Students are provided with practical experiences on commercial projects in area recording studios. A study of equalization, reverberation, tape recorders, compressors, recording consoles, tape editing, disc manufacturing, and routine studio maintenance. The student heightens his aural skills through applying critical listening techniques to prerecorded music. Students will work on both studio and field recording projects. The student is introduced to computer software basic operations, computer based sequencing, MIDI, time code synchronization, and digital hard disk recording.
Emphasis is on the impact of computers in music and in the modern recording studio.
A continuation of Techniques of Audio Recording III incorporating additional computer techniques. Topics include digital editing, automation, mixing, and mastering. Students are required to plan and produce a master tape recording consisting of four to six commercial length songs. All Contents Copyright 2000 by Finger Lakes Community College.