Scene Techniques – Sound

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

The teaching methodology will be based on a practical experience of various contents, knowledge will be acquired and the starting point of a set of tasks/projects proposed to students, which will allow achieving the knowledge exposed previously in class. It is intended in this way to strengthen not only the knowledge and decision-making ability, but also the autonomy of operation with audio capabilities. For this reason the evaluation will be carried out based on the set of the proposed works, which determine the simple average, and that will be worth 80% of the final mark, with the remaining 20% attributable to punctuality, assiduity, autonomy, quality of performance.

Continuous Assessment:
Classes participation: 20%
Set of tasks according to the Class curriculum: 80%

Exam:
One-Off Exam 100%

Learning Results

This course aims to provide students a set of highly technical knowledge and skills to enable them to identify and meet the needs of basic audio theatre show or similar. The students will be able to comply with the requirements, procedures and techniques to be carried out for the good performance of the work to be carried out in the scene, or as your support. Should the students be able at the end of the semester to assemble and put a simple capture system, set up and operate a simple playback/recording system, as well as edit and produce simple audio content using the appropriate tools.

Program

1. Audio Basic principles:
a. electrical signal;
b. audio signal;
c. sound System: components, function and operation criteria;
d. link criteria: cables and terminals (TS, TRS, RCA, XLR);
e. balanced and unbalanced signal;
f. sound stage.
2. Audio capture:
a. microphones: types and operating principle;
b. polarity diagrams;
c. pontual and stereo techniques.
3. Mixing and effects:
a. the sound mixing: Mixer: fade in and fade out;
b. basic principles of mixing;
c. dynamic treatment: equalization and dynamic compression;
d. effects: reverb, delay and modulation effects.
4. Audio Editing: DAW concept and its operation:
a. the Digital Audio Workstation as a basis of work;
b. setting/environment recording DAW;
c. brief introduction to digital audio: sample rate, resolution;
d. basic criteria of Nondestructive editing

Curricular Unit Teachers

Grading Methods

Continuing evaluation
  • - Attendance and Participation - 20.0%
  • - Individual and/or Group Work - 80.0%
Exam
  • - Exam - 100.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

BIEDERMAN, Raven; PATTISON, Penny , Basic Live Sound Reinforcement: A Practical Guide for Starting Live Audio, Nova Iorque, Londres, Focal Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-240-82101-6

BRICE, Richard; DAVIS, D.; DUNCAN, B.; HOOD, J. Linsley; …, Audio Engineering: Know It All, Oxford, Elsevier, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-85617-526-5

FONSECA, Nuno, Introdução à Engenharia de som, (6a ed.), Edições FCA, 2012, ISBN:978-972-722-728-0

HUBER, David M.; RUNSTEIN, Robert E. Modern Recording Techniques, (8a ed.), Nova Iorque, Focal Press, 2013

KAYE, Deena; LeBrecht, Sound and Music for the Theatre (4a ed.), Nova Iorque, Focal Press, 2016, ISBN9781315776477

MARQUES, Miguel Pinheiro, Sistemas e Técnicas de Produção Áudio, Edições FCA, 2014, ISBN 978-972-722-764-8

RAYBUM, Ray A., Eargles’s The Microfone Book: From Mono to Stereo to Surround – A Guide to Microfone Design and Application, (3a ed.), Nova Iorque, Londres, Focal Press, 2011, ISBN978-0240820750