SECONDARY SCHOOL · TEACHER-SELECTED DAW
Audio Engineering & Recording II
By Mike Lawson · artistproMedia
Professional concepts, secondary-school pedagogy. Learn, hear, do, submit and check using a teacher-selected DAW. 45 planned classroom hours, adjustable for access and revision.
72 tasks plus a final portfolio review.
What you will learn
- Frequency, Level and Listening Judgment
- Stereo Microphones and Phase Relationships
- Acoustics, Noise and Advanced Gain Structure
- Multitrack Capture and Session Integrity
- Hear It. Fix It. Prove It.
- Compression by Source
- Gates, Expanders and Detector Decisions
- Reverb and Delay Acoustics
- Checkpoint: Diagnose an Unfamiliar Session
- Buses, Auxes and Parallel Processing
- Automation and Mix Architecture
- Engineering Case Studies
- Monitoring, References and Translation
- Mastering Fundamentals and Specifications
- Troubleshoot the Whole Studio
- Capstone: Engineer the Record
- Capstone: Revise with Evidence
- Capstone: Handoff and Portfolio
- Final portfolio
Preview: Find the frequency region
Use frequency references to improve a bounded listening judgment.
Learn
Advanced listening starts with a specific question. Compare broad frequency references, then return to a musical phrase and identify a region that seems dominant or obscured. Avoid sweeping a loud sine tone or boosting sharply to hunt for an answer. Listen at a comfortable level and state uncertainty. A region estimate is often more useful than a falsely precise frequency label.
Hear
Hear 150,1000 and 4000 Hz references, then the supplied phrase.
Do
Label the three reference regions.
Listen to the phrase and name one region of interest.
Test a small broad EQ change on a copy where supported.
Record whether the observation survives a context comparison.
Evidence
Reference labels and one bounded diagnostic test.
Full lessons, listening files and downloads require enrollment. Answer keys require separately approved instructor access. Completion is based on reviewed work; certificates are not issued automatically.
District adoption and standards
This program provides explicit learning objectives, required evidence, assessment criteria and portfolio review. Each student task is mapped in the district crosswalk. Student and educator standards are reported separately, and local authorities retain decisions about course credit, CTE coding and professional-learning recognition.
View the district adoption guide · Download the lesson-level standards crosswalk