MIM-153 Critical Listening

Prerequisites: High School

This course focuses on developing critical listening skills with particular emphasis on engineering analysis. Topics include psychoacoustics of various audio environments, critical listening and the identification of engineering techniques such as balance, panning, EQ, reverb, compression, delay, and time-based effects, instrument identification and song structure and terminology. Students will build their critical listening skills using recorded Music from studio sessions, live concert material, and audio postproduction mixes from a variety of mixing techniques and producers.