• The History of Audio Sweetening
• The Sweetening Process
• SMPTE Time Code
• MIDI Time Code
• Synchronizers
• Digital Recording
• Hard Disk Recording and Editing
• Production Audio
• System Configurations and Operation
• Digital Workstations
• Synchronization of Digital Systems
• Recording Narration and Dialog Replacement
• Foley
• Future Directions and Developments in Audio Sweetening

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.