[Coursera] Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics [2013, ENG] 

[Coursera] Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics [2013, ENG]

Год выпуска: 2013
Производитель: Coursera
Сайт производителя: www.coursera.org/#course/audiomusicengpart1
Автор: Robert Clark, Mark Bocko
Продолжительность: 10:02:30
Тип раздаваемого материала: Видеоурок
Язык: Английский
Размер:  1.3 GB

Это шестинедельный курс для студентов, которые заинтересованы в изучении основных понятий звука и акустики, а также электрических сигналов и как они относятся к музыке. Цель для студентов, понять основные концепции и принципы музыкальной акустики и электроники и изучить оборудование, такое как электрические гитары, усилители и громкоговорители и как они работают.

Содержание:

Week 1
Lesson 1: Introduction to oscillations and sound waves, simple oscillating systems, sound pressure, sound waves, the speed of sound, wavelength, frequency and pitch, sound pressure level, loudness, making sound, properties of musical sound versus "noise”
Lesson 2: Electronics fundamentals - charge, current, voltage, power, resistance, Ohm’s law, DC circuits, finding currents and voltages in simple circuits
Week 2
Lesson 1: Reflection and absorption of sound, resonances in air columns, resonances in enclosures and rooms, diffraction and diffusion of sound, reverberation, principles of designing a good music studio
Lesson 2: AC signals, phase and complex numbers, capacitors, inductors, transformers, impedance, AC circuits and AC circuit analysis, simple filters (high-pass, low-pass, band-pass)
Week 3
Lesson 1: Transistors, vacuum tubes, opamps, amplification, power gain, single-stage amplifiers
Lesson 2: Converting sound to electrical signals –microphones and guitar pickups, converting electrical signals to sound – loudspeakers
Week 4
Lesson 1: Electric guitar electronics, pickup design, pickup placement and tone, volume control circuits, tone control circuits
Lesson 2: Overview of a simple guitar amplifier, power supply, volume control, preamp, tone control, power amp section
Week 5
Lesson 1: Designing speaker enclosures, basic principles, interaction of speaker driver with the cabinet, why a cabinet at all?
Lesson 2: Speaker designs for home stereo, crossover networks, guitar amplifier (open) speaker enclosures, bass amplifier (closed and vented) speaker enclosures
Week 6
Lesson 1: Building the guitar amplifier, how to solder, getting the amp to work - systematic testing and troubleshooting
Lesson 2: Visualizing sound waves, frequency content and tone, signal modification in electro-acoustic systems, tube amplifiers and distortion, wah pedal, talk box