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• Audio Engineering
• Code: AUD110
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• Software: Audacity (Free download provided in course)
• Prerequisite: None
• Related Courses: See course index at left

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This introductory audio engineering course teaches the four main steps of professional recording projects: recording, editing, mixing, and mastering.

You'll complete a series of hands-on projects using Audacity®, a powerful free audio editing program that will allow you to develop original projects of your own.

Topics you'll learn about include:

• Audacity’s workspace and tools
• Tones and waveforms
• Protecting your hearing
• Recording studios and formats
• Echo and reverb effects
• MIDI and DAW
• Syncing audio
• Changing temp and pitch
• Digital and analog recording
• Using other people’s music legally and ethically
• Adjusting gain and sound
• Encoding and exporting audio
• Mastering audio files
• Microphones and microphone placement
• Mixing samples to create a new track
• Equalizing, compressing, and normalizing audio files
• Adding fading and crossfading, phaser effects, and wah wah effects
• And much more!