Many of us have listened back to a concert recording and thought "That's not what it sounded like from the podium!" Fear not! You needn't doubt your ears or resign yourself to sub-par recordings. With the information in this session, we can take your recordings from drab to designer with a touch of affordable equipment, a dash of free software, and just a pinch of know-how.

This session will include an introduction to the basic science of sound and extend into principles of audio engineering that are useful in our rehearsals, giving us the opportunity to learn how our technique can be improved with the added knowledge that has been brought to us from outside our field. By learning something about the work of Audio Engineers, we can learn to articulate what we would like from our recordings and make improvements to ones we are not happy with.

Basic wave-form analysis, equalization, high-, low-, and band-pass filters, the principles of reverberation, and the risks of compression can all help us understand sound better, which will improve our craft and our recordings.