Learning by Ear: Creating Sound without Fury

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Learning by Ear Creating Sound without Fury
Mary Ellen Bornak bornakm_at_bucks.edu John
Sheridan sheridaj_at_bucks.edu
Bucks County Community College Newtown, PA
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Sounding Us Out

• Johns a jazz guitar

Mary Ellens a beach
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Discussion Sound Bites

• Sound and cognition
• Sound and learning
• Instructional design
• Digital sound
• Sound Production
• Sound Workstation

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Dual Cognitive Processing

• Multiple input
• Visual, auditory
• Multiple process
• Eye, ear
• Multiple paths

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Dual Process Learning

• Single Memory Process
• Visual working memory
• (Animation and text)
• Dual Memory Process
• Visual plus auditory memory
• (Animation, text, and sound)
• Result Out-Performance
• Retention, recognition, transfer

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Audio Listening Skills

• Listening skills help students
• Identify main ideas
• Recall details
• Sequence events
• Draw conclusions
• Identify perspectives
• Predict outcomes

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Auditory Stimulation

• Transfers to reading skills
• Results in more reflection
• Utilizes familiar brain paths

Captures imagination, drama,
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Audio Demonstrations

• Renowned speakers, leaders model
• Oral clarity, style, coherence, expression,
• rhetorical devices, strategies

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Instructional Strategies

• Real life aspect
• News broadcasts, interviews
• Instruction
• Explain assignments
• Teacher presence
• Penns Prof. Bill Berner
• demonstrates expertise
• http//mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu8080/ramgen
  /physics_lab/real/reflectionrefraction.rm

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Instructional Strategies

• Memory Aid
• Rhythm and sound
• Photo, text and sound
• Language class
• Storytelling
• Effective teaching
• Experiential literature
• Richness of web
• Culture, language

http//wiredforbooks.org/carol/ http//wiredforboo
ks.org/macbeth/
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Spinal Cord Protection
Audio Teacher Presence
By the vertebral column, meninges, cerebrospinal
fluid, and vertebral ligaments.
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Adding Narration to Slides

• Merlot Charles Ansorge LTA

PowerPoint Tutorials
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Portable Station Decisions

• High-end
• ProTools
• MBox
• Low-end
• FreeTools
• No XP version
• Windows Recorder
• IPod
• Audacity

Considerations Platform PC, Mac Web File
format Capture Compression
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High-End Hardware Setup

• Computer
• MBox
• Condenser mic
• Low-impedence mic cable (2)

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Add-On Equipment

• Portable mic stand
• Gooseneck mic holder
• Headphones

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Mic Choice Key to Quality Sound
Handheld mics, Imic and Lavelier
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Software Choices

• Sound recording
• ProTools
• Windows Recorder (free)
• Audacity (free)
• Sound editing
• ProTools
• Audacity (free)
• File conversion
• ProTools
• Jukebox (free)

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Free Recording Software

• Windows Sound Recorder

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Basic Mic, Free Recorder

• Sound Recorder

Mic basics Quality Position
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Hardware Ready to Record

• Laptop
• MBox
• Mic
• Mic Stand
• Cables
• Headphones

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On Call Our Portable Studio

• 1. Request
• 2. Script assured
• 3. In-office setup

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Script Is ReadyNow

• Start with clean sound environment
• Survey office noise
• Heater
• Air Conditioner
• Telephone
• Hallway noise
• Interruptions

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Prepare for the Worst

• Unexpected Noise
• Grass blowing outside the window
• Security guards squawking radio
• Bad Takes
• Dont stand on the cables
• Plan for Retakes

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Checklist Reminders

• Set headphone volume
• Set mic level
• Highest without clipping
• Loudest passage
• Record a take
• Dont rush
• Affects quality
• Talent performance
• Playback
• Check for clean signal
• Do Multiple takes

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Working with Pro Tools

• Copy and paste
• Editing Fades (in, out, cross)
• Repair wave form

Mixing Effects, equalization
Compression Volume
peaks Reverb Dialogue depth
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Mixing/Final Outputin Pro Tools

• Automation
• Mix
• Mute
• Effects
• Set Output Levels
• Final Mix Down

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Audio Mastering Data

• File format
• AIFF, Wav, MP3 or real audio?
• Sampling rate
• 44.1 kHz for CD quality
• Bit depth
• 16-bit depth for CD quality
• Bounce to disk
• Mono
• Stereo

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From .wav to .mp3

• Jukebox File Converter Interface

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Show Time

• Walts Welcome Page

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Putting Heads Together To Take Home Ideas

• Share successful uses
• Ideas to cut costs
• Embed or stream?
• Equipment high-end, low-end
• References and tutorials
• Any software/recommendations