What's in module one of Pro Audio Workshop: Seeing Sound?
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Pro Audio Workshop: Seeing Sound is contained in five modules number one
tools of the trade and then placement aim eq and crossover alignment the very
first module is also the most important and the most valuable module and that's
because I like to front-load my courses with the most valuable stuff I can to
not only give you a great kickstart but to also make sure that if you stop after
two or three lessons you'll still have a lot of information to help improve your
work or maybe if for some reason the internet dies tomorrow and the side
isn't here anymore you still got a lot out of the course okay so that's kind of
the thinking behind the way I order these is that they are in a sort of a
show order this is the order that you would use these in real life on a real
show but also I've prioritized them by the most valuable lessons first
so let's take a look at module 1 tools of the trade um so this one has nine
lessons and the very first lesson is called important guidelines and this is
basically just a welcome video where you will join our online community schedule
your first call with me and basically take care of any of the small details to
get started
moving on to lesson 2 of module 1 introduction to linear systems this is
basically the why of this entire course we want to make sure that what we put
into the system is what we get out of it and that's what a linear system is so
here in linear systems also define minimum variance and some other
important terms and you can see that at the bottom of each lesson is the
homework and sometimes the homework is a quiz or an essay like in this one here
and then sometimes you'll upload an assignment like a design you've been
working on
lesson three is how to get the most out of this course I think the most valuable
thing that I teach in this course is how to be a better learner how to be a
better student and one of the best ways you can do that so that after this
course and as you continue to work on shows your learning gets better and
better and faster and faster on every show that you work on is to keep a show
log to actually write down the things that you're learning almost no one does
this so if you can start doing this thing that almost no one does you're
gonna start getting better faster than everyone less than one point four so
this kind of encapsulates what I was talking about before how I front-load
these lessons with the most valuable stuff map xt is a design and prediction
software from meyer sound and it is probably the best free sandbox for you
to play in to design systems and see their results and it's my opinion that
if you can learn to use it you can teach yourself everything that you could
potentially learn in this course less than 1.5 options for importing designs
into map XE so this is where you're going to learn to start putting your
room your performance spaces into the design and prediction software so that
you can start playing in that sandbox but including some more realistic
elements so then it's not just the default room that map xt opens up with
but you can put in your own personal elements you'll see that in a lot of
these lessons there's a short video here up top that teaches you like the main
critical things to learn so that you can get started right away but then there's
a there will often be supporting videos below that these came up as people ask
questions as I realize there needed to be a little bit more support in some
areas so for example in this video I teach my process for giving a design
into map XT when all you have is you know just a two-dimensional PDF that you
can't really import
and some more supporting videos here how to move between section and planned view
things like that
less than 1.6 gathering your hardware and software here's what we're gonna
start getting the pieces to put together our audio analyzer and then you need a
couple more things just like laser distance measure or a measuring tape
stuff like that basic tools I want you to know that I'm not gonna tell you to
buy a lot more things I don't want you to come into this course and say Oh
Nathan I bought your course and now you're telling me to buy a bunch more
sup know there's almost always a free or cheap alternative to whatever you want
to get and if there's ever a place in the course where I'm suggesting some
tool that you need but you can't get it at that time it's just not available to
you for whatever reason you can always skip over that part and then come back
to it later when you do have that tool that's the great thing about this course
that you can take at your own pace is that you can really get to the parts
that are important for you and kind of move around and make it your own Oh in
this first module is included two of my recorded workshops both of them two
hours long get started with sound system tuning part 1 and later on part 2
so again this is why setting up your audio analyzer for example could be an
entire course and I have a whole series of YouTube videos on it but a lot of
people coming into this course already have their audio analyzer set up and
they've been using it for years so they don't need a bunch of videos about that
so that's why this video is only 2 minutes long this course doesn't teach
smart it doesn't teach Sat live it teaches the physics of audio and using
the physics of audio to help you set up your sound systems for more consistent
results but under that there are supplemental videos getting started with
sound system tuning workshop using your audio analyzer with an LS 9 and then
some first steps with both smart and satlok hear that lesson 1.8 is about
reading the amplitude and phase graph and your audio analyzers transfer
function and here you have access to get starting with sound system tuning part 2
and then this is the last lesson in the course this will give you access to some
special course bonuses depending on which package of the course you
purchased either the standard or the accelerated and in this lesson is where
I keep all of the recordings of the office hours so at this point there are
over 20 recorded office hours so you don't need to go through all of these
but they're just here as a resource so it's almost like a whole other complete
course within this course just on this page so as I scroll down here you'll see
all these recordings here we did one with Bob McCarthy a while back
we've had several guests come in Warren Davis
Dail West
Maryland and Dean
I think those are all the guests but then we have some special topics here
stage monitors and it goes on and on because like I
said there were over 20 of them Kristen's URIs from rational acoustics
most people go through module 1 pretty quickly because they've been working in
audio for a while they have their audio analyzer set up and they just need to
make sure that they have all the pieces in order to really get started with the
course so that's module 1 in the next video I
want to show you module 2 sound design