AUDIO MASTERCLASS

Learn PRO Audio in your own home recording studio with...

Raise your knowledge and skills from where you are now to FULLY PROFESSIONAL level.

Our 12-module MUSIC PRODUCTION & SOUND ENGINEERING Online Course covers everything you need to know - WITH MORE

THAN 1000 AUDIO EXAMPLE FILES!

• Acoustics, Electronics and Digital Audio.

• Microphones and Microphone Preamplifiers

• Equalization for recording and mixing

• Compression and Dynamic Range Control

• Recording Software, Effects and Plug-Ins

• Mixing

• Mastering

• Marketing Your Music and Recording Services

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Learn and understand soundproofing and acoustic treatment, with audio examples. Understand how electronic signals work and how they affect your music. Know exactly why 24-bit/96 kilohertz digital audio is better than compact disc standard.

Understand the foundations of audio

Choose microphones with confidence, knowing exactly what they will sound like (through many of the 1000+ audio examples in the course). Know when and why to use a ‘character’ preamp, and when to use one that is simply accurate.

Learn microphones and preamplifiers

Make your sounds stand out strongly when you want them to, or blend into the background to support your lead instruments or vocals. Learn how to apply ‘complementary EQ’ to make each instrument crystal-clear in your mix.

Use EQ and compression with confidence

Mix complex music with ease, even when there are dozens of tracks. Use our professionally-recorded source material to refine your skills. Master your music so that it sounds as good as what you hear on TV, radio, CD and download.

Mix and master your music

Follow our practical do-able advice on how to get your music noticed. Find out where the best markets for your music are, and how to promote your work effectively. Profit from your recording and your production skills.

Market your music and your studio skills

In just 12 weeks, you will transform the standard of your recordings from ‘home studio’ to

FULLY PROFESSIONAL QUALITY

Enroll online at www.AudioMasterclass.com/enroll

A special message from Audio Masterclass Course Director

David Mellor

Dear Recording Enthusiast,

Are you satisfied with the quality of your recordings?

Does your music sound as good as the music you hear on TV, radio, CD and download?

If you can hear that your recordings are not yet of a professional standard, you have taken your first and most important step. You realize that you need to improve.

Fortunately, getting better recordings is straightforward... If you know and understand thoroughly how each piece of equipment and software in the recording chain works, then you can begin to use your studio effectively and make great recordings

This is what the Audio Masterclass Music Production and Sound Engineering Online Course will do for you.

I have designed and refined this course through my 26 years of experience in Audio Training. With its clear explanations and more than 1000 audio example files, it will show you exactly what to do, and demonstrate with audio what you can achieve.

I am so confident that this course will help you achieve a fully professional standard of recording in just 12 weeks, I am happy to offer a 30-day FULL-REFUND GUARANTEE. If you are not absolutely, totally, 100% delighted with the course, you can have the whole of your enrollment fee back, and you can keep course materials that you have already downloaded.

Why wait? You could struggle endlessly, not making the PRO recordings you desire. Or you could take advantage of the Audio Masterclass Music Production and Sound Engineering Online Course and start making progress towards great recordings NOW!

David Mellor Course Director, Audio Masterclass

P.S. I have more experience in audio training than almost anyone in the world, and I am the most experienced online audio trainer. I just thought you would like to know that.

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Course Outline

Learn in your own home recording studio• Learn how to optimize your soundproofing and

studio acoustics, with audio examples.

• Understand professional standards, and how to achieve them in a home studio environment.

• Know how to achieve a clean signal; recognize what distortion sounds like.

• Understand digital audio; why 24-bit/96 kHz is the optimum standard to use, and why 16-bit/44.1 kHz might sometimes be necessary (and how to get the best out of it).

Get the best from your microphones and preamplifiers• How to select the best microphone according to

the sound source and type of sound you want to achieve.

• Understand how microphones work. Know exactly why high-class microphones sound the way they do (with audio examples).

• Understand the difference between ‘accurate’

preamplifiers and ‘character’ preamplifiers. Spend your money wisely and get exactly the sounds that you are looking for.

• Learn microphone techniques to get the best from instruments and vocals.

Achieve full, rich sounds using EQ and compression• ‘Fine tune’ each instrument and vocal to make it

sound exactly the way it should.

• Make all of your sounds full, strong, rich and clear.

• Learn and understand the differences between parametric and graphic EQ. Know when and why to use each type. With audio examples.

• Use compression to control dynamic range.

• Understand why variable-mu compression adds warmth and sparkle, particularly to vocals, with audio examples.

Be the master of your recording software and plug-ins• Achieve great results from Cubase, Digital

Performer, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Sonar - in fact any pro-standard recording software.

• Learn the seven steps to successful software recording - record, edit, use insert processes, use bus effects, mix, use mix automation, use master processing.

• Hear the difference between digital reverberation plug-ins, with audio examples..

• Experience a wide range of pro-quality processes and effects.

