{"id":1008,"date":"2017-09-25T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T02:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2021-07-29T14:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T21:27:44","slug":"mus174a-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"MUS174A Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>mus 174a &#8211; audio studio techniques &#8211; winter 2021<\/h2>\n<h2>via zoom &#8211; tuesday, thursday 11:00 &#8211; 12:20<\/h2>\n<h2>instructor &#8211; tom erbe &#8211; tre@music.ucsd.edu<\/h2>\n<h2>ta &#8211; nicholas solem<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?page_id=1802\">class slides (winter 2021)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>weekly topics<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>week 0<\/strong>\u00a0introduction. introductions, overview of class<\/li>\n<li><strong>week 1 <\/strong>types of recording. studio components.<\/li>\n<li>analog &amp; digital &#8211; signals &#8211; cables &#8211; patchbays<\/li>\n<li>mixer, daw, control surface, outboard gear<\/li>\n<li><strong>demonstration<\/strong> of basic recording, click tracks, overdubbing.midi connections.<\/li>\n<li><strong>week 2\u00a0<\/strong>microphones types and construction, mic preamps, gain structure rules<\/li>\n<li><strong>demonstration<\/strong> of acoustic guitar recording with multiple microphones and positions<\/li>\n<li><strong>week 3 <\/strong>microphone patterns,<\/li>\n<li>stereo techniques,\u00a0instrument techniques,\u00a0positioning, 3 to 1 rule of separation<\/li>\n<li>takes and inserts, punch ins<\/li>\n<li><strong>demonstration<\/strong> of vocal or piano recording<\/li>\n<li><strong>week 4\u00a0<\/strong>types of recording: live, live in studio, live in studio with isolation, overdub, remote overdub. how each is done, what&#8217;s needed for each.<\/li>\n<li><strong>demonstration<\/strong> of vocal or piano recording<\/li>\n<li><strong>week 5\u00a0<\/strong>monitors types,\u00a0listening techniques<\/li>\n<li>session management, headphones,\u00a0fx for recording (compression\/eq)<\/li>\n<li>logs, studio setup plots<\/li>\n<li><strong>demonstration<\/strong> of drum kit recording<\/li>\n<li><strong>week 6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>basic protools<\/li>\n<li>editing, fades and cross fades, layered edits<\/li>\n<li><strong>demonstration of editing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>week 7\u00a0<\/strong>listening and critique of student project 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>week 8\u00a0<\/strong>simple mixing. mixing for editing\/clarity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>books<\/b><\/p>\n<p>required<\/p>\n<p>1) bruce and jenny bartlett &#8211; practical recording techniques<\/p>\n<p>optional<\/p>\n<p>2) tape op magazine www.tapeop.com<\/p>\n<p>3) bob katz &#8211; mastering audio<\/p>\n<p><b>class requirements<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>2 studio assignments &#8211; 50% (25)<\/li>\n<li>final &#8211; record a piece in the studio &#8211; present it in class 10th week (play it, talk about it, discuss) the piece should stand by itself, and be independent of other media (that is &#8211; no soundtracks for film or video. no sound effects for theatre or video game, etc.). &#8211; 40%<\/li>\n<li>attendance, class participation &#8211; 10%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>office hours<\/b><\/p>\n<p>tuesday, thursday 3:30pm &#8211; 5:00pm<\/p>\n<h2>assigments<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1038\">assignment 1 &#8211; introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1049\">assignment 2 &#8211; solo instrument recording<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1070\">assignment 3 &#8211; small ensemble recording<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mus 174a &#8211; audio studio techniques &#8211; winter 2021 via zoom &#8211; tuesday, thursday 11:00 &#8211; 12:20 instructor &#8211; tom erbe &#8211; tre@music.ucsd.edu ta &#8211; nicholas solem class slides (winter 2021) weekly topics week 0\u00a0introduction. introductions, overview of class week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1008\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tre.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}