This Three Month Course starts with the basics of soldering, electronics and troubleshooting, and leads into the fundamentals of processing equipment, sound effects, microphone techniques and full sound reinforcement systems.

Other professional and commercial applications will be covered. There will be plenty of hands on live production as well as in - class instruction.

The course includes both theory and practical applications.

Students learn about the equipment used, how it works, how it is made, and the real-world application of each piece of equipment.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to work in the following areas:
Sound Engineer, Monitor Technician, Stage Manager and Tour Manager.

Price of course $10,100.00  -  Start dates : July 2009, October 2009, January 2010, April 2010
--- Housing, Materials and Supplies included in Fee ---
 

For information on the Live Sound course, please contact:

Lorraine Gentry
Toll Free: 1-877-878-7464, or
Telephone: 1-250-757-9906

Email: luthiersintl@bcsupernet.com

or use our online Request for Information or Registration forms
 

The LIVE SOUND course covers these aspects of
professional live sound reinforcement:

Speakers:

• Learning how a speaker works
• Re-coning Speakers
• Speaker Modification
• Speaker Phasing
• Acoustical measurement of Loudspeakers with Professional sound measurement system (Computer)
• Electrical measurement of Loudspeakers with Professional sound measurement system (Computer)
• Thiele / Small Parameters: what they mean and their importance to cabinet design

Speaker Cabinets:

• Understanding the difference between a sub woofer and a mid/high cabinet
• Modifying speaker cabinets
• Learning about different speaker cabinet designs
• Cabinet Resonation and Cabinet Materials
   

Mixing Consoles and FOH FX & Processing:

• Learning what a compressor is, what it does and where to use it
• Learning what a Noise Gate is, what it does and where to use it
• Learning what effects are, what they do and where to use them
• Learning what Graphic and Parametric equalizer do and how to use them
• How to wire up a FOH with mixing console and effects rack
• How a mixing console works - Equalizer, Auxiliary as sends for effects and for monitors
• How to make cables - insert, Microphone, instrument, Multi Pin Cable and Breakouts
• Understanding cable polarity
• Hands on experience mixing FOH in a live situation under the supervision of a professional sound engineer

PA Systems:

• How to measure in a 3way PA System with a Professional measurement system and a digital processor
• How to wire a 3 way PA System with Sub Woofers and Mid/High Cabinets
• The importance of cabinet placement and cabinet phasing
• The difference between digital and analog crossovers and processing
• Learn how to make a multi pin multi core
• Learn the difference between a multi core and a return multi core and their purpose
• What does 2 way and 3 way mean
• Wiring a small PA System
• Wiring a big PA System
   

Monitor Systems Big and Small:

• Learn what monitors do
• Learn how to use and make a splitter multi core for a FOH & multi mix Monitor System
• Learn how to use a monitor console - Equalizers and Monitor Sends
• Wiring a monitor console with Equalizers, power amps and monitors
• Hands on experience mixing monitors in a live situation under the supervision of a professional sound engineer

Stage:

• Wiring a stage with and with out monitor system
• Wiring the microphones to the multi core
• Microphone placement for the least amount of leakage
   

Microphones:

• Microphones and what they do
• Microphone placement
• Microphone Characteristics
• Explain about microphones and frequency response of instruments
• Learning the difference between condenser and dynamic microphones
• Learning the difference between Vocal and Instrument Microphones
   

Cables:

• Learning about all the cables that it takes to wire a complete PA and Monitors system
• Explain the Purpose of all of them
• How to make them
• Explain the different Connectors and there purpose
• Explain the difference between speaker cable and signal cable and their proper usage

Job Descriptions:

• Front Of House Sound Engineer
• Monitor Sound Engineer
• System Technician
• Monitor Technician
• Stage Manager
• Cable Technician
• Tour Manager