Course Objectives:
Students will learn how to “comp” lead vocals from several tracks, layer, blend and balance background vocals, edit them through numerous techniques and finally apply advanced modes like elastic time and pitch. Besides vocals, students will edit live drum tracks and apply techniques like sample accurate replacement, and quantizing audio. Once the editing part is done, student
s will learn how to import audio files and place them through spot mode, key-gate a synth part and combine several sessions into one master session through session data import. After all the editing and setting up, the students will learn the basics of mixing in the digital environment, current styles and techniques and how specific plug-ins work. Additional skills will be the to identify musical elements and nuances, manage milestones and roadblocks, balance levels and frequencies and how to create depth in a mix. While learning about proper monitoring techniques and setting up their studio rooms, the students will learn about listening in multiple environments, and what proper listening levels are. The final steps will be to explore the functions and learn basic setups of gain structure, distortion and harmonics, equalization, dynamic and time Based processing, panning and finally, dealing with phase issues. Applying all these techniques, the students will mix a session, pre-master the final mix and submit the required stems and mixes to a client.
