Session 1: Home recording technology has advanced rapidly over the last few years, making it possible to produce music in your bedroom that’s as high quality (fidelity wise) as any professionally produced music or audio at a fraction of the cost. We’ll be discussing some of the principals of home recording which allow you to cost effectively produce high fidelity audio without having to spend big bucks in a recording studio.

We will also talk about some of the hardware available for home studios. Professional quality audio is currently produced in inexpensive home studios around the world. Professional quality sound cards are available for as little as $129 (see http://www.m-audio.com/). With an inexpensive mixer and some reference monitors you can be on the way to building a “bedroom studio” of your own.

Session 2: How do you import movies into Pro Tools? How do you then display the movie? How do you get the audio from the QuickTime movie onto a track in Pro Tools? This is very important when producing audio for video. These are some of the things we’ll be going over today.

Final Project Milestone #1
Also, today I’ll be asking each of you to demonstrate that you are making progress on the final project. The following is a list of what I am expecting you to illustrate to me during our scheduled lab time today.

1. Show an example of the visuals that you are using for your final project.
2. Open and play a Pro Tools document that includes at least one track of audio.
3. Make sure that you have a master fader applied to your document.