From the monthly archives: January 2012

Balance Assignment

By On January 30, 2012 · 1 Comment

Here is a real student recording session (including many quirks you’re likely to encounter in your recording projects). We’re going to use it for several weekly assignments to give you some mixing experience bit-by-bit before you have to do it all yourself.

The first assignment is balance, just using the faders. Here are some steps [...]

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All Log In/Out Links Should Work Now

By On January 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Presentations and Project Groups

By On January 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Mix Styles & Balance Quiz

By On January 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Focus on the basic mix styles Owsinski describes and on the arrangement elements.

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Microphone Theory Notes

By On January 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Aiming microphones

Consider the polar pattern: aim sensitive parts toward your source sound, and aim dead spots toward unwanted sounds Microphones with polar patterns other than omnidirectional usually exhibit the proximity effect: increased bass in very close sound sources.  This may or may not be desirable. Consider the inverse square law when choosing distances.  It is essential when dealing [...]

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This Blog is Moving Thursday–Friday

By On January 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The blog move is planned to start Thursday afternoon. Some time after that, perftest.tamu.edu/musc317 will stop working (so download now anything you’ll need during that time). Overnight, the blog should appear at perf.tamu.edu/musc317 .

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Highpass & Lowpass

By On January 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here is the next set of drills. Start studying now; we’ll drill on them in class next week.

Hipass_Lopass ALAC

Hipass_Lopass WAV

What it is

Highpass filters leave all frequencies alone (lets them pass) above a given cutoff frequency,

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Microphone Theory Quiz

By On January 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

In your reading for the next class, focus on:

The advantages and disadvantages of basic microphone types Recognizing basic polar patterns Prominent terms like phantom power, proximity effect, and the 3-to-1 principle

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Bandpass

By On January 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here is the first set of audio drills. We’ll start using them for quizzes in the second week of classes, so start soaking in them now! Download either the WAV or the ALAC format, unzip, and shuffle the tracks in your music player. Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) takes up less space but is primarily [...]

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Sound Basics Review

By On January 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

If you’re rusty, here is the sound basics worksheet from MUSC 316 to help you study for the basics test.

BasicsWorksheet

And here is the software to sue with it or for your own experiments:

SoundBasics.mxf

You’ll need to install the Max Runtime, available for free here (be sure to get the “Runtime” [...]

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