Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics

Acoustics meets electronics

This is the first part of a fundamentals course that links the physics of sound to electronics. It explains how acoustic principles help you understand musical sound, and how those principles connect to making music with electronic instruments.

Topics covered

The course deals with sound waves, musical sound and basic electronics, then applies those ideas to amplifiers and speaker design. The emphasis is on understanding how the parts of a sound system behave, which suits anyone curious about how their gear works.

Who should take it

• Musicians who want to understand their amplifiers and speakers
• Students of audio engineering starting with the fundamentals
• Electronic music makers curious about hardware

Listed at intermediate level, it is best approached with some familiarity with music or electronics.