Thursday, November 20th

• • • ProTools - Fine Tuning Audio Clips - Module Intro -

Tuesday, November 18th

• • ProTools - Fine Tuning Audio Clips - Module Intro -
• Audio For Film
  • We will begin working on adding sound to film. The exact assignment requirements will be posted soon
    • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wptiHfC0wQdwT50NXVJLwR8aIkXhHDkA?usp=share_link↗

Thursday, November 6th

• ProTools - Keeping Time - Module Intro - review and quiz
• Continue ProTools - Drum Programming - Module Intro -
  • Drum Programming manages a lot of the quantization aspect for you
• Delays - Module Intro -

Tuesday, November 4th

• Microphone Basics - Module Intro - review
• ProTools - Keeping Time - Module Intro -
• ProTools - Drum Programming - Module Intro -
  • Expanding Your Creative Drum Vocabulary

Thursday, October 23rd

• Studio Tour
  • Don't lean against the wall!
  • No food or drink, except closed bottles of water!
• Levels - Mic, Line, and Speaker
• Four Steps of Recording
• Studio A Patchbays
• • Setup Sheet - Gear
• Review of Microphone Basics - Module Intro -

Tuesday, October 21st

• Microphone Basics - Module Intro -
  • Review basic microphone techniques
• Fine Tuning Audio Clips module continuation: lab time

Thursday, October 16th

• Video Resources
• Fine Tuning Audio Clips module
  • ProTools - Fine Tuning Audio Clips - Module Intro -
• Adding an Audio Suite Effect
• Next project is to work on applying sound effects to a film or create a radio voiceover
  • For sounds, go to freesound.org

Tuesday, October 14th

• Collect Samples
• Import Samples as 32 bit
• Create a 32 bit ProTools session
• Collecting Sounds with Field Recorder

Thursday, October 9th

• Compression, review
• Compression Quiz
• The 3 Steps to Record
• Next class - field trip

Tuesday, October 7th

• Compression - Module Intro -
• ASMR Demo

Thursday, October 2nd

• Review Homework Criteria
  • ProTools Project Structure
    • Exporting Audio Mix Down
    • Compressed Project Folder Link on Google Drive
    • Audio Files
  • Capturing Screenshots
    • Screenshots
• EQ
• Intro to Compression

Tuesday, September 30th

• Review Homework
• Review Pro Q 3 Module
  • Audio Effects - Pro-Q 3 - Module Intro -
  • QUIZ
• Practicing hearing frequency differences
  • Instrument Frequency Ranges
• Reviewing ProTools Project Structure for Export

Thursday, September 25th, 2025

• EQ Module review
• Pro Q 3 Moudle continued
• Frequency and Filters quiz!
• Practicing with Cambridge Mixes
  • Useful for completing homework assignment if you re having trouble with tracks
• System Sound vs ProTools Sound
• Exporting Project:
  • Exporting Audio Mix Down
  • Compressed Project Folder Link on Google Drive

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025

• EQ Module review
• Pro Q 3 Moudle continued
• Homework 1, due Thursday, October 2nd

Thursday, September 18th

• Continue modules from last class

Tuesday, September 16th

• Continue Gain Staging Module
  • Take Quiz
• Looking ahead, for next 2 weeks.
  • Acoustics Basics Module
  • EQ Module
  • Pro Q 3 Moudle
• Lab
  • Continue working on Multi-tracks

Thursday, September 11th

• Quiz
• Finish Pro Tools - Intro to Gain Staging module
• Practice mixing using Multitracks
  • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g3t_ff8PWlDfFrkYyIuf5-ANB_64ZCWF?usp=share_link↗

  • https://www.cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/↗

• 105 Content To Migrate/Ableton/Audio Effects/Audio Effects

Tuesday, September 9th

• ProTools - Gain Staging Basics - Module Intro
  • Renaming Tracks
  • Coloring Tracks
  • Folder Tracks
• Selecting and Unselecting
  • Stay tuned for article!
    • To make a CONTIGUOUS selection, click the first thing in the selection, hold down shift, and then click the last thing in your selection
    • To make a DISJOINT selection, hold down command on the individual items that you'd like to make up the selection
    • To DESELECT, hold down command

Thursday, September 4th

• - ProTools - Basic Workflow - Module Intro -
  • The Soundbase
  • Troubleshooting - Can't find Scarlett Playback Engine
• ProTools - Audio Clips and Tracks - Module Intro -
  • Using ProTools's tools
    • Smart
      • Grabber
      • Selector
      • Trim
      • Fades
      • Scrubber
  • Adjusting Volume
    • 06. Clip Gain for adjusting volume of specific clip
    • Volume Faders for adjusting volume of overall track (in mix view)
      • To get to mic view, press cmd =
  • Using ProTools Edit Modes
    • Synchronized
      • Slip
      • Grid
    • Unsynchronized
      • Shuffle
    • Film Placement
      • Spot
  • Loops

Tuesday, September 2nd

• Review
• Mac Literacy
  • Spaces
• - ProTools - Basic Workflow - Module Intro -
• ProTools - Audio Clips and Tracks - Module Intro -
• ProTools Licensing Troubleshooting

Thursday, August 31st

• Introduction to electroacoustic landscape
• Balanced vs Unbalanced Signals
• Levels - Mic, Line, and Speaker
• Audio Science/Audio Equipment Theory/Audio Jacks