{ "id": "shaping-multitrack-recording", "title": "Shaping Your Sound with Multitrack Recording", "course_url": "/learn/courses/shaping-multitrack-recording.html", "audience": "advanced", "lesson_count": 8, "mapped_checkpoint_count": 8, "rows": [ { "id": "multitrack-recording-1", "lesson_number": 1, "title": "1. Plan the performance and track layout", "assignment": "Write an arrangement brief and an overdub order for a short song section. Create a source/input/route/destination list. Identify one guide part and one later part that depends on it. Reserve recovery versions and decide which sources must stay independent.", "practice_steps": [], "evidence_requirement": "Keep the plan in a digital document. Include the intended result, resources, timing and a response to one likely change.", "standards": [ "plan" ], "assessment_criteria": [ "Use a digital plan to connect the intended result to available time, equipment, people and a workable fallback." ], "assessed_focus": "Use a digital plan to connect the intended result to available time, equipment, people and a workable fallback.", "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope." }, { "id": "multitrack-recording-2", "lesson_number": 2, "title": "2. Understand the recorder and monitoring modes", "assignment": "Download shaping-recording-practice.apstudio from the course overview. In apStudio choose SESSION / FILES → Open and select that file. Confirm Drums take 1 uses Bus 1–2 and Bass overdub uses Bus 3. Their initial destination timelines are empty; the prerecorded source excerpts are in the buses. Identify a prerecorded source bus and the separate physical-input option. Explain the difference between input, arm, transport Record and monitoring.", "practice_steps": [], "evidence_requirement": "Demonstrate the operation yourself where equipment is available. Identify the controls used and verify the result; keep proposed operations separate from completed demonstrations.", "standards": [ "tech" ], "assessment_criteria": [ "Demonstrate the relevant controls or file operations and explain what changes at the input and output." ], "assessed_focus": "Demonstrate the relevant controls or file operations and explain what changes at the input and output.", "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope." }, { "id": "multitrack-recording-3", "lesson_number": 3, "title": "3. Set record gain and performer monitoring", "assignment": "Select the intended destination input and leave unrelated tracks disarmed. Play a known strong source passage and identify recording versus playback meters. Adjust listening level without assuming it changes record gain. For physical work, capture and replay a short test before committing to a take.", "practice_steps": [], "evidence_requirement": "Demonstrate the operation yourself where equipment is available. Identify the controls used and verify the result; keep proposed operations separate from completed demonstrations.", "standards": [ "tech" ], "assessment_criteria": [ "Demonstrate the relevant controls or file operations and explain what changes at the input and output." ], "assessed_focus": "Demonstrate the relevant controls or file operations and explain what changes at the input and output.", "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope." }, { "id": "multitrack-recording-4", "lesson_number": 4, "title": "4. Record and keep the foundation", "assignment": "Choose a short supplied bus interval and an intended destination. Record the interval and inspect the resulting region and input identity. Replay the start and end, then retain and name the first take. Record the second take onto a new track. Keep the first take so you can compare them.", "practice_steps": [], "evidence_requirement": "Demonstrate the operation yourself where equipment is available. Identify the controls used and verify the result; keep proposed operations separate from completed demonstrations.", "standards": [ "tech" ], "assessment_criteria": [ "Demonstrate the relevant controls or file operations and explain what changes at the input and output." ], "assessed_focus": "Demonstrate the relevant controls or file operations and explain what changes at the input and output.", "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope." }, { "id": "multitrack-recording-5", "lesson_number": 5, "title": "5. Overdub with a deliberate listening plan", "assignment": "Add a supplied bus part or a new performance alongside the foundation. Confirm only the intended new destination is armed. Replay the combined result and record one musical observation. Plan a punch interval with lead-in and lead-out; perform it only after verifying the available controls and preserving the original.", "practice_steps": [], "evidence_requirement": "Demonstrate the operation yourself where equipment is available. Identify the controls used and verify the result; keep proposed operations separate from completed demonstrations.", "standards": [ "tech" ], "assessment_criteria": [ "Demonstrate the relevant controls or file operations and explain what changes at the input and output." ], "assessed_focus": "Demonstrate the relevant controls or file operations and explain what changes at the input and output.", "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope." }, { "id": "multitrack-recording-6", "lesson_number": 6, "title": "6. Bounce deliberately and preserve options", "assignment": "Plan a submix from two or more parts and list the decisions it would commit. Save