Studio Recording Technology

SRT 101 - Music Business I

Corequisites: SRT 103 and SRT 105.

Description: Survey of music business practices and music industry markets. Topics include publishing, copyright, sample clearance, performance licensing and management. Limited to Studio Recording Technology Certificate students. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-HUM Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 3
Department: Art

SRT 102 - Music Business II

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C in SRT 101.

Corequisites: SRT 104 and SRT 106.

Description: Survey of music business practices focusing on recording contracts and career planning. Limited to Studio Recording Technology Certificate students. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-HUM Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 3
Department: Art

SRT 103 - Music Theory I

Corequisites: SRT 101 and SRT 105.

Description: Survey of music theory practices and applications. Rudiments of music, including notation, rhythm, scales, intervals and triads. Limited to Studio Recording Technology Certificate students. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-FAPA Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 3
Department: Art

SRT 104 - Music Theory II

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C in SRT 103.

Corequisites: SRT 102 and SRT 106.

Description: Survey of music theory practices and commercial music applications. Specific study of commercial music formats and language. Limited to Studio Recording Technology Certificate students. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-FAPA Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 3
Department: Art

SRT 105 - Basic Studio Techniques

Corequisites: SRT 101 and SRT 103.

Description: Survey of equipment and procedures in sound recording. Basic electronic and acoustical principles, system signal flow, mixing consoles, equalizers, compressors/limiters and microphone design and application. Limited to Studio Recording Technology students. Classes meet both on campus and at an off campus professional studio. Students must provide their own transportation. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-FAPA Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 6
Department: Art

SRT 106 - Advanced Studio Techniques

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C in SRT 105.

Corequisites: SRT 102 and SRT 104.

Description: Continuation of the study of studio procedures, with emphasis on digital audio workstations (ProTools), virtual instruments, analog/digital signal processors, automated mixing techniques for stereo and surround formats. Limited to Studio Recording Technology students. Classes meet both on campus and at an off campus professional studio. Students must provide their own transportation. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-FAPA Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 6
Department: Art

SRT 107 - Studio Internship

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C in SRT 106.

Description: Field experience internship program where students are placed as apprentice technicians in professional recording studios. Faculty field supervision at off-campus location. Students must provide their own transportation. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-FAPA Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 6
Department: Art

SRT 115 - Recording Session Techniques

Description: Students will participate in live music-recording sessions. Each session will focus on a new specific skill set while continuing to rehearse basic setups and procedures. In addition to "hands-on" participation during the studio sessions, the students will be required to mix multi-track audio files from these sessions and deliver them electronically. Limited to Sound Recording Technology students. FAPA; NCC GEN ED-HUM Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 3
Department: Art

SRT 205 - Sound Recording Techniques III

Description: An advanced survey of equipment and procedures in sound recording. Advanced microphone placement, equalization, and compression techniques and application, audio and MIDI editing in a digital audio workstation, plug-in/hardware application, synthesizers and drum machines. Limited to Sound Recording Technology needs. FAPA; NCC GEN ED-HUM Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 3
Department: Art

SRT 206 - Sound Recording Techniques IV

Description: Continuation of the study of studio procedures, with emphasis on mixing and mastering techniques and application. Limited to Sound Recording Technology students. FAPA; HUM Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 3
Department: Art

SRT 207 - Sound Reinforcement

Description: An overview of live sound production including the basic principles of live sound reinforcement, the design and functions of a live-audio system, mixing techniques, and acoustics as they pertain to the live sound environment. Limited to Sound Recording Technology students. FAPA; NCC GEN ED-HUM Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 3
Department: Art

SRT 295 - Independent Study-Studio Recording Technology

Description: SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a. Formerly 699. Students who have completed SRT 699 will not receive credit for SRT 295.

Credit Hours: 3
Department: Art