Addendum to Independent Study in Sound Design and Sound System Component Operation :: essays research papers

Addendum to Independent Study in Sound Design and Sound dodging Component Operation     This ult year (2000) I charter been working in the weighty booth for The John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts. Here at the John Lyman Center (JLC) we have been going through with(predicate) a time of transition. The former resident technical guru who had taken care of JLCs happenings had retired, leaving the JLC in a semi chaotic state. The leaping school season was just about to start which happens to be our busiest time of the year. The administrative staff here at the JLC was franticly trying to find a heir while interim Chris Hudacs fought his was through the perilous dance school season.      Finally, when all the hullabaloo was over David Starkey, formally serving as Technical Director of the house Department at Southern Ct. State Univ. was named the new title of Events Manager. When David was still working in the theatre department I had approached him when it was pointed out that there was no one person on staff who knew how to fully operate the sound system. The idea I had come up with was to design an independent study which would fall by the wayside me to be in the sound booth and empirically discover how to operate the sound system and all of its support components. He agreed that it was a ripe(p) idea because Greg had never explained anything but remedial board operation. Since I first started working at the JLC I had wanted to work on the sound system, this instant I was being given the chance. The independent study was written up as followsIndependent Study in Sound Design and Sound System Component operationObjectives-To demonstrate competence in properly operating the sound system and all its individual components in Lyman Auditorium. Which includes but is not circumscribed to the following     Sound board     Tape player     DAT player & nbsp   Mini saucer player     Compact disk recorder     Compact disk player     Digital effects processors     Patch bay     Wireless microphones     Digital synthesizer-By the 8th week be prepared to work with the head sound designer in developing a sound design for the crescent players fall production of "three penny opera". The sound design should integrated as many of the listed devices as possible to ensure that a high quality production is obtained.     The learning process I have been going through has included help from many people. I would sit and pick the brain of every sound engineer that came through here. Finding out what you did with an Omni Drive or how to use the feedback detector and the graphic equalizer to get rid of feedback.