Music Production & Sound Engineering

Instrument

• Piano
• Guitar

Introduction to DAW

• What is a Digital Audio Workstation

• Signal Flow | Equipment You Need

• Setting Up Your System

• Audio Preferences Setting

• MIDI Preferences Setting

• Optimizing Performance

Ableton Basics

• Introduction to Session View

• Ableton’s Interface Understanding

• Live’s Browser

• Loading, Playing, Stopping, Copying and Moving Clips

• Audio Clip and MIDI Properties

• Working with Scenes

• Tempo and Meter Changes to Scenes Setting

• Understanding File Structure and Saving Live Set

• Managing Files

• Exporting Clips and Devices

MIDI Recording & Editing

• Preparation to Record MIDI

• Recording and Overdubbing MIDI

• Entering MIDI Using Computer

• Step Sequencer to Enter MIDI

• Using the Pencil Tool to Enter MIDI

• MIDI Editor Understanding

• Configuring Grids

• Quantizing | Quantizing with Grooves | Live Quantizing

• Fold View in the Editor | Legato Option

• Editing MIDI Velocities

• Using Multi-Output Devices

Audio Recording & Arrangement

• Recording Audio

• Different Monitoring Modes

• Understanding Arrangement View

• Grids in Arrangement View | Permanent Scrub Areas

• Recording in Arrangement View

• From Recording Session View to Arrangement View

• Back to Arrange View Button

• Using Locators

• Regions Editing in Arrangement View

• Re-Working Clips

Mixing & Routing

• Live’s Mixer

• Exclusive Arm and Solo

• Sends and Returns

• Creating Manual Feedback for Returns

• Two Ways of Building Headphone Cues

• Grouping Tracks

Effects & Processing

• Using Effect Devices

• The Hot Swap Switch

• Filters and EQ

• Soloing Different EQ Bands

• EQ-ing in Stereo, L/R and M/S

• Compressors and Dynamic Processing

• Different Types of Delay Effect Processing

• Using Reverb Effectively

• Side-Chain Gating and Side-Chain Compression

MIDI Effects & Modulation

• Using MIDI Effects

• Arpeggiator | Chord | Scale

• Keyboard Mapping | MIDI Controller Mapping | Instant Mapping

Automation & Editing

• Automation Envelopes

• Recording Real-Time Automation

• Drawing Automation Manually

• Unlinking Clip Length and Automation Length

• Editing Automation

• Using Fades and Cross-Fades

Warping & Audio Manipulation

• Warping Audio

• Basics of Warping

• Understanding All Different Warping Modes in Detail

• Transient Markers and Warp Markers

• Warp to Quantize Audio

• Creating an Instrument Using Warp Markers

• Exporting/Bouncing Audio from Arrangement and Session View

• Isolating Chords from a Loop to Playback as an Authentic Chord

Racks & Advanced Tools

• Live Racks

• FX Racks

• Nested Racks

• Effects in Series and Parallel

• Using FX Chains

• Instrument Racks

• Key-Zone Editor and Velocity-Zone Editor

• Drum Racks

• Folly Sound

• I/O, Sends and Returns Inside the Drum Rack

• Choking Samples

• Using Macros

Performance & Creative Tools

• Launch Modes of Clips

• Follow Actions in Detail

• Making a Break-beat Using Follow Actions

Arrangements and Harmony

• Arrangement Structures
• Instrumentation and important instruments in a genre
• Sample Selection based on your genre
• Layering Samples and Synth sounds
• FX placement
• Automation – Filters, Pitch, Time etc…
• Building your own FX
• Basic Music Theory Rules and secrets to help you make melodies easily
• Major Scale Triads & Chord Tones
• Intervals
• Harmonizing in Thirds
• Seventh Chords
• Extensions
• Minor Scales & Modes
• Transposing & Inversions
• Bass & Melody

Mixing & Mastering

• Compressors and EQs

• Parallel Compression

• Side Chain Compression and Chain Gating

Recording Workflow

• Setting up a Recording Session

• Workflow for Recording

• Pre-amps

• Compression and EQ on Recording (Input) Stage

• Aux Channels; Busses

• Using Reverb and Delay on Aux Tracks

• Setting up Separate/Multiple Headphone Cues

Analog & Microphones

• Intro to Analog Mixing Board

• Microphones

• Working of Microphones

• Different Specifications of Microphones

• Types of Microphones

• Different Types of Polar Patterns

• Recording Instruments using XY, Spaced Pair, Mid Side

• Checking Phase of the Mics

Guitars

• Concept of DT

• Guitar Cabinet Recording

• On-axis, Off-axis Recordings

• DT in Guitars

• EQ and Compression on Guitars

Drums

• Miking and Recording a Drum Kit

• Solving Phase Issues

• Editing Drums using Phase Locked Editing

• Elastic Audio and Flex to Edit Drums

Vocals

• Recording and Editing

• Tips and Tricks to get Large Vocal Sound

• Concept of Multiple Takes and Add-libs in Vocals

• Understanding Types of Effects (Modulation Effects, Filter, Reverb, Delay, Distortion, Amps and Pedals Metering)

• Special Effects on Vocals

• Pitch Correction

• Waves Tune

• Reverse Reverb

Live Recording

• Live Sound Recording

Background Music For Movies, trailers and ads

Background music refers to various styles of music or soundscapes primarily intended to be passively listened to. It is not meant to be the main focus of an audience, but rather to supplement that which is meant to be focused upon. Our Sound Engineering Course In Chandigarh makes our students experts in each and every aspect of sound engineering.

Music Genres we Coverd

• Bollywood
• Punjabi
• Hip hop
• Trap
• Dubstep
• House
• Pop Music
• Reggae
• EDM (Electronic Dance Music)
• Orchestra
• Chill Out
• Big Room

Projects

• Mixing a Track
• Full Track With Vocal and instrument done by students
• Master a Full Track