Music Technology III: Live Sound Reinforcement and Capture

Description

This course focuses on learning how to work with live musicians by capturing and reproducing their performances to best effect. Students will learn how to record and produce professional quality recordings of student, faculty, and visiting artist events at NWP. Considerations relating to preamps, microphone selection and placement, live stereo and surround sound techniques, live to two track vs multitrack, dealing with live venue acoustics, audio restoration, mixing and mastering. Students will also learn how to set up and run a sound system for live performances with considerations for microphones, DIs, stage monitoring, amplifiers and speakers, and using signal processing in a live situation. There will be readings and discussion around sound reinforcement theory, the various configurations used in music, multimedia, theatre and more advanced multichannel configurations at use today.