Learn recording techniques for bands, orchestras, choirs and acoustic ensembles• Make great recordings in the studio, and on

location.

Audio Masterclass Music Production & Sound Engineering Online Course

• Mic up individual instruments and groups of instruments with total confidence.

• Run a session smoothly and efficiently.

• Organize musicians, singers and musical directors - as engineer and producer, YOU are in charge!

Focus in on the essentials of synthesis and sampling - get great musical sounds without the hassle• Learn the essentials of the main types of

synthesis.

• Get great results from software instruments quickly by avoiding unnecessary complications.

• Learn how samplers work. Make your own samples and multisamples, or get the best out of sample libraries.

Learn how to mix - Mix a professionally-made multitrack recording• Mix All Or Nothing by Audio Masterclass

Featured Artists Fools Faith, from the original multitrack recordings (which you can import into your own digital audio workstation).

• Mix an acoustic drum set.

• Hear how acoustic drums sound in the context of a professionally-made multitrack recording.

• Work with electric, bass and acoustic guitar recordings.

• Work with lead and background vocals.

• Compare your mix with the original producer’s mix.

Master you music so it sounds like music you hear on TV, radio, CD and download• Use master EQ to give your mix the same

frequency balance as commercially-released recordings.

• Use compression and limiting to increase the loudness of your mix.

• Learn and understand what mastering plug-ins do, and how they work.

• Hear the effect of the powerful multi-band compression technique, with audio examples..

Market your music and recording services• Market yourself or your band effectively using a

professional ‘media pack’. Hint - most not-yet-pro artists and bands get this completely wrong!

• Learn how the market for songs works.

• Learn how music is commissioned for TV dramas and programs. Learn how to put yourself ‘in the right place at the right time’.

• Learn about the most accessible route into the PRO industry - production music.

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Take your first vital steps out of your home studio into the PRO recording industry...

Course Module Guide...

Module 1: Analog and Digital Audio Primer

Analog audio, signals, frequency response, noise, distortion, wow & flutter, clicks and interference, digital audio, analog-to-digital conversion, sampling, quantization, dither, digital-to-analog conversion.

Module 2: Microphone Technique

Dynamic microphones, capacitor microphones, ribbon microphones, electret microphones, polar patterns, vacuum tube microphones, attenuator, filter.

Module 3: Microphone Preamplifiers

Microphone preamplifiers, gain, phase, microphone selection, microphone positioning, stereo microphone techniques.

Module 4: Equalization

High-frequency equalization, frequency, gain, bell/shelf, mid-frequency equalization, Q, low-frequency equalization, graphic equalizers, parametric equalizers, filters, cut-off frequency, slope.

Module 5: Compression

Dynamic range control, threshold, ratio, attack, decay, knee, stereo linking, side chain, compression for aural enhancement, vacuum tube compressors.

Module 6: Recording Software

Disk recording, hard disks, seek time, rotational speed, input/output assignment, recording, editing and crossfade editing, gain change and normalization, mixing, inserts, auxiliary sends, auxiliary tracks, buses, master fader.

Module 7: Effects and Plug-ins

Delay and reverberation, phasing, flanging, chorusing, pitch change, aural enhancement, comparison between manual effects, hardware effects and plug-ins.

Module 8: Synthesis and Sampling

Additive synthesis, subtractive synthesis, FM synthesis, wavetable synthesis, physical modeling synthesis, analog synthesis, voltage-controlled oscillator, voltage-controled filter, voltage-controled amplifier, envelope generator, sampling, looping, multisampling, phrase sampling, key groups.

Module 9: Recording Techniques

Vocals, drums, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, string instruments, wind instruments, percussion instruments, drums, small groups and ensembles, orchestral recording, multitrack recording, punch-in, foldback, stereo recording.

Module 10: Mixing

Analog mixing consoles, digital mixing consoles, digital mixing through software, automation, mutes, faders, pan, equalization, compression, noise gating, auxiliary sends, auxiliary returns, mixing for stereo, mono compatibility, monitoring.

Module 11: Mastering

Equalization, compression, limiting, multi band compression, soft clipping, mastering for subjective loudness, mastering to match tracks in a compilation.

Module 12: Marketing Your Music and Music Production and Sound Engineering Services

Industry roles, record producer, recording engineer, A&R manager, studio manager, session musician, arranger, programmer, the music industry, the recording industry and record labels, pitching and promoting your services as an artist, engineer or producer. Showreel guidance.

The Audio Masterclass Music Production & Sound Engineering Online Course

How does the course work?

The Audio Masterclass Music Production and Sound Engineering course is delivered to you online in twelve modules containing the equivalent of over 500 pages of learning materials.

The course also contains over 1000 professionally-recorded audio example files, and practical assignment examples where you can learn from the successes, and mistakes, of former Audio Masterclass students.

There are also complete, professionally-made multitrack recordings that you can mix yourself in your own home recording studio.

