| Kshitij Studios Schedule of Courseware for Course B-Advanced Sound Engineering | |||||
| Duration: | 24 practical classes | ||||
| 2 hours each | |||||
| Topics | Hardware | Software | Technology | Practical Exercises in recording studio | Home Exercises |
| Days | |||||
| Orientation | What are the hardware related to | What are the Software's related to | What are the Technology related to | Orientation with the equipment in the studio | Observe the sound of Broadcast radio |
| the course ? | the course ? | the course ? | and Broadcast TV | ||
| Check The TV and Radio connections present on the home | |||||
| component systems like tv,dvd and amplifier systems | |||||
| Day 1 | Computer Hardware | Operating Software and Application software | Acoustics and Sound Proofing | Acoustics practicals,use of software to create | Observe the sound from the radio programming, the reverbs and |
| Parts of a computer hardware | Operating System to audioware installations | various acoustics Foley sound, technology used in | delays used in the Music that you listen to, How to define the timbre | ||
| Speeds of computer | 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 | ||||
| and using it as a word processor. | |||||
| Change the timbre of the voice through hardware and software | |||||
| Day 2 | Audio Hardware | Sound Forge-recording and editing | Acoustics contd. | Recording on Sound Forge and wavelab,editing | Practice Sound Forge recording,Looping and editing, come with questions |
| Mixer | Wavelab-Recording and editing | Single Track vs. Multitrack | Pitch Shifting,Envelope,Plugins | ||
| Microphones | Frequency Analysis | DirectX,VST,Host plugins and 3rd party plugins | |||
| Compressors | Digital recording Basics | ||||
| Limiters | Latency Issues | ||||
| Sound Cards | Processing Power | ||||
| Day 3 | Pre Amps | Multitrack software's | Old technology analog Recording | Recording multitrack on Vegas and Cubase SX | Practice editing on Vegas and cubase sx |
| Reverb Machine | Time based vs. tempo based | Multitrack tapes-24 and 32 track machines | Study various microphones | ||
| Delay Machine | (Small preview of Vegas vs. cubase sx vs. | Old way to record vocals using reverbs and | Observe Microphones used in Film Making and on TV Shows | ||
| Microphones and Types of Microphone | Ableton Live vs. reason) | tape delays | Control of Noise and reduction | ||
| Vegas Contd | |||||
| Day 4 | Routing your analog connections | Multitrack software's in combination with | Use of multitrack technology in films | Recording multitrack and editing on Vegas and Cubase SX | Practice editing on Vegas and cubase sx |
| Connectors and convertors | single track softwares | and for surround sound | |||
| Cables and Types of cables | Vegas Contd | ||||
| Day 5 | Routing digital Connections | Various types of tracks on Multitrack Softwares | Use of Connections in network setups in news | Recording multitrack and editing on Vegas and Cubase SX | Practice editing on Vegas and cubase sx |
| ADAT,SPDIF | File formats acceptable on various softwares | rooms and multiple studios | Use different types of File Formats in Cubase SX | ||
| Word Clock,AES/EBU Connections | File formats accepted with video editors while | ||||
| Tascam Connections | putting sound on film | ||||
| Vegas Contd | |||||
| Day 6 | Routing Digital Connections contd..for | Cubase SX | Recording instruments on cubase | Practice editing on Vegas and cubase sx | |
| transfers,use of data processing | Vegas Editing | Sound Effects | Import Midi Files in Cubase SX ,open pre recorded MIDI projects | ||
| Sound Library | Download your favaurite MIDI songs | ||||
| Day 7 | Speakers:Active vs. Passive | Cubase SX | Recording instruments on cubase | Cubase SX :Audio and MIDI | |
| PA vs. Studio VS Home Speakers | Vegas Editing | Sound Effects | Vegas Editing | ||
| Crossovers | Sound Library | ||||
| Vegas Editing | |||||
