Course Description
Modern audio production involves an ever-expanding set of specialized tools. Each year, there are the number of applications using audio increases. Recently, audio has moved from analog recording to totally digital recording using computers. This course provides a brief overview of audio and its production.
Course Objectives
- Learning how sound waves work
- Discussing audio signal processing
- Addressing harmonic distortion in Audio Amplifier
- Exploring the types and functions of audio filters
- Understanding the basic concepts of Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Who Should Attend?
- Audio engineering
- Technicians
- Anyone who is involved in audio processing field
Course Details/Schedule
- Introduction of Audio
- Sound waves
- Electronic version
- The audible range
- What does sound consists of?
- Amplifiers
- Sources of undesired Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)
- Output (crossover) distortion
- Amplifier distortion
- Harmonic distortion
- Intermodulation distortion
- Audio signal processing
- Analog vs. digital formats
- Specialized recording equipment
- Frequency Modulation (FM)
- FM spectrum
- FM performance
- An introduction to filters
- Some key points and terms
- Tone control
- Major types of filters
- Pass filters and distance
- Low pass filter
- High pass filter
- Band pass filter
- Passive and active filters
- Digital signal processing (DSP)
- DSP’s components
- Choosing the right digital signal processor
- Implement algorithms on a hardware platform
- Programming considerations for real-time I/O
