Studio Gear

Goals

• Reinforce the information you learned last week by reviewing the material and seeking out enrichment material.
  
  
• Be familiar with the brands of preamps, dynamics processors, channel strips, EQ, reverb, multi-effects, monitors, heaphones, field and hand held recorders

Study

• Start with the theory lesson for this week.
  
  
• Read pp. 335–403 in the ProGear guide twice, including a review of the pages on mic preamps from last week (pp. 265–334).
  
  
• Look up any terminology you don't understand in the Sweetwater Glossary. Grow your collection of flash cards.
  
  
• Seek out magazine reviews, YouTube videos, forums, and other websites with information about the material in this section of the ProGear guide. Add any links that you think are interesting to our shared Supplemental Resources page. The title there is for MMP280, that is the long term number for the class. The point of this page is to share leads with your virtual study group.
  
  
• Read the buying guides:
  • 500 series modules
  • studio monitors
  • headphones
  • Sennheiser headphones
  • handheld recorders
    
    
• Look for other sources of information on the Internet. The more angles you look at the information and connections you make with your own interests, the quicker and deeper you'll gain knowledge.
  • Add links to sites you find helpful to on our Supplemental Resources page for products covered this week that you think would be interested in and benefit from. Type in text describing what can be found, select the appropriate text, and then click on the INSERT LINK icon and paste in the URL. This will turn your text into a link that others can click on.

Assignment

• Write up a case study for three companies, one producing products in each of these three areas:
  
  1) dynamics processors, 500 sries modules, Rupert Neve Shelford modules, cahnnel strips, EQ, reverb, multi-effects
  2) summing mixer, control, monitor management, studio monitors, headphones, headphones amps, patch bays
  3) rackmount recorders and players, field recorders, handheld recorders, video production
  
  
• Do the assignment rating yourself on different skills that are useful in customer service work (1 point)

Imagine you are preparing for a job interview where you think you might be asked about your experiences in customer service, where you are strongest, and where you need to grow.

1. What jobs or other experiences have you had where you had the opportunity to service customers or other people?
   
   
2. Rate yourself on the 15 qualities that help in customer service jobs.
   
   
3. Reorder the list putting the qualities you are strongest at at the top, and the weakest at the bottom. For the ones at the top of the list that are your strong points, give some of the details of an experience for each that you've had that demonstrates your ability. For the ones at the bottom that you are weaker at, provide some of the details of an experience for each that you've had that didn't go as well as it could have, and what you could do in the future to improve in that area.

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