due on the date specified

December 4

Read: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr12/articles/lost-in-translation.htm
Listen to these files (Use good speakers or headphones!): http://www.tufts.edu/programs/mma/mrap/SOS-Compression-Apr12

November 29

Read in course pack: "Surround Variations"

November 20

Write: 3rd project reports
Read in course pack: Synchronization and timecode basics, SMPTE Time Code Tutorial

November 13

Lab: fix the tracks in the New Melodyne session.

Read in course pack: Tutorial: Technology of MIDI (four parts)

November 8

Read in course pack: Tutorial: History of MIDI

November 6

Third Recording Project proposal must be emailed to me by noon Monday, November 5
Project must involve at least four instruments, not including vocal, and must involve overdubbing. Due Thursday, November 15.

Lab: Mix "Dahmani Drums" and/or the "Blues Session" in ProTools, and bounce to 2 tracks. Be prepared to present c. 30 seconds of your mix in class.

Read in course pack: Celemony Melodyne DNA Editor (review from Sound On Sound)
Read in course pack: Plug-in Design: Modelling
Read: http://www.izotope.com/support/help/alloy/index.html, all pages under Introduction, Alloy Modules, and Meters.

November 1

Read Pro Tools Reference Guide chapter 46
Read online: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Phasing   http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Flanging

October 30

Midterm exam answers are due by 12:00 noon, Monday, October 29, in Prof. Lehrman's mailbox.
Be sure to bring your exam question sheet to class on Tuesday.

Writeups of second recording projects are due in Prof. Lehrman's mailbox by noon Tuesday.

Read Pro Tools Reference Guide chapters 43, 45
Read in course pack: Dynamic range compression

October 25

Read in course pack: Advanced reverberation, Use Reverb like a Pro 1
Read (Applications>Peak Docs) Peak 6 User Guide, pp. 117-top of 127; Burning Audio CDs.pdf tutorial

October 23

Read: Pro Tools Reference Guide, Chap 21 pp. 433-449, Chap 22 pp. 463 (loop recording)-468 (Recording from a Digital source), chaps 40, 44
Yamaha 01V96 manual -- http://www.tufts.edu/programs/mma/mrap/01V96V2E1.pdf -- Chapter 5
In course pack: Moulton: Beyond Spectral Management

October 18

Read: Thompson ch 3, ch 11 through p. 245 (Harmonic Distortion), ch 12, ch 13
In course pack: history of sound recording (Wikipedia), “Canned Music on Trial” (text is duplicated)

October 16

Read in course pack:
Audibility of a CD-Standard A/D/A Loop
Strawn p 38-end

Meet with your team and discuss second recording project: multimic 2-track session in Pro Tools. Start recording after Tuesday’s class. Due 10/25

October 11

Read: Thompson ch 14
Read in course pack Strawn: Digital Audio Concepts, through page 38 (dynamic range)
Type up project reports: due Tuesday at noon by email. Example report here

October 4

Quiz is due in Prof. Lehrman's mailbox by 12 noon!
Remember to bring in your quiz paper.

Read: Thompson, Chapter 4

October 2

Visit: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/audio/spk.html
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/audio/cross.html
Read on website: VRM Box User Guide pp 3-6
Read Thompson pp 27 (Ampllifer)-31 (Computer)

September 27

Read: ProTools Reference Guide chapter 22 through “Loop Recording” on p. 463; chapters 25 (skip MIDI parts on pp 517-521) and 26 (up to p 556)
Read:White Chapters 10-12, 14

Due Thursday, October 4:
First Recording Project: 2-mic/2-track to ProTools. (Due Thurs Oct 4) Assignment: Meet with your team to plan and make a two-track recording. Must have at least two instruments, or guitar and voice, or drumset, or solo piano. You can play it yourself, or ask others (better!) to play while you record. Bring in your proposal on Thursday. Edit on the lab computer and make a 3-minute (more or less) version to play in class (although the original piece may be longer).

September 25

Read: White chaps 9, 13
Read: on the computers in the lab, while looking at a Pro Tools session:
Applications>Digidesign>Documentation>ProTools>Pro Tools Reference Guide.pdf
chapters 2, 11, 12 (pp 179-middle of 184; pp 198- middle of 199), 13.

September 20

Read: Thompson chap 7 (non-engineers can skip pp 150-158)
In course pack: Coincident or Near-Coincident Mic Placement Techniques, Spaced mic techniques

NOTE: 3:00 pm class meets in Fisher
6:00 pm class meets in Room 155

September 18

Read: Thompson, pp 14-22,
Read: White, Chaps 5, 6, 8
Read in course pack: Why does Proximity Effect occur?
Read in course pack: Using DI Boxes

September 13

Read: Thompson pp 245-258, 315-329
Read: White chapters 1-4
Read in course pack: Room modes

September 11

Finish reading: Thompson, Chapter 5.
Read: Thompson, pp 207-217, 222-229.
Read: http://www.ethanwiner.com/believe.html
Read in course pack: "The Big Misconception"

September 6

NOTE: Attendance at the evening session on September 6 is requested of all students.

Read: Thompson "Understanding Audio" Chapter 5.
Study in the course pack: frequency and loudness charts
Read in the course pack: “MIT finds new hearing mechanism”
Read in the course pack: “iPod trend brings spike in noise-induced hearing loss.”
Read in the course pack: “How Hearing Works”