Intro to Digital Audio Recording is intended to help participants develop an understanding of digital recording concepts and the music technology tools that will allow them to accomplish their songwriting, recording and musical goals. This course begins with a thorough overview of the free audio editing software Audacity, a sound editing program that can be used to record, edit, process and master sound files, and will prepare students for more complex digital audio workstations such as Garageband, Pro Tools, Logic and Sonar. (Available at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/).
In addition to basic information on the fundamentals of sound, microphones and signal flow, this course will cover the following topics:
- Setting up your studio
- Interfaces and multi-track recording
- Sample rate and sample resolution
- Recording audio
- Manipulating and editing audio
- Applying effects, EQ and dynamic processing
- Basic mixing
- Importing and rendering audio
- Creating a CD
- Audio formats
