Seminars
/ Q&A
Basic Sound Seminar
- 1 Hour
Hosted by Chris Hinds
* Introduction
* Electrical Basics
* Understanding Specifications and looking for lies
* Amplifiers - Some facts, Bridging and selection
* Speakers - What the specs mean
* Speakers - Why adding bins helps
* Speakers - What blows speakers
* Speakers - Powered vs Unpowered
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Crossovers - Controls and when to use them
* EQ - Brief overview of why and why not
* Simple Setup - Getting the start point right
* Simple Setup - Initial Settings
* Simple Setup - Making adjustments
* System Best Practice
* 8 Myths of Audio and the reasons behind them
* Responsible Sound
* Q&A Session
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Seminars
/ Q&A
Advanced Sound
Seminar - 1 Hour+
Hosted by Chris Hinds
* Introduction
* Issues
of the basic method
* Reminder of what makes good sound
* Optimising the material
* More on the Decibel
* Optimising the electronics
* Considering the speakers
- The frequency range divided
- Subs, Tops and Driver Sizes
- Some simple maths
- Using Frequency response graphs
- Adding more speakers
- More from your bins, less is more from your tops
- Comb Filtering
- Keeping sound on the dance floor
- how sound drops with distance inc the Bose L1
* Acoustic Issues
- Reflections in the room
- sorting the problem
* Amplifiers
- SMPS vs Iron Core
- Using the spec sheet to optimise the amp
* Detailed Setup
- Introducing measurement
- why it probably doesn't help
* How we hear
* Peaks, Troughs and Averages
* In Depth Crossovers
- Acoustic vs Electric
- LinkWitz-Riley
- Butterworth
- Bessell
- Picking the crossover point
* DSP
- Why it's not as hard as it seems
- Advantages of this in system setup
- Setting the extra control
- Using the alternate controls to improve
- Setting the limiters, and the limits of limiters
* Equalisation
- When to use
- How to use
* Compression
* Close including some websites for more information
* Q&A Session
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