Emphasizes advanced digital recording techniques and independent problem solving in the recording process. Covers recording sessions, computer files, microphone usage and placement, digitizing principals, audio acquisition options, midi integration, and session management. Students work in an actual digital recording studio recording a wide variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
Students completing this course will be able to work in a professional studio environment. They will have the experience, knowledge, and skills necessary to create quality recordings and to manage a recording session under a variety of conditions using the latest digital recording software and hardware.
- Advanced microphone utilization
- Creative use of outboard processors
- The recording environment as a creative stimulus
- Identifying needs unique to uncommon musical instrument combinations
- Producing a session from start to finish
- Set up a digital recording session on the computer appropriate for a given situation.*
- Choose and set up recording equipment appropriate for a variety of musical ensembles.*
- Describe and demonstrate the sonic differences achieved by combining different hardware with various spatial placements specific to a given situation.*
- Create new recording tactics that address the needs of a specific recording situation.*
- Demonstrate mastery of digital recording hardware by using the various hardware components in the digital recording system to create recordings that satisfy the musicians’ needs.*
- Overcome the limits of the recording environment by using the various techniques and tools available in the modern digital recording studio.*
- Integrate mixed media, including MIDI instruments, recorded sounds, sampled sounds, live instruments, and virtual instruments, into a coherent recording environment.
- Transfer audio recordings from an analog medium into the digital realm.
Assessment and Requirements
- Quizzes and exams
- Written summaries
- Individual project
Students should have strong computer skills. A fundamental understanding of music theory is recommended.
Credit for Prior College-Level Learning
Determined by department