Faculty of Education and Arts

School: WA Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Sound Mastering
  • Unit Code

    MUS3608
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

In this unit students will be required to demonstrate a practical knowledge of mastering practice utilising high-end hardware and software tools. This will provide students with the skills necessary for finalising their CD for playback on various systems, and the formats required for CD manufacture. The unit will involve the theory of psychoacoustics as applied to the use of metering, equalisation, dynamics, harmonic enhancement, imaging, and spectral editing (audio restoration).

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply basic knowledge of conventional studio mastering practice.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the practice of CD manufacture.
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of the psychoacoustics implications of metering, equalisation, dynamics, harmonic enhancement, imaging, and spectral editing (audio restoration).
  4. Demonstrate skills in an industry standard DAW.

Unit Content

  1. Psychoacoustic issues applied to equalisation and dynamics.
  2. Sound mastering techniques.
  3. The CD manufacturing process.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and workshops.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseExercises30%
ProjectMixing project70%

Text References

  • ^ Katz, B. (2007). Mastering audio: The art and the science.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: WA Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Sound Mastering
  • Unit Code

    MUS3608
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

In this unit students will be required to demonstrate a practical knowledge of mastering practice utilising high-end hardware and software tools. This will provide students with the skills necessary for finalising their CD for playback on various systems, and the formats required for CD manufacture. The unit will involve the theory of psychoacoustics as applied to the use of metering, equalisation, dynamics, harmonic enhancement, imaging, and spectral editing (audio restoration).

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply basic knowledge of conventional studio mastering practice.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the practice of CD manufacture.
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of the psychoacoustics implications of metering, equalisation, dynamics, harmonic enhancement, imaging, and spectral editing (audio restoration).
  4. Demonstrate skills in an industry standard DAW.

Unit Content

  1. Psychoacoustic issues applied to equalisation and dynamics.
  2. Sound mastering techniques.
  3. The CD manufacturing process.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and workshops.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseExercises30%
ProjectMixing project70%

Text References

  • ^ Katz, B. (2007). Mastering audio: The art and the science.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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