Purpose:

To give the student a comprehension of the construction and use of audio systems.

Contents:

PA technique: microphone recording techniques, dummy-head technique, cables, grounding,

coupling, balancing, phantom power, equalisers, effect modules, noise gates,

compressors, expanders, pitch shift, deessers and delay systems.

Loudspeaker: crossover filters, amplifier and loudspeaker, loudspeaker and room.

Studio techniques: mixing desks, storage media, disk editing, emphasising, AD/DA

conversion, audio standards, musical synthesis, acoustical debugging/editing (aliasing, cut

and paste,

saturation, overflow etc.) and various types of distortion.

Multi-channel reproduction of sound: stereo and binaural technique, crosstalk cancellation,

and multi-channel standards and sound field synthesis.

Prerequisites:

Fundamentals of Acoustics, Acoustical Transducers and Digital Audio. Basics in analogue

and digital signal processing.

Duration:

1 ECTS

Category:

Project theme course (PE- course)