Welcome to MUS 14B on the Web

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Classwork & Assignments

• Weekly Stuff
• Syllabus (includes weekly reading assignments)
• Class Poll
• Mastering Exercise
• Links where you can get audio multitracks and search for MIDI files to practice mixing and project management: Multitracks from TELEFUNKEN, Multitracks from Cambridge Music Technology and vanBasco's MIDI Search
• Stems and Multitracks: What's the Difference? (Hint: you want tracks that are unprocessed.)
• Mixing Exercise
• Audio Spectrum and Classifying The Audio Spectrum Frequencies (Get familiar with the terms discussed.)
• Equalization Exercise. Instructions (PDF file). Download the project audio files
• MIDI Note Velocity Values for Music Dynamics
• Sequencing and Arranging Exercise Instructions
• Making Your MIDI Sequences Breathe
• Noise Gate Exercise Instructions (The project zip file is available on Brightspace)
• Routing Exercise Instructions (The project zip file is available on Brightspace)
• Final Projects Instructions
• End Of The Road, Boyz II Men – For almost 25 years, this was the last song I played in my MUS 1G/1P classes at the end of a semester. It's a perfect record. In your career, may you write/produce/perform/mix or master one as good. Got the talent? Go do it!

Reading Material

These books are available online and in the Tech Lab. EPUB versions are also available to download and read on your computer or mobile device.

• Logic Pro User Guide
• Logic Pro Instruments
• Logic Pro Effects
• Logic Pro X Support

Recommended Ancillary Reading Material

• Logic Pro - Apple Pro Training Series: Professional Music Production
• Logic Pro X. Graham English
• The Mixing Engineer's Handbook, 5th Edition. Bobby Owsinski.

Lab Equipment Manuals

• M-Audio Oxygen 61
• Rode NT1-A
• Scarlett 18i20
• Yamaha HS5
• Zoom L-20 LiveTrak

Miscellaneous

• The Harmonic Series
• Instrument Ranges
• Train Your Ears (Ear Training for Sound Engineers. Windows and Macintosh)
  Note: there are several similar mobile apps available for training. These include hearEQ and Quiztones
• The Distortion of Sound
  A documentary about the decline of sound quality and how technology has changed the way we listen to music
• Is there a science behind creating pop hits?
• She did it. Can you?
• Mastering a Song Start to Finish with Emerson "Em" Mancini
  Find out more about mastering from a mastering engineer's perspective. Yes – it may be more advanced for some but that's okay – you'll learn! Very Ozone-oriented but what is discussed can be done with other plug-ins and effects.