[Imc] IMC AUDIO PRODUCTION COURSE OFFERING

[Paul Kotheimer]

howdy friends and neighbors:

i'd like to flesh out my audio training offer to the community.  i would
like to offer the following four-session course in audio production on
SERGEI (if that's okay with Brian, of course).  i would like groups of 3-5
students to organize themselves and propose a time schedule on which they
would like to take the course.

i would like the IMC to receive $50 for each full course, and i would like
to receive $150 for each full course (or, about $30 per classroom hour).  
if 5 students take the course, that comes out to $10 per student per
session.  i would like the students to deal with the money.  ideally, i
would simply be handed my $150 at the start of the first session.

the proposed syllablus below (as well as any of the terms of our
study--meeting times, number of meetings, etc.) can be amended by the
students and myself at anytime by our consensus.

until i get takers on this course, i will continue to give quick lessons
to people working on IMC projects, with priority given to broadcast
deadlines, of course.

i hope folks will be able to take me up on my offer.


here's the syllabus:

IMC AUDIO PRE-PRODUCTION FOR RADIO

Session One (60 min.) The IMC Production Room Overview

How to check out IMC audio equipment
Production Room orientation
SERGEI
our microphone collection
our minidisc recorders
mixing board
other components in our current audio setup.

Putting together a field kit for interviews, speeches, round-table
discussions.



Session Two (90 min.) Basic Audio Editing functions

editing on minidisc
reading in a minidisc to SERGEI (digital sound card, optimizing levels,
SoundForge recording window etc.)
SoundForge menu items:  Normalize, insert silence, fade in/out, Cut Copy
Paste, New File, etc.
organizing your audio files on SERGEI


Session Three (90 minutes) 

Voiceovers and in-production recording
What's a compressor?
Audio Plug-in Chainer
Noise Elim
Creating Presets
Basic multi-tracking in VEGAS


Session Four (90 min-2 hours +)

More multi-tracking in VEGAS
putting together your final product
FX chain setup
optimizing levels for broadcast
transferring the final product to CD 

Participants have SERGEI for hands-on project time.

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please respond to this e-mail with proposed student-groups and
study-times.

thanks,
paulkotheimer:)
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