Content Creation University
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PRO-103 Common core Year One Production Craft

Audio Fundamentals

Microphones, room treatment, levels. Why viewers forgive bad video but never bad audio.

Lectures
7
Total runtime
3h 10m
Attendance minimum
1h 35m
Prerequisites
None

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. 3: Sound Localization, Pitch, Timbre, and Loudness / Psychophysical Methods How hearing actually works: localization, pitch, timbre and loudness as perceptual quantities MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 39 min
  2. The Science of Sound in Film — Film Sound Recording for Beginners Sound as a physical signal, and the vocabulary of the production sound department StudioBinder 4 Educational 15 min
  3. Recording Sound for Film — How to Get Pristine Audio for Film Capturing it: microphone choice and placement, interiors versus exteriors StudioBinder 4 Educational 15 min
  4. LIVE Workshop: Audio Tips and Tricks to Sound Great From Home The creator's real problem: a normal room, a budget mic, and no crew YouTube Creators 3 Platform official 68 min
  5. Post Production Sound for Film — How to Make Your Movie Sound Great Fixing and finishing: EQ, compression, noise, effects, music, and the mix StudioBinder 4 Educational 25 min
  6. Ultimate Guide to Diegetic vs Non-Diegetic Sound — Definitions, Examples, & How to Break the Rules Sound as storytelling: what belongs to the world on screen and what doesn't StudioBinder 4 Educational 17 min
  7. Practicum · working creator 10 Tips for Better Sounding Vocal Recordings for Beginners (FAQ Series) Eleven things a working podcaster does at his own desk before he touches a plugin: Lecture 3's proximity rule, Lecture 4's untreated room, and Lecture 2's signal-to-noise turned into physical actions that cost nothing Podcastage P Practitioner 11 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Podcastage — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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