MUS-191: Audio Recording Technology 1

Provides hands-on experience and guided practice in digital audio engineering, digital audio mixing, and basic digital audio mastering. Explores how to engineer recording sessions by working in an actual recording studio with live musicians. Covers basic techniques in microphone usage and placement, digitizing principals, audio acquisition options, midi integration and session management. Explains how to prepare complex digital audio files for duplication and audio for mixing. Also covers basic techniques in mixing room acoustics, software plug-ins, how to troubleshoot various audio problems, equalization, stereo imagery, noise limitation, and bit conversion. Applies core skills, workflows, and concepts of recording, editing and mixing on an Avid Pro Tools system learned in MUS-192: Pro Tools 101.