MSC IND 107AShaping Sound: Audio Technology for Creative Musicians
Music Industry · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to basic acoustic principles, practical techniques, and working procedures for equipment used in contemporary music production, including microphones, mixers, recorders, synthesizers, and sequencers. Basic sound processing operations (equalization, compression, distortion, reverberation). Operating principles of most popular systems of music production software and hardware.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Fall 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MSC IND 107A
- MSC IND 107BEngineering and Production for Musicians
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.