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XTA Goes to School
The IAB Institute of Audio based in Utrecht, Holland, has been running comprehensive training courses for the worlds of theatre, live music and television for the past 12 years. One element of this is a regular Sound Reinforcement seminar, where Dutch theatre and rental company employees can augment their audio skills. The course is designed to help sound engineers to better analyse a sound picture and produce a mix on up-to-date digital equipment. To ensure its technologies reflect current live sound practices, the Institute has equipped itself with digital loudspeaker management, EQ and dynamics units, including XTA digital signal processors.
“During these seminars, small classes practice building and setting up a complete sound system,” explains IAB’s Frans Ockeloen. “We have a stock of XTA equipment, purchased from TM Audio, including the full Series 2 range and GQ600s. They are used for set up of the sound system, with the D2s being used specifically for dynamics processing in ‘real-life’ practice lessons, during which the students are looking at screen projection of theatre show whilst doing a real time 32-track live audio mix, so that they are working in what is as close as is possible to a real mixing situation.”
Before they start a lesson, participants practice balancing EQ and dynamics with interactive teaching materials that IAB has developed by the European Media Master of Arts program, a cooperation between the University of Art and the Portsmoth University.
IAB has also found that an increasing number of companies require staff training and, as part of their program, they have developed on-site training as well as classes held in IAB’s own studio. They have already held seminars at RAI, the Vredenburg Theatre and the Toneelhuis in Antwerp, amongst others.
“During the last seminar, participants had a broad base to use as real practice,” continues Ockeloen. “We have found it very important for the students to work on representative equipment. This is why we now have XTA processors for them to use, as they have become an industry standard.”
21st September 2004
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