For most careers, sound is used as a medium for communicating thoughts, ideas, and important information. For this very reason, it is unlikely that you would ever see an office space with tall ceilings and hardwood floor—as people would be unable to clearly communicate with each other due to the echoic effects of the architectural structure. Instead, office spaces have relatively low ceilings and carpeted floor to reduce the number of reflections from a sound source. This allows our voices to be heard clearly for the intended audience—whether a cubicle neighbor, or a group of people in a conference room. However, a large number of industrial workplaces produce sound pollution as a result of machinery. For these particular environments, sound absorption and isolation techniques are used to reduce noise pollution and create safer aural environments for employees. With this concept of utilizing sound and disposing sound, we can take a closer look at a career in music production—a job that meticulously considers every aspect of sound. While the engineers that produce ‘billboard albums’ rely greatly on their choice of equipment and their ears, the environment in which they record, mix and master plays a tremendous role in the clarity and the overall soundscape.
Nowadays, it is not uncommon for sound engineers to have home studios—in fact, many contemporary studios operate from within the engineer’s home because it is convenient, relatively affordable, and can produce results comparable to a studio that was constructed for the very purpose of music. Most recording studios consist of a control room, the live studio performance area, and a smaller booth where vocals are most often recorded (“Design Considerations”). However, the shape o...
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...e for recording vocals and instruments. While most rooms in a home are not ideal for recording, at first, some careful planning can go a long way in making a simple bedroom or office room into a control room, or making a small closet space into your very own sound isolation booth. With a little time, your home can become your dream workplace.
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For this assignment, I chose to interview JL Audio cofounder Lucio Proni. JL Audio is a consumer/professional audio manufacturer located in Miramar, Florida that produces speakers for boats, cars, and home sound systems. Lucio Proni is an engineer and cofounder of the company with his high school buddy Jim Birch. During the mid-1970’s when they were on their summer break from the University of Florida, Lucio and Jim decided to mess around with component speakers and wound up building home loudspeakers for fun. They worked out of a garage in Lucios home and showed some of their speakers to their friends and some. Later on, a few of them even bought some, so they built a couple more to sell on the flea market. Lucio’s early success inspired
Steven Connor delves into the mixing and creating of sound by computerisation, as well as the habits of sound; it’s immersion, pathos and objectivity.
For example, music is becoming more widely available to the general public with the introduction of mp3 players and the growth of the online music industry. The essay is concluded with my personal feelings towards the use of electronic technology within the live music industry, as well as the recording studio environment. This conclusion reveals that while the use of electronic technology has become crucial in the modern music market, it should not detract from the quality of live music produced. In this way, I feel that the use of electronic technology – namely drum machines and computerised backing tracks – have had a negative effect on the live music industry, because the majority of artists within the ‘pop’ genre now use computer-generated backing for live performances.
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Jumping in to starting a business can be scary and investing in a home recording studio is no exception. There are many things to consider when doing so. How much will it cost? What gear will I need? What recording jobs will I take on? What will I charge? How will I network and advertise? I believe that I can open a profitable home studio for $10,000 mixed with my skills and gear that I already have.
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To construct a sitcom, like Home Improvement, there are certain media concepts that the show must take into consideration before building a set, and script. The medium that is chosen determines the format of the text, money limits construction, and the audience limits construction, as well as the lifestyles, and values of the audience. The writers of the show have to determine what dialogue is used in the script, for example the language and word choice that is used. The script also includes choosing a plot, setting, character’s, and narrator’s. To add to this list, the show could not be made possible without a recording environment, such as cameras, a studio to work in, lighting, sound effects, props, costumes, equipment for colouring, and fonts for messages.
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