a checkpoint and identify which independent sources will remain. If rendering the submix, verify its route and range, then compare it with the original combination. Document whether processing and tails are included.", "practice_steps": [], "evidence_requirement": "List the working files and their purposes. Reopen the saved or transferred copy and record the playback result.", "standards": [ "archive" ], "assessment_criteria": [ "Identify each file’s purpose, preserve the source material and verify that the transferred or reopened project works." ], "assessed_focus": "Identify each file’s purpose, preserve the source material and verify that the transferred or reopened project works.", "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope." }, { "id": "multitrack-recording-7", "lesson_number": 7, "title": "7. Edit the sound, not just the grid", "assignment": "Choose one boundary with audible material on both sides. Save the original and make a small reversible edit. Compare the join in isolation and in the full phrase. Record one rejected edit and identify how to restore the original.", "practice_steps": [], "evidence_requirement": "Keep the original and edited versions. Identify the changed passage and audition its entrance, join and ending.", "standards": [ "edit" ], "assessment_criteria": [ "Retain the source, make the intended edit, and audition the boundaries and the finished passage." ], "assessed_focus": "Retain the source, make the intended edit, and audition the boundaries and the finished passage.", "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope." }, { "id": "multitrack-recording-8", "lesson_number": 8, "title": "8. Organize, reopen and hand off the session", "assignment": "Save and reopen the project; verify track names, regions, inputs and source availability. Replay the foundation and added layer. Keep a reference export plus take/track/edit notes. Submit the session, reference mix, and recording notes. Identify any work still needed before delivery.", "practice_steps": [], "evidence_requirement": "List the working files and their purposes. Reopen the saved or transferred copy and record the playback result.", "standards": [ "archive" ], "assessment_criteria": [ "Identify each file’s purpose, preserve the source material and verify that the transferred or reopened project works." ], "assessed_focus": "Identify each file’s purpose, preserve the source material and verify that the transferred or reopened project works.", "alignment_scope": "The named work assesses this part of the standard; consult the official source for its complete scope." } ], "teacher_assessment": { "instructions": "Assess the work named in each row. Record the file or portfolio entry, the criterion, the result and the next action. Use a practical observation for equipment operation. Give feedback on the learner’s decisions as well as the finished result.", "levels": { "3": "Criterion met, with independent verification or a successful application in another situation.", "2": "Criterion met: the required work is complete, accurate and supported by evidence.", "1": "Some relevant work is present, but the intended result has not been demonstrated.", "0": "The required evidence has not been submitted or demonstrated." }, "self_guided": "Read the evidence requirement before starting. Save the work, check each criterion and revise any missing or unsuccessful part. Use a peer or instructor for tasks that require feedback or a witnessed practical demonstration." }, "teacher_practice": [ { "standard": "teach", "task": "Prepare and teach “1. Plan the performance and track layout.” Demonstrate the task, then have learners complete it independently.", "evidence": "A teaching plan, demonstration or teach-back, and learner work showing the result.", "criterion": "State the learning objective, teach a workable activity and show how the resulting student work demonstrates the objective." }, { "standard": "adapt", "task": "Adapt one practical assignment for a learner with limited equipment, a different way of accessing instructions, or a different way of presenting the result.", "evidence": "The original task, the adapted route and the shared assessment criteria.", "criterion": "Name a specific access or learning need and provide a usable alternative that preserves the intended skill." }, { "standard": "assess", "task": "Use “8. Organize, reopen and hand off the session” to assess the learner’s decisions and finished work. Plan feedback and a second attempt for one unmet criterion.", "evidence": "An annotated rubric, specific feedback, revised work and a brief comparison.", "criterion": "Score the work against stated criteria, identify the misconception and provide feedback and a suitable next activity." } ], "readiness": { "pathway": "build", "fit": "About 15–18 after a basic recording project.", "prioritySkills": "Track preparation; overdubbing; session integrity; recoverable handoff.", "priorSkills": "Can record and reopen one track and identify the original audio files.", "equipment": "DAW, headphones, supplied multitrack session; interface and microphone for capture work.", "expectedTime": "Plan 8–12 hours for eight lessons and labs.", "teacherGuidance": "Teacher recommended; witnessed capture is required when that skill is assessed.", "educationTitle": "Shaping Your Sound with Multitrack Recording — Recording Elective", "teacherEditionUrl": "/learn/access.php?resource=teaching/shaping-multitrack-recording/teacher.html" } }