Introduction Welcome to the culmination of our journey through music recording history. Your final project will challenge you to apply the analog techniques we’ve studied by creating a music production that is a testament to the rich, warm sound of outboard gear. Below you will find the roadmap to your project, focusing on the Toft ATB Mixer as your primary tool for both recording and mixdown. Project Aim Create a music production of at least three minutes, using the Toft ATB Mixer for all recording and mixing stages.

Create a ten slide presentation with the StoryMap tool. Pick a piece of technology that has developed over time and in different places as the topic for your StoryMap project. StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. It is a new tool, yet stable in our development environment, and it has a friendly authoring tool.

Objective: Capture a live musical performance using analog recording equipment to gain hands-on experience with mic placement, instrument selection, and utilizing the natural acoustics of a space. Instructions: Gather 2-3 musicians to perform live in the studio. Select instruments that complement each other tonally and have suitable volume levels for an unamplified acoustic recording. Record using the reel-to-reel tape recorder and Toft mixer. Use the preamps on the Toft mixer.

For this project, you will create a 2-3 minute musical composition using only samples from pre-1980 vinyl records. You can sample from the records I provide in class, or you can bring in your own selections of older vinyl records to sample from. The goal is to creatively repurpose and rearrange brief samples from these vintage recordings into an original composition. When recording your samples, you can choose snippets from well-known, popular recordings or you can dig deeper to find more obscure, forgotten gems to sample from.