Audio Engineering

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

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!