Week 1 (1/12)⌗

Monday (1/12)⌗

• Syllabus overview
• Semester Introduction
• Finding the textbooks in the DSU Library
• Some extra resources about Reaper

Assignment: Written Assignment 1 - Edison’s List

Wednesday (1/14)⌗

• Review Edison homework
• Hearing and Listening + Using Nearfield monitors

Reading: The Studio as Compositional Tool by Brian Eno. Submit a written response to D2L.

Friday (1/16)⌗

• Discuss Eno reading:
  • Recorded lecture on The Studio as a Compositional Tool
  • Questions
• Continue: - Hearing and Listening + Using Nearfield monitors
• Watch at home if we run out of time:
  • Setting up a Home Studio Environment

Week 2 (1/19)⌗

Monday (1/19)⌗

• No class (MLK Day)

Wednesday (1/21)⌗

• Supplemental Monitoring
• Low-end Mixing References
  • Notes on Bass References
• Listen to your favorite music and analyze its mix. These might become your reference mixes later.

Friday (1/23)⌗

• Pre-mixing Checklist
• Resources:
  • Presonus Monitor Station Reference
  • Mixing resources:
    • Sound on Sound
    • TapeOp
    • Pensado’s Place
• Lecture:
  • Short Video on SPAN
  • Mix Referencing - From Subjective Impressions to Objective Results

Homework: Create a list of six mix references (three styles of music). Listen on various speakers and write a paragraph for each explaining your choices.

Week 3 (1/26)⌗

Monday (1/26)⌗

• Listen to your mix references
• [Setup a mix in Reaper](../posts/week-2 /friday/setup-mix/)

Wednesday (1/28)⌗

• Setup a mix in Reaper
  • We didn’t get to this on Monday.
• Tempo mapping
  • finish tempo mapping
• After tempo mapping, finish adding regions and markers.

Friday (1/30)⌗

• Drum quantization with multi-tracks

Assignment: Editing 1 - Drums - Due Wednesday

Week 4 (2/2)⌗

Monday (2/2)⌗

• Tuning and vocal aligning
  • ReaTune - manual and automatic adjustments
  • Vocal Alignment
• We’re starting our class song on Wednesday, so bring in any ideas (and instruments) you have for the composition.

Assignment: Complete the vocal tuning and aligning project for Better Way and submit to D2L by Monday.

Wednesday (2/4)⌗

• Finish Tuning and vocal aligning - aligning backup vocals
• Recording the class song
  • What kind of composition do we want to create?
  • Create backing tracks for playing to?
  • Drums, bass, other instruments?

Friday (2/6)⌗

• more recording the class song

Week 5 (2/9)⌗

Monday (2/9)⌗

• More recording the class song

Wednesday (2/11)⌗

• out of town - no class

Friday (2/13)⌗

• Takes and comping
• Punching in

Assignment: Mixing Assignment 1: Choose a medium-difficulty project, create a mixdown with proper balance, adjust timing and tuning. DUE February 23rd at 1:00 pm.

Week 6 (2/16)⌗

Monday (2/16)⌗

• No class - President’s Day

Wednesday (2/18)⌗

• Building raw balance
• More recording for class song?

Friday (2/20)⌗

• Finish up final recordings for the class song
• What projects are you all working on for the mixing assignment?
  • Look through some options and talk about what you’re thinking about doing.
  • Look at some challenges with particular projects.

Week 7 (2/23)⌗

Monday (2/23)⌗

• Listen to some of your mixes and critique them.

Wednesday (2/25)⌗

• Compressing for a reason
  • Pick some tracks in the mix and experiment with compression settings.
• Some listening: Chapter 9: Compressing For A Reason

Friday (2/27)⌗

• Compression Lab
  • Turn in the results by Monday.
• Look at some freeware limiters
• Looking at a few freeware compressors

Week 8 (3/2)⌗

Monday (3/2)⌗

• Buss compression - “Glue Compressor”
  • Buss Compression
• Beyond compression:
  • transient & tempo plugins
  • And other plugins: Chapter 10: Beyond Compression

Wednesday (3/4)⌗

• Two options:
  • Final recording on class song
  • Work on a mix as a class using techniques we’ve learned so far.

Friday (3/6)⌗

• Using EQ
• Extra resources:
  • Listening to EQ examples
  • EQ Slides

Assignment: Editing 2 - Equalization - start in class, due 3/11 at 2 pm

Week 9 (3/9)⌗

Monday (3/9)⌗

• Beyond equalization

Wednesday (3/11)⌗

• Finish Beyond equalization
• EQ Lab due by 2 pm today.

Friday (3/13)⌗

• Class canceled

Week 10 (3/16)⌗

• Spring Break - No Classes

Week 11 (3/23)⌗

Monday (3/23)⌗

• Finish Beyond equalization

Introduce Teaching a Lesson project (proposals due April 3rd).

See “Class Song” guidelines (Due March 30th).

Wednesday (3/25)⌗

• Mixing with reverb

Friday (3/27)⌗

• Keep thinking of your lesson plan and proposal (Due April 3rd)
• Mixing with reverb

Week 12 (3/30)⌗

Monday (3/30)⌗

• More reverb
• talk about what you’re thinking of doing for your lesson.