Pure Wave Audio Academy — The Complete Recording Curriculum - FREE

The Complete Recording Curriculum — Free With Your Pure Wave Audio Account

Formerly The Studio Edge Pro Audio Recording Series

246 chapters. Just under 14 hours. No charge, no expiry, no upsell at the end.

I'm Jim Pavett. I've been engineering in commercial studios since 1984, I hold a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona, and I've worked on Grammy-nominated projects along with records and scoring sessions for CBS, Netflix, Boyz II Men, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Gibbons and Marty Friedman. I built this curriculum in my studio, on the same gear I use every day.

It sold as a paid program for years. It's free now — because most recording problems aren't gear problems, and someone who understands why a decision works makes better choices about what to buy. That's better for you and better for me.

Volume One — Studio Concepts, Gear & the Physics of Sound
92 chapters · 3.6 hours

• The fundamental principles underneath every recording decision
• How to evaluate gear on specifications rather than marketing
• The physics of sound, taught so it's usable at the console

Volume Two — Building a Recording Studio, Acoustics & Gear
74 chapters · 5.75 hours

• Studio construction from the walls up, including isolation and HVAC
• Room modes, absorption versus diffusion, and treatment planning from scratch
• Monitor selection and placement, so you can trust what you're hearing

Volume Three — Drum Recording, Anatomy, Preparation & Miking
80 chapters · 4.6 hours

• Kit anatomy and preparation before a single mic goes up
• Microphone selection for every part of the kit
• Miking technique, phase, and the decisions that make a kit sit in a mix

These were built as one curriculum, not three separate courses. Later chapters assume what came before. And if you've been behind a console for twenty years, Volume One is still worth your time — not as a beginner's course, but as a refresher on why we make the decisions we make.

Go to the Pure Wave Audio Academy — create a free account and everything above is yours.