The main course text of the Audio Masterclass Music Production and Sound Engineering online course is principally self-study and self-assessed, which accounts for its value-for-money course fee. Each module includes dozens of ‘check questions’ for you to assess your own progress. At all times you can ask Audio Masterclass any questions for further guidance.

Each module comes with a practical project that you can carry out in your own home studio. You will need a microphone (preferably two), an audio interface and a computer running multitrack recording software. When you have completed your practical project you can compare your work with professionally-made recordings. Our step-by-step assessment system will allow you to pinpoint and cure any defects in your recording.

What equipment do I need?

You should have a recent computer with multitrack digital audio workstation software, such as Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic etc. You should have at least one microphone equivalent to or better than the Shure SM57, an audio interface, and loudspeaker or headphone monitoring.

Do I need any experience to enroll on the course?

It is useful to have some experience of recording at home with your own

equipment. However, the course is very thorough and it will take you from whatever level of knowledge and skill you have now all the way up to professional level, if you follow it carefully.

How long does the course take?

The course consists of twelve modules, which you are recommended to study at a weekly pace. However you can pause your course at any time, taking up to two years to complete if you wish.

Is there a certificate at the end of the course?

Yes, but traditionally the audio industry hasn’t been very interested in certificates. They are only interested in what you can do.

The Audio Masterclass course leads to something that is very much better than any certificate. At the end of the course you will create a ‘showreel’.

About showreels...

You can’t get work from a potential client or employer unless you can demonstrate to them what you can do. The best way of doing this is by showing them your industry credits. That would be, for example, “Engineered by ...” in a CD booklet. Or a resumé of other clients or employers you have worked for.

Alternatively, you can simply hand over your showreel. Your showreel will be a compilation on DVD or CD of extracts from your best work. Module 12 of the Audio Masterclass course will demonstrate exactly what a showreel should be like, and how you can set about making one.

If you wish, you can send in your completed showreel, including all of your practical work for the course, for assessment and certification. There is no additional charge for this.

How long is the course?

There are 12 modules, which you are normally recommended to study at a weekly pace. You can pause at any time and take up to two years if you wish.

I have quite a lot of experience already. Will I still benefit from the course?

At Audio Masterclass we often meet people in your situation who have achieved a degree of success in sound engineering or music recording. However, they can feel uncomfortable that they are making the best out of a narrow range of knowledge, rather than feeling confident that they know as much as anyone in a similar position would, who perhaps had better learning opportunities. The course therefore would give you the confidence that all the foundations of recording techniques and music technology had been covered. There is a lot of hype produced by recording magazines that depend on manufacturers advertising with them. In reality, there are certain basics of audio that anyone in the industry needs to know. The course will give you exactly that.

Can you advise on specific equipment or software?

One of the purposes of the course is to allow you to understand equipment and software. By the end of the course you will understand equipment and software well, and you will be able to make your own purchasing decisions with confidence.

Can I pay in a currency other than US dollars, UK pounds or Euros?

Yes. Whether you pay by PayPal, Worldpay, bank transfer or Western Union the payment processor will convert currencies for you. You can find up-to-date exchange rates at www.xe.com

Who is David Mellor?

David Mellor is Course Director of Audio Masterclass, with 26 years of experience in audio. You can learn more about David Mellor at www.audiomasterclass.com/about

Can I take this course from anywhere in the world?

Yes. Even Antarctica, as long as you have Internet access.

Frequently-Asked Questions...

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Enrollment Information...

Course FeeThe course fee for the Audio Masterclass Music Production and Sound Engineering Course is available at www.audiomasterclass.com/enroll

The course fee covers 12 modules, each including introduction, comprehensive module text, check questions and model answers, audio example files, detailed audio examples notes, practical project, detailed practical project notes with additional audio examples.

Audio Masterclass offers enrollments at several times during the year. If you registered for the free Course Tour (available at the Audio Masterclass website), then you will automatically be notified when enrollment is available.

You can try the course for 30 days. If you are not absolutely, totally, 100% delighted, your enrollment fee will be fully refunded.

Enroll by PayPalWe recommend payment by PayPal as the easiest way to get started on the course. You can pay by debit or credit card, or with your PayPal account if you have one. www.audiomasterclass.com/enroll

Enroll by BitcoinIt is possible to pay the course fee by bitcoin. We recommend this for those who already hold bitcoins, or have difficulty in transferring money outside of their country.

Enroll by Bank TransferYou can pay by bank transfer using the following account details...

Bank: National Westminster Bank, 1 Penn Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire HP9 2PU, UK Account name: Audio Masterclass Account number 84029684 Bank sort code: 600209 IBAN: GB10 NWBK 6002 0984 0296 84 BIC: NWBK GB 2L

Enroll by CheckSend your check to Audio Masterclass, 114 High Street, Tetsworth, Thame, OX9 7AE, United Kingdom.

Enroll by Western UnionMake your payment to David Mellor (who is Course Director of Audio Masterclass), then send an e-mail to david.mellor@audiomasterclass.com quoting the reference number of the transaction and your address.

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