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Audio/Visual
Recording Engineer
Graduate of California Recording Institute 1993
California Recording Institute
AES Affiliation
Graduate of Academic Program
3 nights a week and once a month on Saturdays.
Program included 362 hours broken down as follows:
- First Semester - 170 Hours
60 Hours of Instructional Time
110 Hours of Recording / Mixing Session Work
- Second Semester - 192 Hours
61 Hours of Instructional Time
110 Hours of Recording / Mixing Session Work
- To insure personal attention the class is limited to 18 people. The class is
broken into 2 groups for Recording Sessions. All Mixing and Final Projects are
in groups of 2.
- Course Objectives
In the Certificate Program each student will:
- Acquire skills in the operation of professional equipment used in recording studios and comprehension of how the equipment is used to
create a variety of mixes.
- Develop the necessary organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills necessary to manage efficient and creative
recording sessions.
- Gain a perspective on different production techniques and an understanding of the traditional aesthetic used in music recording.
- Understand the fundamental physical properties of sound.
- Have an understanding of basic electronics theory and troubleshooting.
- Obtain the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to use computers
in music production.
- Learn the fundamentals of digital audio recording including the process
and skills required to operate digital audio workstations.
- Understand the basic use of time code in multitrack recording, MIDI,
and mixer automation applications.
- Engineer, with a partner, a final recording project of live musicians.
- Recieve a Certificate of completion approved by the State of California
Melanie completed the following:
FIRST
AP101 Art and Technology of Production 1
- Physics of Sound
- Signal Routing
- Microphones
- Effects and Processing
- Equipment Maintenance
- Structures of Mixes
AP101L Audio Production Labs 1
- Critical Listening
- Videos
- CD Roms
- 16 Track Mixing
AP110 Audio Production 1
- (5) 7 hour Recording Sessions with full band
- (5) 3 hour Mixing Sessions in groups of two
TOTAL FIRST SEMESTER 170
SECOND SEMESTER
AP150 Art and Technology of Production 2
- How to Produce a Product
- Alignment of Analog Multitracks
Drum Tuning
- MIDI, Sequencers, Timecode, & Automation
- ProTools Digital Audio Workstation
- Audio for Video
- Video Production
- Audio for Multimedia and Internet
- Live Sound Reinforcement
AP150L Audio Production Labs 2
- CD Roms
- 16 Track Mixing
- MIDI Sequencing
- Synching to SMPTE Timecode
- Automating Mixes
- ProTools Recording and Mixing
- CD Mastering
AP160 Audio Production 2
- (4) 7 hour Recording Sessions with full band
- (4) 3 hour Mixing Sessions in groups of two
- ProTools Recording Session
- Sequencer Session synched to Multitrack
- Final Project - 21 hours Rec/Mixing in groups of two
TOTAL SECOND SEMESTER 192
TOTAL COMPLETE PROGRAM 362
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