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A-Level Music Technology (Pearson Edexcel 9MT0) — the sole provider; recording, technology-based composition, and the principles and history of recording technology.
Overview
A-Level Music Technology (Pearson Edexcel 9MT0) — the sole provider; recording, technology-based composition, and the principles and history of recording technology.
Complete topic map
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Amplitude, frequency and the audible range, room acoustics, reverberation and RT60, and psycho-acoustics.
The signal path, connectors, balanced connections, impedance and metering, with the relevant numeracy (dB, Hz, ms, bpm).
DAW functions and studio hardware: microphones, interfaces, pre-amps, DI boxes, desks, outboard effects and controllers.
Microphone types, polar patterns, frequency and transient response, the proximity effect and gain structure.
Single and multiple miking, multi-mic setups, coincident and spaced stereo, and phase and spill.
Truncating, removing clicks, hiss, hum and plosives, fades and cross-fades, normalising, and why discontinuities occur.
Corrective tuning and audio quantise, and creative pitch and time manipulation.
Waveforms, LFO, filters and ADSR, cut-off and resonance, mono and poly modes, portamento and the arpeggiator.
Editing and looping samples, pitch-mapping, key and velocity zones, and sample rate and bit depth.
Real-time and step input, MIDI data, quantise, and piano-roll and list editing.
Compression, gating, limiting, expansion and de-essing, with threshold, ratio, attack, release and side-chain.
Shelf, band, pass, parametric and graphic EQ, with gain, frequency, Q and slope.
Reverb, delay and ADT, flange, chorus and phaser, distortion and amp modelling, and vocoder, with sends and inserts.
Pan and panning law, mid-side and widening, balance, and mastering for volume and tonal balance.
Multitrack recording of a listed song and a technology-based composition from a brief (non-exam assessment).
From digital back to 1930s mono: analogue versus digital, tape, formats, valves and electric instruments.
Where this subject applies
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AS-Level
Advanced Subsidiary — the first year of A-Level study (standalone or first half of the full A-Level).
A-Level (A2)
The full Advanced Level — AS content plus the second-year A2 content.
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