Audio Production III (MUS 4550-4) and IV (MUS 4579-4)

Audio Production III and IV are core courses of the second year of the Audio Production and sound Audio Productionnology program. At this point, the students are transforming what they learned in Audio Production III and IV and expanding that knowledge into daily applications that they will face in industry. The projects which must be completed over the course of a semester are considerably more complex than those that were required in Audio Production II, and the course material expands accordingly from that which was covered in Audio Production III and IV to provide the academic basis for the required projects. Some of the material is entirely new.

Such topics include:

This material, however, is worked into a much more extensive exploration and application of the areas carried forward from Audio Production II. Another aspect of both Audio Production III and IV is the approach to specialization. All of the topics and applications now being used by the students are susceptible of much more in-depth study than could be accomplished, as a class, in every area. What is to be done? The topics are divided up into research projects among the members of the class. While everyone is performing hard-disk recording to some extent, one member of the class will study that topic and write a paper on it. The paper and the class member then both become a resource for the entire class. Both will be used, as needed, by the entire class as the projects are created and completed. So too with practically every other topic that is part of the Audio Production curriculum. However, at this point, the research is focused upon areas in which hands-on performance is now required. These papers generally are not done on purely academic topics.

Audio Production III is presented in the fall, and Audio Production IV in the spring. While they are two separate courses, they are organized so that Audio Production III is very much a continuation of Audio Production IV.

Many Audio Production projects are presented on the CAM Records label, a production label that produces several compilation CDs each year for the College of Arts and Media.

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