MUS 2540-3. Audio Production I

The first year of the Audio Production program includes the two courses, Audio Production I and Audio Production II as part of the required core curriculum. Audio Production I is the only course in the curriculum that is primarily book-and-lecture in orientation, and which does not have a required corresponding hands-on lab requirement. This is the basic survey course of the academic study of sound properties and the basic Audio Production techniques of analog and digital recording and sound design principles. It is the basic academic foundation for all of the other courses in the curriculum in which each topic of audio technology is explored at greater length, but with a corresponding sound studio lab requirement that the topic be incorporated into an actual audio project.

The emphasis in Audio Production I is to learn the basics. As the semester draws to a close, a single comprehensive recording project is created as a project of the entire class. This exposes the students to actual application of the sound design and recording techniques that they will be expected to implement individually and/or in groups of two or three throughout each of the courses that follow, required or elective, throughout the program. You will note, as you review the web pages pertaining to each of the subsequent courses, the hands-on projects become more numerous and more complex.

A partial list of topics covered in Audio Production I includes: