THEATER C454BSound Design for Musicals
Theater · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Exploration of sound design for theater and techniques for mixing, reinforcement, and signal processing. Topics include use of delay, equalization, and microphone placement for theater sound reinforcement with focus on mixing musicals. Covers paperwork needed to complete show. Tuning space, equalization, and some advanced projects involving programming and mixing on various consoles. May be repeated once for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C154B.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
THEATER C454B
- THEATER C454DScript Analysis for Sound Design
- THEATER C454FField Recording and Content Creation for Sound Designers
- THEATER C454GMusic Technology for Sound Design
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.