We'll create a training plan that takes into account your specific skills, background, and goals, and give you hands-on training - at our studio or yours.

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Our one-on-one training will allow you to learn exactly what you need and want to know, whether you're a complete novice, a musician with an interest in production, or an engineer seeking to build on prior experience with new, advanced techniques.

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Below are some of the topics we cover with our Production Training clients:

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• Configuration of your Digital Audio Workstation (ex: setting up templates for quick operation, RAM/buffer settings, hard drive optimization)

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• Signal Flow, Routing, Types of Connections, and Monitoring (ex: balanced cabling, electrical grounding, room tuning/acoustics, creating headphone mixes and minimizing bleed)

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• Properties of Sound and Digital Audio Fundamentals (ex: phase relationships, Nyquist theorem, bit/sample rate conversion, dithering)

 

• Microphones and Preamps (ex: mic types/uses, polar patterns, preamp behavior/color)

 

• Proper Gain Staging and Signal-to-Noise Ratio (ex: using all the bits without overs)

 

• Best Practices for using Compressors / Dynamic Range (ex: compression types, de-essing sidechaining, dynamic EQ using multiband compressors)

 

• Best Practices for using Equalizers / Frequency (ex: frequency ranges of common instruments, Fletcher-Munson curves, types of filters)

 

• Audio Editing (ex: phase-locked drum editing/flex/elastic audio, work quickly with key commands, how to identify pops and clicks and eliminate them in a waveform)

 

• Mic Placement and Stereo Miking Techniques (ex: proper distance for each instrument, Blumlein, M-S, spaced pair)

 

• MIDI Fundamentals (CC#s, controllers, editing velocity, quantization and other parameters)

 

• Mixing Fundamentals: Compression, EQ, and Effects (ex: achieving sonic dimension and vibrancy in your mixes)

 

• Mastering Audio (ex: maximizing loudness while preserving transients and dynamic range, using reference tracks, checking on multiple systems)

 

• Music Theory and Arranging (ex: the relationship between arrangement and a good mix)