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The course 'Electronic Audio Processing Techniques I' at the University of Port Harcourt covers the fundamentals of electronic audio technology, including both analogue and digital circuits. Students will learn about electrical quantities, microphone techniques, audio filters, and engage in guided audio processing projects. Assessment consists of attendance, assignments, a written exam, and a project, with a focus on practical applications in audio technology.

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The course 'Electronic Audio Processing Techniques I' at the University of Port Harcourt covers the fundamentals of electronic audio technology, including both analogue and digital circuits. Students will learn about electrical quantities, microphone techniques, audio filters, and engage in guided audio processing projects. Assessment consists of attendance, assignments, a written exam, and a project, with a focus on practical applications in audio technology.

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DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT

ELECTRONIC AUDIO PROCESSING TECHNIQUES I (MUS 237.2)


COURSE OUTLINE

Pre-requisite: MUS 101.1


This course covers the basics of electronic audio technology. It introduces students to analogue
and digital electronic circuits and techniques, and their applications in audio technology. Topics
to be discussed include electricity and electrical quantities, electronic components and their
characteristics, electrical circuits, microphone techniques and sound balancing, audio filters,
electronic noise and distortion, as well as audio storage and transmission media/formats.
Students, in teams, undertake guided audio processing projects.

Course Assessment

1. Attendance and Class Participation – 5%


2. Assignments – 25%
3. Written Exam – 40%
4. Audio Processing Project – 30%

Topics Covered in the Course

1. Fundamentals of Digital and Analogue Electronic Techniques.


a) Electrical Quantities (Electric charge, current and voltage)
b) Discrete Electronic Components and their properties (resistors and resistance;
capacitors and capacitance; inductors and inductance; reactance, conductance and
impedance; electrical energy and power).
c) Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s laws and their applications.
d) Review of binary and hexadecimal arithmetic.
e) Analogue-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analogue Conversion
f) Audio signal filters
2. Introduction to Microphone and Loudspeaker Techniques for Performers.
a) Review of types and applications of microphones.
b) Monaural and stereophonic microphone techniques.
c) Overview of electronic sound balancing
d) Review of loudspeaker types and applications.
e) Introduction to Sound fields.
3. Electronic Noise and Audio Signal Distortion.
a) Review of electronic noise and signal-to-noise ratio.
b) Dynamic range and audio signal clipping.
c) Electromagnetic interference and cross-talk.
d) Harmonic distortion in acoustic transducers.
4. Audio Processing Practicum

Instructors: Dr. James Amaegbe & Mr. Anthony Okoro

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