The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
Productions may include: | music recording interactive media product, such as: CD DVD podcast internet production, e.g. website audio radio broadcast voice-over. |
Documentation may include: | production schedules set-up reports cue sheets track sheets dubbing charts equipment instructions OHS requirements organisational standards performers' requirements sound and audio reports technical manuals. |
Relevant personnel may include: | artists, musicians and performers audio and sound engineers audio and sound technicians/mixers broadcasters technical producers broadcast technicians and engineers directors producers conductors program managers curators post-production managers supervisors sound designers. |
Sound equipment and accessories may include: | amplifiers analogue to digital converters cables compact disc (CD) and digital versatile disc (DVD) players and burners computer technology and associated software digital and analogue recording devices: hard disk recorder, e.g. digital audio workstation (DAW) digital audiotape recorder, e.g. S-DAT and R-DAT digital videotape recorder (DVTR) mini disc recorder (MD) modular digital multi-track recorder (MDM) open-reel analogue audiotape recorder digital audio players, such as: iPod MP3 headphones microphones and accessories mixing consoles and desks monitors and speakers signal processors and plug-ins. |
Production requirements may include: | attributions audience budget confidentiality content contractual arrangements copyright deadlines direct quotes duration intellectual property interviews location purpose schedule style. |
Consumables may include: | audiotape, e.g. digital and open-reel analogue compact discs, e.g. CD-R and CD-RW cue sheets and track sheets digital versatile discs, e.g. DVD-/+R and DVD-/+RW masking tape, marker pens and labels mini discs (MDs) memory cards, e.g. flash memory cards. |
Microphones may include: | boundary (PZM) capacitor/condenser, such as: electret lavalier mini microphone transistor tube contact digital directional, such as: single entry port multiple entry port multi/poly-directional dual-element dynamic, such as: moving coil ribbon headset low and/or high impedance microphone systems, such as: adaptive array binaural high definition parabolic surround sound wireless cordless FM radio transmitter noise cancelling shotgun. |
Microphone accessories may include: | boom poles, including: aluminium carbon fibre fisher hand-held perambulator remote panner tripod cables, including: balanced unbalanced clips connectors, including: female male XLR housing pop filters shock mounts stands, including: desk floor gooseneck windscreens. |
Principles of microphone operation may include: | balanced and unbalanced audio transmission diaphragm diameter and frequency response diaphragm mass and transient response differential input and single-ended input directional characteristics, including: omnidirectional (non-directional) unidirectional, e.g. sub-cardioid, wide angle cardioid, cardioid, super-cardioid, hyper-cardioid and ultra-cardioid bi-directional ground loops and ground lift magnetic induction matching high/low impedance (passive/active DI interface) phase cancellation and acoustic comb filtering pickup pattern (polar response pattern) polarity sound response, such as: frequency response hum maximum sound pressure level overload limit proximity effect self-noise sensitivity signal-to-noise ratio transduction variable capacitance. |
Signal processing may include: | amplitude (dynamic) signal processing: compressors, e.g. broadband, split-band, de-esser limiters expanders noise gates pitch shifters noise processing, such as: Dolby dbx DSP spectrum signal processing: equalisers, e.g. fixed frequency, graphic, parametric and paragraphic filters, e.g. high/low pass, band pass and notch psychoacoustic processors time signal processing: reverberation, e.g. digital, plate and acoustic chamber delay, e.g. doubling, chorus, slap back and prereverb flanging, e.g. positive and negative phasing morphing. |
Appropriate recording techniques may include: | articulation and voicing breathing microphone use pitch playing, singing and performing style timing tone tuning volume. |
Production set-up report may include: | console settings effects settings microphone choices patch bay wiring processor settings track sheets. |
Work environment may include: | dubbing theatre outside broadcast recording studio sound stage. |