Course detail
Studio Practice 2
FEKT-BPC-SP2Acad. year: 2025/2026
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.).
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
To obtain the credit it is necessary to complete at least 10 exercises during semester. Other forms of the checked instructions are specified by a regulation issued by the guarantee of the course and updated for every academic year.
Aims
The student will be able to:
- 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.
Study aids
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)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Recording session.
- Rawmixes and different approaches to postproduction.
- Recording session.
- Creative approach to recording and postproduction.
- Current technical guidlines for music recordings, technical standards of platforms.
- Presentation of projects.
Students may volunteer to participate in recording of chamber opera perforamces during semester.