Technical theory

These pages include free overviews / revision summaries for each topic on the course. These are by far sufficient as a starting point or as revision materials.

If you would like to learn about each topic in more detail, I offer premium / paid for courses for each topic from the ‘courses’ page. The modest cost for each course covers the upkeep of this website; the aim is to keep as much free as possible and just cover the annual hosting / WordPress fees!

  1. Properties of sound
  2. Microphones
  3. Cables and connectors
  4. History of recording
  5. Practical considerations for recording
  6. Analogue and digital
  7. Consumer audio formats
  8. Synthesisers
  9. Sampling
  10. Dynamics processing
  11. EQ and filtering
  12. Stereo field
  13. Delay and modulated delay FX
  14. Reverb and acoustics
  15. Distortion FX
  16. Other FX
  17. MIDI
  18. Sequencing and the DAW
  19. Mastering