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ALCHEMEA COLLEGE
The Winsdor Centre
Winsdor Street T: 020 7359 3986
London N1 8QG E: info@alchemea.com
One Day Music Tech Crash Course
Next available course dates:
Saturday 12 April 2008
Music Technology 1 Day Crash Course
Course Objectives:
The course is aimed at complete beginners (pre and post purchase of a music production setup) and those with a limited knowledge of music production already. It will provide an overview of how to setup up and use a simple music production environment, and explain the basics of the music production process from recording to producing a final CD master.
The course forms part 1 of Alchemea’s series of short music production modules. Parts 2 - 4 are intensive 2 day courses covering recording, mixing and mastering in greater depth.
Structure and Content:
Session 1: 10.00am - 11.45am "Introduction and Setup"
· Introduction to music technology and production: Course objectives. Stages of production and what you can achieve: composition, performing, recording, editing, programming, mixing, mastering.
· Tools of the trade: What will you need need? Microphone, audio interface, computer, midi interface, midi input device, external sound modules/keyboards, music production software, monitoring, environment. Configuring a simple setup.
· Optimising your computer for music: mac vs pc, desktop vs laptop, CPU and RAM, USB and Firewire, DSP cards (PCI and PCIe), drivers, hard drives, partitions, archiving.
· Music Production Software: What are the options? Protools, Logic, Cubase, Reason, Ableton Live, Garageband.
Session 2: 12.00pm - 1.45pm "Theory of sound and basic recording, editing"
· Theory of sound: Basic concepts. What is sound? How we hear. Frequency and amplitude. Stereo.
· Digital Audio Explained: Bit depth and sample rate. AD DA converters.
· Microphones: Introduction to microphone types and their applications, connections, preamps, DIs and gain structure.
· Simple recording techniques: Monitoring - headphones and latency. Click track, count off, punching in and out, takes, cycle recording.
· Editing your recording: Cutting, pasting, moving, compiling, crossfades.
Session 3: 2.30pm – 4.15pm "MIDI, signal flow and mixing techniques"
· MIDI: What is MIDI? Connections, external sound modules and keyboards. MIDI in the virtual environment, software synths and virtual instruments.
· Mixing desks and signal flow: Basic concepts: Channel, insert, send, panner, fader, aux/bus, output. Virtual mixing environments vs hardware mixing environments (analogue and digital). Control surfaces.
· Mixing techniques 1: Audio processors - dynamics and equalisation.
Session 4: 4.30pm – 6.00pm "Mixing (cont.), mastering and creating a master CD"
· Mixing Techniques 2: Effects, reverb, delay, modulation effects and sound enhancers.
· Bouncing down: Making a stereo master.
· Mastering: Why is it necessary? How can you do it?
· Burning an audio CD and making MP3s.
· Backing up your work
Course Length: One Day (8 hours)
Course Times: Saturday (10am to 6pm).
Course cost: £180
Saturday 12 April 2008
Music Technology 1 Day Crash Course
Course Objectives:
The course is aimed at complete beginners (pre and post purchase of a music production setup) and those with a limited knowledge of music production already. It will provide an overview of how to setup up and use a simple music production environment, and explain the basics of the music production process from recording to producing a final CD master.
The course forms part 1 of Alchemea’s series of short music production modules. Parts 2 - 4 are intensive 2 day courses covering recording, mixing and mastering in greater depth.
Structure and Content:
Session 1: 10.00am - 11.45am "Introduction and Setup"
· Introduction to music technology and production: Course objectives. Stages of production and what you can achieve: composition, performing, recording, editing, programming, mixing, mastering.
· Tools of the trade: What will you need need? Microphone, audio interface, computer, midi interface, midi input device, external sound modules/keyboards, music production software, monitoring, environment. Configuring a simple setup.
· Optimising your computer for music: mac vs pc, desktop vs laptop, CPU and RAM, USB and Firewire, DSP cards (PCI and PCIe), drivers, hard drives, partitions, archiving.
· Music Production Software: What are the options? Protools, Logic, Cubase, Reason, Ableton Live, Garageband.
Session 2: 12.00pm - 1.45pm "Theory of sound and basic recording, editing"
· Theory of sound: Basic concepts. What is sound? How we hear. Frequency and amplitude. Stereo.
· Digital Audio Explained: Bit depth and sample rate. AD DA converters.
· Microphones: Introduction to microphone types and their applications, connections, preamps, DIs and gain structure.
· Simple recording techniques: Monitoring - headphones and latency. Click track, count off, punching in and out, takes, cycle recording.
· Editing your recording: Cutting, pasting, moving, compiling, crossfades.
Session 3: 2.30pm – 4.15pm "MIDI, signal flow and mixing techniques"
· MIDI: What is MIDI? Connections, external sound modules and keyboards. MIDI in the virtual environment, software synths and virtual instruments.
· Mixing desks and signal flow: Basic concepts: Channel, insert, send, panner, fader, aux/bus, output. Virtual mixing environments vs hardware mixing environments (analogue and digital). Control surfaces.
· Mixing techniques 1: Audio processors - dynamics and equalisation.
Session 4: 4.30pm – 6.00pm "Mixing (cont.), mastering and creating a master CD"
· Mixing Techniques 2: Effects, reverb, delay, modulation effects and sound enhancers.
· Bouncing down: Making a stereo master.
· Mastering: Why is it necessary? How can you do it?
· Burning an audio CD and making MP3s.
· Backing up your work
Course Length: One Day (8 hours)
Course Times: Saturday (10am to 6pm).
Course cost: £180