AT101 Review Concepts

Intro To Audio:

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- Threshold of Hearing! !
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- Acoustics
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- Beats
- Fundamental frequencies and Harmonics !
- Timbre ! !
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- Wave propagation!!
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- dBm, dBu, dBSPL!

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Basic Signal Flow: Mackie 1604:

- Aux Master section !
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- Phantom Power (specific to the 1604)! !
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- Stereo Returns! !
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- Insert Points
- Aux Send section (Pre-fader vs. Post-fader)!

- Serial and Parallel connections
- Powering up/ down procedure for audio gear !
- Inline vs. Split Bus consoles!

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Intro To DAW:

- Sampling ! !
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- Sample Rate !
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- Dither! !
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- Stereo interleaved files! !
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- ADAT, S/PDIF, AES/EBU, TDIF protocols!

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Pro Tools:

- Pro Tools Native ! !
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- Mix window (inserts and sends)
- Edit window
- Transport window !
- iLok
- Smart Tool
- Quick Key for creating a New Track
- Quick Key to toggle between Mix and Edit windows ! !
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- Disk Allocation
- Key Focus (Zoom keys)
- Edit Modes
- Audio Suite plug-in format ! !

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Music Theory:

- Most common time signature (on the staff, the key signature !
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- Notes on a keyboard! !
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- Beats & measures
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- Chords
- Whole & quarter Notes!
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Intro To MIDI:

- 5 pin din connector
- MIDI definition
- General MIDI! (channel 10 is used for percussion/drums)! !
- MIDI Time Code! !
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- SMPTE: Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
- Quantization
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- Midi cable length
- Language MIDI uses to communicate!
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Signal Processing:

- 3 main categories of Audio Signal Processors!
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- Cutoff Frequency! !
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- Compression vs. Limiting! !
- Compressor Controls
- Dynamic vs Time based FX ! !
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- Expander/Gates
- DeEsser and Sibilance!

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Microphones:

- Blumlein Mic Technique
- XY mic Technique! !
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- Spaced Pair (AB)! !
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- Mutual Angle
- Direct Injection (D.I.) Box! !
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- Proximity Effect
- 3:1 rule
- Pads
- Polar patterns
- Transducer
- XLR Cable! !
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- Phantom Power! !
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- ShockMount!!
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- When recording, distortion can be introduced at the preamp or !
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