| Day 8 | DAT | Cubase SX | Recording instruments on cubase | Practice today's session | |
| Vegas Sound Design | Sound Effects | ||||
| Using sound Effects and stock music | Sound Library | ||||
| Royalty free vs. licenced stuff | |||||
| Day 9 | Connecting to Various other Outputs | Cubase SX audio recording and Editing | Recording instruments on cubase | Practice today's session | |
| pitch shift,Time Compress | |||||
| Day 10 | Cubase SX audio recording and Editing | Recording instruments on cubase | Practice today's session | ||
| Using Plugins | |||||
| Day 11 | Patchbay | Cubase SX audio recording and Editing | Recording instruments on cubase | Practice today's session | |
| Working with various windows-Mixer | |||||
| Day 12 | Patchbay connections practical | MIDI -use of MIDI,Softwares for MIDI | |||
| Routing for MIDI | Cubase SX and MIDI | MIDI in practical world,over the Internet | Recording MIDI through varios sources | Practice today's session | |
| Syncing Roland XP 10 with Cubase SX | Songs on Yamaha Keyboard-PSR series | Understading MIDI and the way it talks to different pieces of | |||
| Arpeggiators and Kind of Arpegiators | Types of MIDI Specifications:Yamaha vs. roland | Equipment in studios and while performing live | |||
| General MIDI,Drum Maps | |||||
| Other Formats like MODS,Proprietory MIDI like | |||||
| technology | |||||
| Day 13 | Lexicon MPX 100 | MIDI and Audio Syncronisation | MIDI and Audio in production of Songs and | Cubase SX :Audio and MIDI | Practice today's session |
| USB Port | Tempo Charts,MIDI file conversion to Audio | for sound designing,Controlling various | |||
| Firewire Port | Cubase SX :Audio and MIDI | equipments whether far or near | |||
| Ableton Live Introduction | |||||
| Day 14 | Focusrite Voice Master | VST Instruments and MIDI | VST Technlogy | Ableton Live | Practice today's session |
| Firewire Video Card/Video display | Recording with Voicemaster | Sampling | Cubase SX | ||
| Ableton Live | Loops and Samples edit | ||||
| Basics of OSX | |||||
| Day 15 | Behringer Equaliser | VST Instruments | VST Technlogy | Ableton Live | Practice today's session |
| Recording with Equaliser | Sampling | Cubase SX | |||
| Ableton Live | |||||
| Connecting Abelton Live and Cubase SX | |||||
| Day 16 | TB 202 Compressor | Recording with Compressor TB 202 | Pro tools | Practice today's session | |
| Protools Begin | |||||
| Day 17 | FATman Compressor | Recording and Mixing with Fatman Compressor | Pro tools | Practice today's session | |
| Protools recording | |||||
| Day 18 | POD XT and it's connections | ||||
| Protools recording Drums | Pro tools recording Multitrack | Practice today's session | |||
| Pre and Post Section | |||||
| Day 19 | POD XT and it's connections | Recording with Pod XT into cubase SX | |||
| USB Connections | |||||
| Protools | |||||
| Day 20 | Guitar GR 33 Synthesizer | Guitar GR 33 Synthesiser | Surround Sound | Guitar GR 33 Synthesiser | Practice today's session |
| Video Card Multiple Out | Protools | DTS and Dolby | |||
| Day 21 | Recording with other MIDI instruments | Routing for Surround Sound | Practice today's session | ||
| Protools and MIDI | |||||
| Day 22 | LAN,WAN,Virtual Private Networks | Protools in Mix | Audio through LAN | Mixing in protools | Practice today's session |
| Plugins,roting,groups sub Mixes | Recording through Internet | ||||
| Day 23 | Ethernet MIDI and Audio | Protools in Mix | Midi Through Lan | Recording through Internet | Practice today's session |
| Use multiple computers for Power Processing | Mixing in protools | ||||
| for plugins | |||||
| Latency Issues | |||||
| Processing Power | |||||
| Using Delays | |||||
| Day 24 | Ethernet MIDI and Audio | Protools in Mix and Master | |||
| Connecting Protools,Cubase SX and Ableton Live | Mixing in protools | Practice today's session | |||
| 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 orietation day,so the interest to know how develops in the trainee | |||||