MPA 408 Lecture 03/10/10 Reviewing Our Presentations

Today's class was devoted to beefing up our upcoming presentation and preparing for the midterm. We took time to review each persons current progress and (to give and receive) advice on what direction we should head into. After a quick review of my paper I was told that i should spend a little more time on highlighting key artist (namely The Rolling Stones) and also to explore the bigger picture of exploitation that was going on. Once the Q&A portion was complete we went over the midterm. Based on the information we we're given the midterm is said to cover: Reverse and natural reverb, applying gates, eq's and comprehension of the out board gear in the studio. The most important lesson on display today came when trying to place vibrato on a demo audio track. It seems the person at the helms had placed the exact dimension that we had got from a previous lecture however, Dr. Waters emphasized the point that those were simply dimensions similar to presets and that we our selves should be that barometer for whether an effect is evident or not.