Day 1
- What is sound?
- How do we perceive it?
- What are its properties and how does the environment effect it?
- How do you take care of your ears?
- Hearing loss and precautions
- The Fletcher-Munson curve
- What are beats?
- What is masking?
- What are combination tones?
- What is a transducer?
- What are reflection, diffraction, absorption and diffusion?
- What is a waveform?
- What are its characteristics?
- Amplitude
- Frequency
- Velocity
- Wavelength
- Phase
- Harmonic Content
- Envelope
- Attack
- Decay
- Sustain
- Release
- How do you control sound in the studio?
- Tips and tricks for converting your home into a studio.

Day 2
- What is a microphone and how do they work?
- Types of microphones
- Dynamic
- Ribbon
- Condenser
- Electret
- Microphone Characteristics
- Pick up pattern (directional response)
- Frequency response
- Transient response
- Sensitivity
- Noise rating
- Overload characteristics
- Impedance
- Line level vs mic level
- Microphone pre-amps
What is phantom power?
- Audio cable types
- What is a DI ?

Day 3
- Song writing tips
- The recording process
- Production tips
- DAW’s
- Audio processing
- Pitch shift
- Reverse
- Gain
- Silence
- Time strectch
- Normalize
- Fades, Cross Fades
- VST’s
- Dynamics processing (limiters, compressors)
- Gates, EQ, Reverb, Delay ect.
- Latency
- Mixing techniques
- Copyright brief
- Socan
- BMI
- Myspace
- Where does your demo go?
- How do you prepare it?
- How to make a promo package (press pack)
- Other outlets for your music.
- Further reading and education suggestions

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