Studio Techniques 1

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Transfer final mixes to Audio CD
• Communicate confidently with recording engineers as a producer
• Record in some traditional or modern styles
• Apply effects and mix multitrack recordings to stereo masters
• Communicate confidently with a producer as a performing artist, composer or conductor

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Work with performers and/or other producers as a team

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Obtain high quality recorded performance from a particular performer
• Choose appropriate techniques for a given style of music

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Sampling and synthesis
• Mixing techniques
• Dynamics and Equalisation effects processors
• Reverberation and ambience effects processors
• Monophonic and stereophonic microphone techniques

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.