Comments on: Education http://giantspheres.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:35:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kristoffer Benoit http://giantspheres.com/education/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Kristoffer Benoit Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:55:41 +0000 http://giantspheres.com/blog/?page_id=90#comment-111 Due to the feedback from the last run of this course I have begun developing a follow up program which will be taught privately in a working studio. The course will include the following outline and a copy of "The Mixing engineers handbook" by Bobby Owsinski Day 1 - Planning your production - A Drum tuning lesson with Richard Jager or Matt Doerty - Setting the tempo - Drum microphone techniques - Drum track recording Day 2 - Guitar recording techniques - Guitar recording - Bass recording techniques - Bass recording - A brief discussion on MIDI - Piano/Keyboard recording techniques and recording Day 3 - Vocal recording techniques - Vocal recording - Back up vocal recording - Solo instrument recording - "Pad" instrument recording - Another look at MIDI Day 4 - Cleaning up our takes. - Using Gates - Creating sub groups/aux/bus channels - Balancing our mix (volume and panning) - Using Eq, compression and de-essing to empower and smooth out our mix - Using effects like reverberation, delay and chorus to give our track depth - A brief visit with auto-tune/vocoders and exciters Day 5 - Re visiting and finishing our mix - Preparing our track for mastering - Bouncing to a stereo file - A brief intro into mastering - Using a dither - A discussion on duplication and distribution Due to the feedback from the last run of this course I have begun developing a follow up program which will be taught privately in a working studio.

The course will include the following outline and a copy of “The Mixing engineers handbook” by Bobby Owsinski

Day 1

- Planning your production
- A Drum tuning lesson with Richard Jager or Matt Doerty
- Setting the tempo
- Drum microphone techniques
- Drum track recording

Day 2

- Guitar recording techniques
- Guitar recording
- Bass recording techniques
- Bass recording
- A brief discussion on MIDI
- Piano/Keyboard recording techniques and recording

Day 3

- Vocal recording techniques
- Vocal recording
- Back up vocal recording
- Solo instrument recording
- “Pad” instrument recording
- Another look at MIDI

Day 4

- Cleaning up our takes.
- Using Gates
- Creating sub groups/aux/bus channels
- Balancing our mix (volume and panning)
- Using Eq, compression and de-essing to empower and smooth out our mix
- Using effects like reverberation, delay and chorus to give our track depth
- A brief visit with auto-tune/vocoders and exciters

Day 5

- Re visiting and finishing our mix
- Preparing our track for mastering
- Bouncing to a stereo file
- A brief intro into mastering
- Using a dither
- A discussion on duplication and distribution

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