SRT 122 - Basic Sound and Recording Techniques 2

Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: Multi-track studio production techniques are developed through class discussion, demonstration and project assignments. Theory of digital audio technology and its integration into music production is emphasized.

Prerequisites: SRT 121.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.

Course Category: Occupational
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring
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Course Competencies

Explain the fundamentals of hard-disk recording.
Explain the fundamentals of non-destructive editing.
Demonstrate the basic operation of a DAW (digital audio workstation) as it is used for recording, overdubbing, editing, and mixdown.
Operate different types of DAWs, including host-based (native) systems, DSP-accelerated systems, software-based systems, and hardware-based systems.
Demonstrate the use of multichannel audio interfaces.
Demonstrate intermediate real-time and file-based signal processing techniques in a DAW, including delay-based effects, and side-chain applications in dynamics processors.
Demonstrate the use of common digital interface formats (DIFs) in a multiple-component digital audio system.
Demonstrate common procedures for word clock distribution and sample synchronization in a multiple-component digital audio system.
Demonstrate mix automation techniques used in recording consoles and DAWs.