Caroline Bokman — San Francisco Recording Connection

Chapter 12- Mix Theory - Posted by Caroline Bokman on 2016-08-25

Really getting to the heart of that matter now. If you have 200 guitar takes, and 3 drummers and a horn section.... and maybe a choir, how on earth do you wrangle it so doesn't overwhelm the ears? How can you make certain things shine, even focus or blend? What are all the tools we have? How do we use them? What the the usual things people who mix do? What are the creative things people have come up with? So it begins... Read More >>

Chapter 10- Plugins - Posted by Caroline Bokman on 2016-08-18

This week, we did an over view of all the plugins, and formats they come in, what is supported in ProTools, and what is no longer supported in the latest versions... Read More >>

Chapter 9- Basic overview edit mode buttons in Protools - Posted by Caroline Bokman on 2016-06-06

This week is the basics. What are all the buttons and what do they do? Also: Memorize the key commands, that make fast access to them all... Read More >>

Chapter 8- Pro Tools! - Posted by Caroline Bokman on 2016-06-04

Week 8 has us open ProTools! went over many of the buttons, will take time to remember them all and think of what to use on the fly... Read More >>

The plot thickens... - Posted by Caroline Bokman on 2016-05-21

This week we are covering studio plots/ planning/ prep for a session/ tracking. As with anything, lots of careful setup will make things go smoothy, and the more people/ instruments you deal with, the more can go wrong, and the more planning is necessary to make things go smoothly... Read More >>

Mic placement- Chapt 6 - Posted by Caroline Bokman on 2016-05-17

What kind of mics are good and in what configuration is covered in this chapter. In the studio, we placed mics around the room, and close on a snare drum... Read More >>

So many mics - Posted by Caroline Bokman on 2016-05-09

This chapter was all about microphones, from carbon to condenser to dynamic to ribbon. How they work, what they sound like, when to use them... Read More >>

Connections - Posted by Caroline Bokman on 2016-05-04

Fairly straightforward chapter/ class on all the different types of analog and digital cables and their connector ends... Read More >>

Chapter/ Class 3 Audio Engineering - Posted by Caroline Bokman on 2016-04-28

This weeks' chapter went over digital sampling. Sample rate, bit depth, the algorithyms that smooth the wave form representations, etc... Read More >>

Week two was ELECTRIC - Posted by Caroline Bokman on 2016-04-25

The book had a small chapter about electronics only 15 pages long- hz, khz, volts, amps, resistors etc. I thought the class would be short!   In the classroom we went over WAY more! Cables- balanced vs unbalances, speaker cables, trs cables, XLR cables, ground, sheild, electric / magnetic fields, line levels, (vocal, instrument, commercial line level, line level, and monitor level),  We looked at all the configurations, and unscrewed the cable ends to see how many wires and how they were set up inside the cable (!)    Then we went over... Read More >>