Program:
Lesson 1. Introduction.
- Tasks of the course, methods of teaching
- Individual goals and material of the students
- The main tasks of recording studio
- Professions associated with the recording studio
- Allocation of finance in the recording industry
- Project and mastering studios
- The principle of recording and editing in multitrack
Lesson 2. Physics of Sound
- The sound of his nature
- The concept of function in physics and mathematics
- Methods of modeling sound wave
- Fundamental properties of the sound wave frequency, amplitude, speed, length, phase, harmonic envelope.
- The interference and diffraction
- The human ear
- Psychoacoustics and characteristics of human perception
Lesson 3. Acoustics of premises
- Resonance
- Early reflections
- Reverb
- Major problems acoustics: standing waves, comb filtering, SBIR-effect
- The concept of frequency response
- Tools to work with acoustics: the resistive absorption, membrane absorption, Helmholtz resonators, diffusion, reverb, non-standard methods (plugins, correction systems, etc.)
- Training in the workplace of a project studio. The speakers and microphone location.
- Making bass traps, diffusers and absorbers at home
Lesson 4. Digital audio
- The concept of a signal
- Analog signal, methods of transmission and storage
- Digitization of the signal: sampling, quantization, PCM
- The Shannon's theorem
- Digital-to-analog convertion
- Quantizing noise, jitter and ways to deal with them
- Typical connection diagrams for studio equipment with a computer
- Sound cards: the device,basic parameters, types, the criteria for model selection
Lesson 5. Digital audio (continued)
- Overflow and limiting
- The headroom
- How to encode and keep audio data. Analog and digital approach.
- Modes of transmission of audio data.
- System audio drivers
- Working with MIDI
- Software for sound: audio-editors, sequencers, plug-ins, virtual instruments, virtual studio systems (host-based software), trackers, additional tools
- Setting up software to get started in a home studio
- Optimization of operating system to work with sound
Lesson 6. Sound Recording
- The concept of recording
- Criteria for high-quality recording
- Linear recording, microphone recording. Differences (connectors, resistors, etc.)
- Types of microphones, structure, properties
- "Rent" useful frequencies for different instruments
- Microphone polarity
- Standard methods recording various sound sources, the microphone location
- Recording drums
- Recording Electric Guitar
- Recording Piano
- Recording Vocals
- Specific: impendance, feedback, proximity effect
- Commutation
- Volume scales of studio equipment
Lesson 7. Signal Processing
- The concept of compression
- Types of compressors
- Purpose of compressors
- General Settings compressor threshold, depth, attack, release
- Graphical interpretation of compressor
- Limiter
- Gate
- Expander
- The concept of filter frequency
- The principle of equalization
- Types of EQ
- Purpose of equalizers
- Different ways of using EQ
- The frequencies, which should be remembered
- Equalization of different sound sources
- Multiband compressors
- "Pitfalls" to compression and EQ
Lesson 8. Effects
- Time-based effects: delay, reverberation, chours
History, basic settings, methods and purpose
- Distortion (distortion)
- Phase transformation
- Vocoder
Lesson 9. Virtual instruments
- Synthesis of Sound
- The principle of syntheizer and main settings
- Sampling and samplers
- Slicing
- Determining the tempo in the sample, grid principles
- Drum machine
- The concept of sound design
- Installation of virtual instruments and using MIDI
- Virtual instruments
Lesson 10. Mix and Mixers
- Types of mixing consoles
- Digital Audio Workstation. Key elements and settings
- Routing the signal
- Monitoring the signal
- Groups
- A visual representation of sound sources in the mix
- Visual Interpretation of effects and treatments
- Other methods of mixing
- Criteria for qualitative mix
- Mastering: conditions and methods
- Preparing tracks for mastering
- The "pitfalls" of home mastering
Lesson 11. Working with vocals
- Working with the compressor on vocals
- EQ vocals
- Work with the rhythm, wrap
- Pitch Correction
- Features vocal sound for different genres of music
Lesson 12. Sound Recording
- Hardware installation
- Different types of microphone, preamplifier and other means of sound record
- Psychology basics of working with musicians
Lesson 13. Working with vocals
- Vocal batch editing specificity
- Vocal Processing
- Artistic techniques
Lesson 14. Editing, mixing and mastering tracks
- Various software options for editing sounds
- Practical tips to mix the track
- Sound effects and application processing
- Mastering audio
Lesson 15. The presentation of final projects. Questions and discussion.
Total duration: 30 hours
One hour price listed above.
