1. Audio Technology
Part 3

2. The recording process Precautions with analog and digital recording
Peaks
Clipping
Noise

3. Multi-track recording
Session preparation
Session procedures
Headphone mix
Microphone and Direct recording
Stereo miking
Recording Direct inject
Guide to tracking Instruments and voice

4. Stereo Mixdown and Mastering
Mixdown techniques
Creative panning
Fading
Destructive and Non-destructive editing
Tape scrubbing

5. Effects and Processing
Wet and Dry signal
Echo
Delay–based effects
Reverberation
Compressor/Limiter/Noise Gate

6. Anatomy of a mixdown Pre-mix procedures Mixdown formats
Mixer preparation
Monitors and mixdown
Monitor placement
Volume
Deception of Sound
Mixdown Session
Mixing instruments and voice
Mastering

7. Project 1 and assignment
Assignment : Record a CD track onto audio tape or Minidisk
Project: Using the knowledge acquired in the past few lectures, you are required to do two complete recordings:
a work of not longer than 5 minutes using the equipment in the Musaion – Roland VS 1680 or your personal equipment.
Record using the Apple Mac and DP 4 software in GW Multimedia lab.