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The international online academy for audio engineering and music production
Do you want to learn the art of professional recording, mixing and mastering to produce songs at the highest level?
Are you interested in a promising future in the music business or even a bachelor’s degree in audio engineering & music production?
With HOFA’s officially approved and certified online courses, you can achieve everything – with fun and from home!

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▶︎HOFA Audio Engineering Online Courses
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HOFA AUDIO DIPLOMA
AUDIO DIPLOMA is the ultimate audio engineering online course. You’ll learn everything you need to know for outstanding music productions and your career in the audio industry.
If you want, you can then complete the bachelor’s degree in just one year.
HOFA AUDIO PRO
With the online course AUDIO PRO V3, you will efficiently and successfully learn how to record, mix, master and produce music at a professional level.
This course is part of the ultimate online training in audio engineering AUDIO DIPLOMA.
HOFA AUDIO BASIC
The entry-level online course AUDIO BASIC V3 is the perfect start into the world of audio engineering & music production.
This course is part of the ultimate online training in audio engineering AUDIO DIPLOMA.

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Everything can be done at home.
You can take any HOFA course at home – with constant access to all your lessons and practical exercises. And you can also do the assignments and exams at your computer and upload them.
Your online campus.
Learn with multimedia content in the HOFA Online Campus: tutorials, entire studio productions, theory lessons and instructive sound examples. You will also find livestreams and studio workshops on this learning platform.
Regular studio livestreams.
Every month, there are exclusive studio workshops that you can watch live. You will also have the chance to chat with the tutors and students. These workshops are permanently available to you as recordings.
Feedback from the pros on your projects.
In the courses, you will work on fascinating exercises and even entire mixes and receive individual analyses from the HOFA tutors. And if you want, we will give you detailed feedback on your own productions!
Answers to your questions.
Throughout the course, a team of professional audio engineers will be there to answer all your questions – by phone, chat & email.Feedback from course participants:

I even got offered a job and I’ve already recorded 7 songs for clients, two of which are on Spotify and iTunes!

I have learned a lot of new things, that are very important and necessary to know.
The HOFA PRO course showed me the right way of how to record and mix music. The support during the course was very helpful and they quickly replied to all my questions.

After doing this course I fell in love with all aspects of the audio world and now mixing, mastering has become a big part of my life.
I really recommend this college to anyone involved in music!


It has broadened up my point of view on the audio engineering world.
All the HOFA-College tutors are very kind and always ready to help. It is easy to communicate via phone, online chat or email. And this way, online learning is fun!

It was a perfect introduction to topics that for me still needed to be demystified.
The explanations, the tools, the tricks, the dos and don'ts, are so extensive that I can’t even imagine what I will learn with the PRO course!






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