Audio II: Recording and Studio Techniques

Catalog description

Building upon skills acquired in MDIA 1400 Audio I: Introduction to Audio Production and Recording, this course helps students to develop technical independence in the essential aspects of audio recording and production. Students will develop professional skills, work habits, and attitudes through in-house and on-location recording projects. Students will realize recording projects, music production, and engineering for commercial use, for albums, and for video, through the use of stereo and multitrack analog and digital tape-based systems. The course also explores editing and mastering functions through the use of various computer-based (Windows and Macintosh) integrated systems. Industry skills, including studio construction and business plans, emerge on an individual basis as well as through a class project at a local, world-class audio recording facility.