Audio 201L-Studio – Advanced Studio Production Lab
30 hours of hands-on computer audio production training.
(Prerequisite: Audio 101L and Audio 201 or this course can be taken concurrently with Audio 201)
This is a hands-on-equipment lab course. The student will attend at any time that is convenient for the 3-hour lesson.
Each student will be issued a mobile recording rig: a laptop, a MIDI/computer interface, a mic, etc. You can take this computer/recording rig home so that you will plenty of time to master each software application that is installed on the laptop. When you come in for your lab class each week, you will bring the gear with you to the recording studio. Each week you will learn a particular audio software application, including Pro tools, Cubase/Nuendo, Reason, Ableton LIVE, Steinberg WaveLab. You will then have a homework assignment on that application: you must complete a song, burn it to a CD and bring that CD to class on the following week.
For example, one week we will learn about a music making tool called “Reason”. For the assignment, we will give you a vocal track on a CD. We will tell you the proper tempo and the key for that vocal. It will be up to you to rip the vocal from the CD, create a music track with Reason, mix it down, and burn a new audio CD of your work that you will turn in at the following class.
This course includes the Waves Certification Course. Each student must purchase the Waves Certification software – $200. This is a package of five Waves effect plugs-ins (retail value = $1200) that the students will take with them when they complete the course. Each student must also have an ILOK key to authorize the software. For more info, go to www.waves.com – click on Waves Certification Program. Program topics include:
- Pro Tools
- Reason
- Ableton LIVE
- Steinberg WaveLab
- Antares Auto-Tune
- How to use MIDI with Virtual Instruments
- How to properly create an “MP3” file
- How to Master a mix
- Waves Certification Course – www.waves.com
