Beginning Audio Engineering
BAE has four main course subjects:
Beginning Recording Techniques •
Beginning Projects and Seminars
BAE is a comprehensive course that is designed to teach you everything you would need to know to function as an audio engineer.
You will meet one-on-one with a different instructor three times each week to go over each one of these subjects.
Additionally you will do two assists a week for the first four weeks with other professional and student engineers in our state of the art facilities.
At week five you will start your own projects. You will do as many as six projects in the beginning class alone.
Each one of these projects will cover seeking the artists you would like to work with, booking them on the studio calendar, recording, editing, overdubbing, mixing, and mastering. Unlike other schools where projects are completed in groups, you will own your projects from bringing in the artist to mastering the final mix.
By the time you get out of the beginning class you will know how to and will have done the entire recording process as many as six times.
Subjects within the Beginning Audio Engineering course may not be taken individually. Upon completion of this course, students are awarded a certificate of completion and an audio reel of projects completed.
Beginning Recording Techniques
BRT introduces fundamentals of recording techniques and equipment used within a recording studio. Concepts such as defining what audio is, signal flow, patch bays, signal processors, microphones, consoles and other studio basics are taught.
Here is a breakdown some of the lessons:
Sound
Understanding the anatomy of sound
Microphone Design
Understanding how acoustic sound waves are converted into analog electrical signal
Session flow, Signal flow
Understanding how signal flows around the "console"
Patch Bay, More Signal Flow
Connecting and re-routing signal all across the studio
Amplifiers
Understanding how analog signal is manipulated
Equalization
Everything there is to know about the technical aspects of tonal shaping
Dynamics
Understanding the tools we use to manipulate the range between loud and quiet
Time Based Effects
Understanding the anatomy and the controls of reverb, delay, flanging, chorusing and others
Analog Tape, Noise Reduction
Understanding the science behind the tonal characteristics of an analog signal path
Synchronization, Automation
Learning how to synchronize automate every singer parameter in Pro Tools
Digital Technology
The specifics of the science around how digital recording and editing work
Midi and Studio Design
Understanding MIDI, and the science behind proper studio acoustics
