Advanced Audio Recording & Mixing III: Mixing & Mastering Capstone

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This course will address applications of modern Mixing and Mastering Techniques. Topics include signal processing such as EQ, compression, modulation, time-based effects, and limiting. Additional topics include parallel processing, effective gain staging, automation, and creative problem-solving. These topics will be reinforced by the introduction to the concepts of how to listen to mixes and masters, translation to different music systems and environments, expectations and professional loudness standards of the deliverables, mastering in the mix, mastering with AI, and mastering with a human engineer. The student will compile a capstone portfolio of productions that they have developed throughout MUS-207 , MUS-208 , and MUS-209 .