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.
- 3: Sound Localization, Pitch, Timbre, and Loudness / Psychophysical Methods How hearing actually works: localization, pitch, timbre and loudness as perceptual quantities 39 min Attended
- The Science of Sound in Film — Film Sound Recording for Beginners Sound as a physical signal, and the vocabulary of the production sound department 15 min Attended
- Recording Sound for Film — How to Get Pristine Audio for Film Capturing it: microphone choice and placement, interiors versus exteriors 15 min Attended
- 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 68 min Attended
- Post Production Sound for Film — How to Make Your Movie Sound Great Fixing and finishing: EQ, compression, noise, effects, music, and the mix 25 min Attended
- 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 17 min Attended
- 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 11 min Attended
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.