Due Oct. 20th. Bring your CD to class! Studio B Project- Requirements – 1. Have at least 4 tracks. 2. Total length must exceed 60 seconds. 3. Loops and imported audio are permitted (use Import Audio from file menu) 4. At least one track must be audio that you recorded in Studio B. Finished product should be bounced to disk and burned on a CDR using Itunes (or any other thing). (A blank CDR can be found in my office, if you don’t have one). How to bounce to disk: Look under file menu. Choose FILE – then – BOUNCE TO DISK A dialog box appears. Verify that all your settings are as below: Bounce source = Analog 1 & 2 File type = *.wav Format = Stereo Interleaved Resolution = 16 Sample Rate = 44100 Convert during bounce = either during or after (This doesn’t matter) When your settings match those above, then click the BOUNCE button on the dialog box. Protools will then ask you to save your file. Name it something relevant. Since this is the only file you’ll save, I’d recommend you save it in a place you’ll easily find it. I save to the Root folder (the one above the Audio Files folder, which is the default). Sometimes the Desktop is the easiest place to find your bounce, assuming you’ll be cleaning it off immediately after your CD is burned. You will have to listen to Protools compact the audio and interleave it. If you used any inserts (EQ, REVERB, etc…) this is the point where it actually gets applied to the mixdown and everything is summed into one stereo file. When finished, close and save the protools file (actually, you may delete it, since you have your bounce for this grade). Start I-tunes, make a new playlist and burn your bounce onto a CDR.
Archive for the “class” CategoryFolks, there are a log of good people out there organizing information in ways designed to help you succeed. Before you take the next test, you owe it to yourself to check out this: http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=630 . Quite possibly the most insightful post you’ll read on aux busses and sends. Bravo Today we hand out the journals for presentations. Your presentation is ORAL and doesn’t get handed in after you speak. The rubric is as follows: I. Give a brief summary of salient points in chosen article. (50 pts) 2. Tell us your reaction to what was presented (i.e. critique). (50 pts) Presentation = Questions: Can you make high quality recordings at places where the air is “thin” ? Why does inhaling helium make someone talk like Donald Duck? Why can’t I hear the pitch of a dog whistle? A dead tree falls in the deep woods, but there is no one within a radius of 5 miles. Does it make a sound? Why does the track spectator see the flash from the referee’s starter pistol a second before he hears the shot? What it Hertz? What is the normal range of human hearing? Why does a piano sound different from a guitar? Why does Charles Dye use 3 sets of monitors? http://emusician.com/tutorials/emusic_monitoring_success/index.html
What is the difference between “peak” and “rms” level measurements?
Why might it be important to be careful when placing multiple microphones around the same sound source (i.e. a guitar)? Friday Test is drawn from following terms: Chapter 1 – Huber MIDI Acoustically “dead” Iso booths Dispersion Control room Recording console (board, desk) Spatial positioning DAWs Machine room Autolocator Effects devices Project studio Portable studio Live/on-location recording MTS/surround sound Transducer a/d converter
Huber, Chapter 2 You don’t need to memorize the formulas! Sound-pressure waves Compression Rarefaction Wave propagation Amplitude Frequency Velocity Wavelength Phase Harmonic content Envelope Sine wave Peak amplitude Root-mean-square Cycle Hertz Wavelength Reflection of sound Diffraction of sound Frequency response curve Phase Phase shift Partials Overtones Harmonics Complex waves Square waves Timbre Attack Decay Sustain Release Decibel SPL Voltage (V) Power/watts (W) Linear Nonlinear Curves of equal loudness Phon Beats
Web Extra Credit(only for those who read this far!!) = +1 letter grade on next test (if you need it). - Locate a recording facility that you would love to have an internship with. This means the facility specializes in a product/clientele that matches with your career goals. Find the equipment listing and print a copy. Then write (1 page) a capsule summary of the facility and tell why this place would be a good internship location for you. This is due August 22nd. Today we did the first lesson based on the F. Alton Everest listening skills book. We’ll do a few others every Friday until we get past hearing “distortion”…then you’re on your own. Today was the turn-in deadline for the OSHA page on hearing and sound pressure levels. We’ll talk about what other goodness exists in chapters 1-2 in Huber plus check out some of the new tracks in Paste Magazine with critical ears. Depending on what kind of mood I’m in, we might go ahead and get our article assignments for next week. Points on this assignment are assigned (a) if you do the report for our class and (b) if you bring back my magazine. It’s taken years to get that filing cabinet full of good stuff, so please don’t swipe my stuff and I won’t mind loaning you things in the future when you ask.
Everyone who gave me their name and student id# will have class tomorrow at 9AM in room 103. If you have not completed both the Advanced Music Tech and Survey classes, please see Mr. Smith ASAP. There are a lot of people in these classes, so please ask questions if we’re not on the same page! Remember to read Chapters I and II in the Huber text ASAP. Your test/assignment for Friday is to bring the OSHA sound pressure/exposure guidelines (in a chart form) printed out (with your name on it). You can also look up the wiki on Noise dosimeter if you can’t find an OSHA chart. The Masking and Beats tutorials are found on www.modrec.com. If you haven’t visited the digidesign website, go make yourself a user account! We will do our aural skills lesson on Friday and collect the OSHA charts. Hearing protection sites: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/noise/ http://www.hearnet.com/index.shtml http://www.eskimo.com/~carol/T/tmain.html
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