| Kshitij Studios Schedule of Courseware for Course A-For multimedia students | |||||
| Duration: | 12 practical classes | ||||
| 2 hours each | |||||
| Topics | Hardware | Software | Technology | Practical Exercises in recording studio | Home Exercises |
| Days | |||||
| Orientation | What are the hardware related to | Operating system worked on? | Understanding of sound technology ? | Orientation with the equipment in the studio | Observe the sound of Broadcast radio |
| the course ? | Application system worked on? | Exposure to software's :There functions. | and Broadcast TV | ||
| Hardware exposed to ? | |||||
| Exposure to home recording system? | Check The TV and Radio connections present on the home | ||||
| component systems like tv,dvd and amplifier systems | |||||
| Installation of softwares lik sound forge,sony vegas pro | |||||
| Be careful of what you listen to? | |||||
| Day 1 | Mixer, Sound Card | Sound Forge + Vegas intro | Digital soundcard basics and acoustics | Hands on exposure to analog mixer | Observe the sound from the radio programming, the reverbs and |
| Parts of a computer hardware | Single track vs Multitrack | Role of a mixer | delays used in the Music that you listen to, How to define the timbre | ||
| Types of Application software for sound | film dubbing | of a particular music, types of music | |||
| PC vs MAC technology | Recording your first vocals on a single track software | Practice sound forge | |||
| DA AD | and using it as a word processor. | Listen to radio and tvc sound design | |||
| Clock Sources | Levels and broadcast levels | ||||
| Cables analog and digital | |||||
| Day 2 | Sound mixer contd-Routing | Sound Forge-recording and editing | Latency | Sound Design project | Make your own swish and other sound effects through Sound Forge various |
| Plugins | Virtual sound studio | Starting with applying sound on an animated film | plugins | ||
| Deforming | VST instruments | TVC Sound Design through stock music | |||
| Multitrack and plugins | |||||
| Day 3 | Sound Mixer contd | Sound Forge contd | Softwares in Radio and TV | Learning through projects contd | Practice sound forge and vegas |
| Aux send and return | Networking audio | Studio will provide the requisite stock music and stock effects | |||
| Vegas Contd | |||||
| Day 4 | Lexicon MPX 100 | Sound Forge contd | MIDI basics | recording voice over | Practice sound forge and vegas |
| Reverb machine/Multi effects processor | |||||
| Vegas Contd | |||||
| Day 5 | Introduction to microphones | Various types of tracks on Multitrack Softwares | Microphones | recording voice over | Take project home and put further sound design to it |
| File formats acceptable on various softwares | Sound designing a radio spot | ||||
| File formats accepted with video editors while | |||||
| putting sound on film | |||||
| Vegas Contd | |||||
| Sound Forge contd | |||||
| Day 6 | Pre Amps | Sound Forge contd | Microphones | Synchronizing to film and dubbing | Using splitting software's for DVD like demuxing |
| Amplifiers, Speaker | Vegas Editing | Sound Effects | and putting your own sound effects and voice dubbing | ||
| Crossovers | Sound Library | ||||
| Day 7 | Graphic Equalizers | Sound Forge contd | Networking and audio networking | Sound Design and recording using hardware | Sound Design at home using microphones |
| Voice Master | Vegas Editing | transferring midi and audio via Ethernet | |||
| Crossovers | |||||
| Day 8 | Connecting Home studios | Sound Forge contd | Networking and audio networking | Mixing projects and finalizing | Practice today's session |
| Vegas Editing | transferring midi and audio via Ethernet | Headphone mixing | |||
| Royalty free vs licensed stuff | |||||
| Day 9 | Surround Sound Placement | Ableton Live Basics | using samples and music loops | making your own music loops | Practice today's session |
| Ableton live install and make some music!!! | |||||
| Day 10 | Surround Sound using | Ableton live contd | Synchronizing with Beta | Practice today's session | |
| Using together with Vegas | Dubbing on beta | ||||
| Day 11 | Ableton live contd | VST instruments | Ableton live practical | Practice today's session | |
| Reason introduction | Dolby and DTS | ||||
| Day 12 | Ableton live contd | VST instruments | Ableton live practical | Practice today's session | |
| Reason Introduction contd | Dolby and DTS | ||||
| Orientation: The Purpose of Orientation is to understand the student, his/her basic understanding of the subject in hand so that | |||||
| we can train them keeping in mind certain presumptions of basic knowledge possessed by the trainee. Demonstration for all the topics | |||||
| are covered on the orientation day, so the interest to know how develops in the trainee | |||||