The department also features many iMac computers, running music production software such as Logic Pro X and Sibelius.