Course detail
Studio Practice 2
FEKT-JSP2Acad. year: 2016/2017
The course aims to familiarize students with the recording process - editing techniques, additional editing (artificial reverb) and the final processing of a record – the mastering of the record and documentation. The course includes practical exercises, computer skills, familiarity with specific music software and learning basic functions and techniques, personal music recording, voice recording, fades, etc. Students will also learn to perform a comparative analysis of recordings of different artists of the same piece (comparing the quality of the interpretation, processing methods of records, room acoustics, etc.).
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Number of ECTS credits
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- use artificial reverberation in the creation of audio recordings,
- use techniques for mastering in the creation of the final record,
- create documentation of musical recordings,
- analyze recordings of various artists of the same piece,
- operate computer programs for recording and processing musical recordings,
- create a professional speech recording.
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Lectures provide the explanation of basic principles, complemented with practical illustration of work in studio and with audio samples.
- Exercises support practical acquiring of themes presented at lectures in form of practical work in recording studio. Active participation of students is needed.
Participation at lectures is recommended. Participation at other ways of instruction is checked.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Course curriculum
4. - 5. Final record processing - mastering.
6. Documentation of music recordings.
7. - 8. Comparative analysis of recordings of different artists of the same piece.
9. - 11. Using a computer for one’s own recording.
12. - 13. Speech recording, fades.
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Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
FORRÓ, D. Počítače a hudba. Praha: Grada Publishing, spol. s r. o.. 320 s. ISBN 80-85623-57-9. (CS)
ŠÍP, L., Nahrávání a reprodukovaná hudba, Praha, Stát. hudeb. vyd. 1961. (CS)
VLACHÝ, V. Praxe zvukové techniky. Praha: Vydavatelství MUZIKUS, 1995. 257 s. ISBN 80-901537-6-3. (CS)
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