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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Patch" data-source="post: 64836" data-attributes="member: 1402"><p>Re: Looking to Make Varsity - Any Good Training Programs?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #222222">[FONT=&amp]I took the SynAudCon “Sound Reinforcement for Technicians” course last week after finding out about it here on the forum and I thought I’d report back what my experience with it was. </span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">[/FONT]</span></p><p> <span style="color: #222222">[FONT=&amp]It is an expense to take a course like this not to mention the lost productivity at work which can be even more expensive. The last thing I want to do is sit in a class and listen to jokes and stories meant to entertain me. I want the class to get to the point and get going and that was definitely the case here. Any stories were purely illustrative of a point that was made in the class. [/FONT]</span></p><p> <span style="color: #222222">[FONT=&amp]</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">I am a hobbyist. I’ve been doing live sound for a few years and I have a nice rig. I’ve enlisted the help of experienced people to help me along, but I want so badly to be competent at it myself. I’ve dabbled in sound all my life, but didn’t have a grasp of the fundamentals. I was concerned that the course would be over my head and I spoke to Brenda and Pat about it in advance. They thought it would probably be okay and even offered to make an accommodation if it wasn’t a good match. It turned out to be a very, very good match.[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">[FONT=&amp]</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">I finally have some understanding of balanced outputs and inputs and common mode rejection. There were fascinating demonstrations of RF interference and the effects of loops, twisted pairs, shields and ground loops. We covered crest factor, rms voltage, impedance sweeps, time alignment, transfer function, fast Fourier transform and time windows. I finally know what comb filtering sounds like! We covered distributed speaker systems. Now I know what that speaker with the 70v on the back is for. I think some of the most important things for me are an understanding of impedance and rms voltage. We covered those subjects in depth. [/FONT]</span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: #222222">[FONT=&amp]The truth is that I wish I had been able to take a class like this many years ago. It is the foundation for understanding more. Pat takes subjects that seem to be mired in opinion and lays them out in a way that is simple and repeatable. I've read way too many opinions on way to many forums. This class gets to the meat of the matter. I recommend it without reservation to anyone that wants a solid grounding in these subjects.[/FONT]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Patch, post: 64836, member: 1402"] Re: Looking to Make Varsity - Any Good Training Programs? [COLOR=#222222][FONT=&]I took the SynAudCon “Sound Reinforcement for Technicians” course last week after finding out about it here on the forum and I thought I’d report back what my experience with it was. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#222222][FONT=&]It is an expense to take a course like this not to mention the lost productivity at work which can be even more expensive. The last thing I want to do is sit in a class and listen to jokes and stories meant to entertain me. I want the class to get to the point and get going and that was definitely the case here. Any stories were purely illustrative of a point that was made in the class. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#222222][FONT=&] I am a hobbyist. I’ve been doing live sound for a few years and I have a nice rig. I’ve enlisted the help of experienced people to help me along, but I want so badly to be competent at it myself. I’ve dabbled in sound all my life, but didn’t have a grasp of the fundamentals. I was concerned that the course would be over my head and I spoke to Brenda and Pat about it in advance. They thought it would probably be okay and even offered to make an accommodation if it wasn’t a good match. It turned out to be a very, very good match.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#222222][FONT=&] I finally have some understanding of balanced outputs and inputs and common mode rejection. There were fascinating demonstrations of RF interference and the effects of loops, twisted pairs, shields and ground loops. We covered crest factor, rms voltage, impedance sweeps, time alignment, transfer function, fast Fourier transform and time windows. I finally know what comb filtering sounds like! We covered distributed speaker systems. Now I know what that speaker with the 70v on the back is for. I think some of the most important things for me are an understanding of impedance and rms voltage. We covered those subjects in depth. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#222222][FONT=&]The truth is that I wish I had been able to take a class like this many years ago. It is the foundation for understanding more. Pat takes subjects that seem to be mired in opinion and lays them out in a way that is simple and repeatable. I've read way too many opinions on way to many forums. This class gets to the meat of the matter. I recommend it without reservation to anyone that wants a solid grounding in these subjects.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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