Audio 201L-Live – Advanced Live Sound Mixing Lab
30 hours of lab
(Prerequisite: Audio 101L and Audio 201. This course can also be taken concurrently with Audio 201)
This is a hands-on-equipment lab course. The course meets once a week on Monday evening from 6:00 to 9:00PM. After 20 hours of in-class training, your supervisor will send you to help set up, run sound, and tear down gear at different concerts in and around San Antonio. Some of the gigs will be here at smoky night clubs, some will be at outdoor festivals, some will be running sound at a church, and some will be private parties that have live entertainment. Each “gig” will be about three hours long. Your supervisor will evaluate your performance at each show. Topics include:
- Proper “Load-In” of Sound Equipment
- Setting Up and Getting Connected
- Tuning the PA System
- “Ringing Out” the Monitors
- Amplifying The Band
- How to do proper Sound Check
- How to Solve Electrical Problem
- Live Mixing
- Wireless computer control of Digital Mixing Boards
