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A Crash Course in the Fundamentals of Audio

September 22, 2010

The pages below are the courtesy of UC Santa Cruz. If these pages excite you, then you may want to consider attending UCSC and majoring in Digital Arts/New Media MFA, Film and Digital Media PhD, or Visual Studies PhD. Besides getting some excellent academic training, the Bay Area is one of the finest places in the world. USSC also has undergraduate degrees in digital media. If you are a resident of any of the western states, then you should definitely checkout Western Undergraduate Exchange where you can often times attend an out-of-state college for less than it would be to attend an instate college. For example, it is cheaper to attend many California colleges and universities under WUE than it is to pay instate Colorado tuition.

• Equipment
  • Microphones
  • Signal Processors Playing With Sounds
  • Analog Recorders Analog Tape Recorders
  • Digital Recorders
  • Mixers
  • Analog Synthesizers Using the Moog Synthesizer
  • Digital Synthesizers Digital Synthesis
  • Video SMPTE and Video In the Electronic Music Studio
  • Measuring Audio Introduction to the instruments used to measure audio
  • History of Computer Music
    
• Technical Background
  
  • Sound Propagation The basics of sound
  • Acoustics for Music
  • Hearing and the Ear Hearing and perception
  • Power Power calculations
  • Grounding
  • Ohm's Law
  • Decibels Definition of
  • Impedance Definition of
  • The Sound Spectra Taking the waveform apart
    
  • Dynamic Range The difference between the headroom and the noise floor is the dynamic window
  • Bits and Bytes
  • A Primer on Microphones
  • Basics of Analog Recording Analog Recording of Sound
  • Basics of Digital Recording Some great analog vs. digital wave pattern comparisons
  • Some Basic Electronics Visit our DIY Electronics for a more in-depth study
  • Sampled Sound Processing
  • The Mathematics of Electronic Music A nice introduction to the mathematics of electronic music
  • The Numbers (and Initials) of Acoustics
  • Music Notation with Computers
  • Simple Harmonic Motion
  • A Look at Un- Electronic Instruments A look at acoustic instruments
  • Acoustic Treatment of Home Studios
  • Acoustic Room Modes
  • Making Connections
  • Making Waves from Numbers Some graphs of sound
  • MIDI
  • How to Read a Schematic A good starting point
    
• Research
  • Fuzzy Logic and Music Tutorial

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