Semester Overview:            

 

Week 1: Jan 13, 2011

Lecture: Course Objectives and Syllabus Review, Discuss the basics of digital audio sampling theory: Nyquist, aliasing, bit depth and binary numbers. 

 

Week 2: Jan 20 2011

Lecture: Basic studio equipment: computer, interface, storage, etc., How to format a drive for digital audio,

Data and Audio CDs

 

Lab: Navigation

 

Assignment: Practice for navigation Quiz

 

Week 3: Jan 27 2011

Lecture: Survey of DAWs on the market & how they fit into audio workflow.

           

Assessment: Timed Navigation Quiz

 

Lab: Advanced Navigation

 

Assignment: Practice for navigation Quiz

 

Week 4: Feb 3 2011

Lecture: Analog vs. Digital, Basic digital audio principles, Binary Number Systems, Volts Vs. Bits, Bit, bytes, nibble, Hexadecimal Numbers. Review, A/D/A Conversion part

 

Lab: Edit is Shuffle – ABCD edit to be read as fast as it can be. Edit in Slip and Shuffle – Wonder box 3000

 

Assessment: Timed Navigation Quiz II

 

            Assignment: ABCD and Wonder Box on audio CDs

 

Week 5: Feb 10, 2011

Lecture: Sampling, filtering, aliasing, quantization, quantization noise, Sound quality issues related to digital audio parameters and settings, Dither, re-dither and noise shaping

 

Lab: Edit in Grid – “Arrange in Grid”

 

Assessment: Collect Editing CD with 2 tracks.

 

Assignment: Complete Arrange in Grid and create Audio CD.           

 

Week 6: Feb 17, 2011

Lecture: Uncompressed file formats, Word Clock, Time-code, Digital Mixers

 

Lab: Recording Basic:  Read / Record article and edit to be as clear as you can. Fix all plosives and poorly pronounced words.

 

Assessment: Collect Audio CD of “Arrange in Grid”

 

Assignment: Complete recording project.

 

Week 7: Feb 24, 2011

            Mid Term Exam: A timed assessment of navigation and editing tasks.

 

Week 8: Mar 3, 2011

Lecture: HHD specifications (access time, transfer rate, storage capacity RAID), SCSI, USB, IEEE, SATA, Backup techniques

 

Lab: Automation Basics: Volume, Pan, Mute, Plug-In

 

Assignment: 1. Use Automation to level volume in article recording. 2. Use Automation to remix grid project. Create a data backup CD of both projects

 

Week 9: Mar 10, 2011

            Lecture:  Lossless vs. Lossy compression

 

Lab: Midi: Create a basic beat in Reason using Redrum. ReWire: Sync the beat to Pro Tools “arrange in grid” song.

 

Assessment: Collect Automation Data CD.

 

Assignment: Complete Midi and Rewire projects data CD

 

Week 10: Mar 17, 2011

            Lab: Tempo Map: Tempo Map a simple dance or rap song and sync to reason

 

            Assessment: Collect Midi and Rewire Data CD

 

            Assignment: Tempo map 5 songs from your personal collection.

 

Week 11 Mar 24, 2011

Lab: Remix: Remix a song, Samples and Reason

 

Assessment: Collect DATA of tempo mapped songs

 

Assignment: complete remix

 

Week 12: Mar 31, 2011

Lecture:  Mixing with Audio Suite verse Real Time Audio Suite (RTAS).

-Cut and paste setting to audio suite and process on a new playlist. 

Lab: Work on Final Mix Project

 

Assignment: Continue Mix Project.

-Tempo map, Add Reason, RTAS and AS, Master Fader, Song Section Markers.

 

Week 13: April 7, 2011

            Lab: Plug-in Automation in final project Mix.

-Time based Efx. on Aux. Dynamic Efx on inserts.

Assignment: Continue Mix Project

 

Week 14: April 14, 2011           

            Lab: Side Chain for De-Ess and 808

 

            Assessment: Collect Final Mix Project on CD