VACA 2060 - Audio Mixing and Summing

4.5 Credits

This course is an advanced study of procedures to achieve controlled mixes in the digital and analog mixing environments. It focuses on aspects of digital and analog summing, headroom, gain stages, subgroups, side-chair processing, hardware inserts, delay compensation, clocking, maintaining digital resolution, digital synchronization, A/D D/A conversion, sample rate conversion, dithering, serial order of processing, mid/side processing, and more. Students complete such assignments as signal flow drawings, equipment research, and a final project focusing on subgroup mixing techniques.

Prerequisites: (3) VACA 1020; VACA 2020; and VACA 2050

Lecture Hours: 3.5
Lab Hours: 3.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

1. Create a full understanding of signal flow to and from the recorder

2. Create sub-mixes and subgroup layouts in a technically creative manner

3. Apply time alignment and phase related subgroups to a mix.

4. Describe side-chain techniques and apply them within sub-mixes and subgroup mixes.

5. Include gain stages within the DAW environment.

6. Apply headroom and controlling mixes resolution within the DAW environment.

7. Produce a final project using the skills learned throughout the course.

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