Education Area
The links above are for teaching materials and learning aids which are being used by students at New College Telford on the HND and HNC in Music Production.
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Engineering & Practical Recording
“We’ll fix it in the mix”
Anon
- 24 track sheet (the Alesis ADAT one) (PDF)
- Mic Choice Chart
- Synchronisation
- Drum Kit Miking
- Recording Percussion
- 37 Recording Tips
- Recording Guitars Study Pack
- Preparing for a Location Recording
- DIY Acoustic Treatment
- Recording Bass Guitar
- Recording Electric Guitar
- Recording Acoustic Guitar
- Recording Vocals
- Stereo Miking Lecture Notes
Production
“We’ll fix it in the mastering”
Anon
- EQ Chart
- Drum Production
- Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies (one of many sites; do a Google search)
- EQ Terminology
- Compressor Settings
- Reverb Settings
- Mixdown Hints
- Panning at Mixdown
- 3D Mixing
- Remixing
- Pre-Production Planning
- DDL Settings
- MS Processing
- Advanced Vocal Processing
Mastering
“We’ll fix it in the shrink wrap”
Frank Zappa
- CDR and DVD-R Labeling
- Multiband Compression
- Mastering EQ
- Mastering EQ Chart
- SOS articles on CD standards and APRS labelling
Music Technology
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison, inventor of the sound recorder
Acoustics
“Eating fava beans and gnawing on the heads of one’s parents are one and the same.”
Attributed to Pythagoras
Music Business
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”
Hunter S. Thompson
- Music Marketing Links
- Professionals in New College?!
- Market Research Links
- SOS Business Articles
- Which Business Type?
- Accounts Links
- CD Cost Breakdown
- Record Label Income
- The APRS standard contract for studio hire and post-production work and the booking agreement form (PDF)
- Counting the Notes, the industry’s economic profile (PDF)
- The HND1’s Guide to the Music Business
- Record Label Lecture Notes
Synthesis
“The idea of the producer as someone who mediates and converses between the completely non-technical musician and non-artistic engineer, which was the old picture, is now dead because most musicians now occupy all three of those roles.”
Brian Eno
Computer Music Production
“There are 10 kinds of people; those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”
Unknown
- Introduction to MIDI
- Running Status
- Computer Music Glossary
- Akai S3000XL manual (zipped pdf)
- Plug-In Formats
- Using DXi synths in Sonar v1
- Using DXi Synths in Sonar v2
- Introduction to Sampling
- Event List in Sonar
- Groove Clips in Sonar
- MIDI Files
- Stereo Editing
- File Organisation
- Downloads and Upgrades
- Computer Music Connectivity
Emagic Logic Pro
“Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, but in the feel of it.”
Stanley Kubrick
Digidesign Pro Tools
“If Gram was around today, he’d still be dead.”
Gram Parsons’ old tour manager
- Pro Tools 6.1 Reference Guide (PDF)
- Pro Tools Keyboard Shortcuts (PDF)
- Digi’s Links We Like
- Getting Started With Mbox (PDF)
- Digi’s Technical Document Library
Composition and Theory
“A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.”
Benny Green
Music for Media
“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”
Igor Stravinsky
Hardware
“If Gram was around today, he’d still be dead.”
Gram Parsons’ old tour manager
Extras
“Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”
Frank Zappa
Handbooks
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Henry Ford
Updated 29/09/06
© Matt Bellingham 2003 – 2006
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