Audio Engineering Fundamentals

Audio Engineering Fundamentals Description

Audio Engineering Fundamentals walks you into the world of audio engineering from the ground up. It teaches you how to use a sound system properly for recording or for sound reinforcement. With the knowledge gained from this course, you will understand any audio system: analog, digital, vintage or modern.

Here’s what you will learn in this course:

• Introduction
  • Introduction
• Fundamentals of signals
  • The audio signal
  • Characteristics if signals
  • The decibel (dB)
  • Feeling the decibels
  • Referenced decibels
  • Fundamentals
• Sound systems
  • Characteristics of sound systems (part 1)
  • Characteristics of sound systems (part 2)
  • Stages of a sound system
  • Modular systems
  • Integrated systems
  • Examples of sound systems
• Concepts of electricity
  • Current, voltage and impedance
  • Ohm’s law
  • Series and parallel circuits
  • Impedance calculation
  • Circuits and electricity
• Audio levels and connectors
  • Audio levels
  • Mic and Instrument levels
  • Line level
  • Speaker level
  • Audio connectors (part 1)
  • Audio connectors (part 2)
  • Audio cable types
  • Levels and connectors
• Gain structure
  • Gain structure principles
  • Headroom
  • Distortion
  • How distortion sounds
  • Dynamic range
• Microphones
  • Kinds of microphones
  • Polar patterns
  • Microphones
• Multi-way systems
  • The multi-way systems
  • Passive crossover
  • Active crossover
  • Conventional vs line array systems
• Common problems
  • Proper use of microphones
  • Feedback control
  • Noise
  • Listening to the noise
  • Intelligibility improvement
  • Electrical ground connection
  • Common problems
• Conclusions
  • Conclusion
• Bonus lecture
  • Bonus lecture