Meyer Sound : Courses

Introductory Courses	Automating Live Sound: Audio Show Control, Mixing, and Playback
	Fundamentals of System Design, Implementation, and Optimization
	Introduction to Room Acoustics
	MAPP Online Pro
	Sound System Design
	System Design Principles
	The Mixing Workshop

Intermediate Courses	Cinema Sound
	Line Array Design and Application
	Meyer Sound Practical Training: Methods and Applications
	The Mixing Workshop Two Days

Advanced Courses	Comprehensive System Design and Implementation
	Matrix3 Training and Applications
	SIM 3 Training and System Design

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Automating Live Sound: Audio Show Control, Mixing, and Playback
One Day

This one day seminar is designed to provide attendees with an introduction to the concepts of utilizing audio show control, mixing console automation, and digital playback systems in live theater.

Some historical background is presented covering the origin and roles of sound effects and music playback systems in the theater. Modern Sound and Sound System Design techniques and concepts are discussed. Example sound cues are evaluated and presented as operational challenges. The recent advances in sound console automation integrating Show Control and Playback are presented with a practical demonstration to be programmed during the seminar.

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Cinema Sound
One Day

This seminar will focus on multi-channel audio for Cinema and provide the attendee with an overview covering introductory knowledge needed to plan for, design, and align a multi-channel audio system for cinema applications. Also explored will be the fundamentals of content creation and how a cinema sound track is developed.

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Comprehensive System Design and Implementation
Five Days

The five-day intensive seminar integrates course materials from several other training sessions into a single seminar that gives participants a solid working familiarity with all aspects of Meyer Sound’s technology. The course builds a solid understanding of measurement, covering concepts such as FFT analysis, filters and phase relationships at an advanced level and with practical reference to use of the SIM 3 audio analyzer system. Other main topics covered include system alignment, basic array theory, applications for Meyer Sound MAPP Online, use of Meyer Sound line drivers for optimizing performance, and an in-depth look at line array theory with specific and detailed reference to a broad spectrum of M Series array applications.

This seminar is designed for acoustical consultants, sound contractors working with complex systems, touring and theatrical system designers and system techs, and advanced audio students. Attendees should have prior education in audio fundamentals and acoustics, or equivalent experience.

Participants should bring their own Internet-ready laptop computer.

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Fundamentals of System Design, Implementation, and Optimization
Two Days

This seminar encompasses a variety of topics in sound system applications. Practical information on system design and application is presented in a real-world context to provide useful background. Theory and practice of line arrays are discussed, along with the tools for system optimization, including equalization, delay, loudspeaker management systems and measurement with the SIM 3 audio analyzer.

The seminar’s second day is dedicated to use of Meyer Sound MAPP Online acoustical prediction software as a primary tool in system design. After an extensive introduction to the program and its capabilities, attendees are walked through exercises in which they specify venues and design loudspeaker systems to cover them.

Finally, the seminar will discuss and demonstrate important concepts pertaining to the use of subwoofers and methods of deployment that obtain optimal coverage and directivity characteristics.

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Introduction to Room Acoustics
One Day

Acoustics is a highly specialized and complex academic field of study. Today’s audio engineers and consultants, even without advanced academic study in acoustics, need to be equipped with a basic understanding of room acoustics to effectively accomplish the goal of designing and optimizing sound systems in the different challenging environments they encounter.

This course will introduce participants to the concepts and terminology used in the field of acoustics and will cover a variety of topics including: Defining Transmission Chain; Source, Propagation, and Complex Acoustical Environments; Initial Time Delay Gap; Early and Late Reflections; the Haas Effect; Amplitude vs. Time; Room modes; RT60, ISO 20, ISO 30, and Early Decay Time; Critical Distance, Speech Transmission Index, and RASTI.

In addition this course will also introduce participants to Meyer Sound’s Constellation Electroacoustic Architecture and demonstrate how this powerful technology can be applied to revolutionize the flexibility of acoustical spaces.

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Line Array Design and Application
Two Days

In this two-day event, participants learn how to utilize line arrays as part of the design and implementation of complex sound reinforcement systems in a performance environment.

Day one is dedicated to the use of Meyer Sound MAPP Online Pro acoustical prediction software as a primary tool in system design. After an extensive introduction to the program and its capabilities, attendees are walked through designing a loudspeaker system to cover a specific venue using Meyer Sound’s M Series Curvilinear array products.

The second day is dedicated to hands-on training in an environment which represents the demanding nature of typical schedules facing the industry. Participants walk through all procedures involved in implementing systems designed during the previous day: rigging, cabling, flying, signal distribution, optimizing the response using the Galileo 616 Processor, and verifying the result with the SIM 3 audio analyzer.

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MAPP Online Pro
One Day

This one day intensive course is focused on advanced applications for MAPP Online Pro, Meyer Sound’s acoustical prediction program.

Seminar participants will apply the advanced features of MAPP Online Pro across a wide variety of system design scenarios, from simple portable applications to highly complex, multi-zone arrays for large performance venues. Topics covered include procedures for importing CAD drawings of venues, specifying mixed arrays with different loudspeaker cabinets, viewing frequency response updates with the moving microphone feature, and making the best use of the software’s integrated rigging calculator.

This seminar is highly recommended for all designers of fixed or portable sound reinforcement systems using Meyer Sound products.

Participants should bring their own Internet-ready laptop computer.

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Matrix3 Training and Applications
Three Days

This 3-day comprehensive seminar covers programming, operation, and maintenance of the Matrix3 audio show control system. Topics include system configuration, Wild Tracks programming, and SpaceMap designs. Course size is kept small in order to facilitate hands-on instruction.

This seminar is designed for sound designers, audio engineers, lead audio technicians, senior maintenance technicians, and advanced audio students. Attendees should have prior education in audio fundamentals and acoustics, or equivalent experience. Each student should also come prepared with a laptop computer running Windows XP, Mac OSX, or SuSE Linux and have a working network interface.

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Meyer Sound Practical Training: Methods and Applications
Two Days

This seminar takes a practical approach to designing sound systems for a wide range of applications utilizing Meyer Sound products and tools to achieve the maximum performance from these systems.

The seminar will look at a variety of Meyer Sound products, but will focus on M Series products and will cover other topics such as prediction and system design using Mapp Online, rigging, system preparation, remote monitoring of the systems, as well as measurement and optimization using SIM 3.

Attendees are given guidelines for developing a systematic approach to designing, installing, and optimizing Meyer Sound systems.

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SIM 3 Training and System Design
Four Days

This in-depth seminar provides participants with a thorough theoretical and operational understanding of source independent measurement and a solid grounding in application of SIM analysis in the design of complex audio systems. The seminar gives a brief review of SIM theory and system development, followed by a comprehensive discussion of field use procedures for the SIM 3 audio analyzer. The seminar then extends the foundation of SIM measurement into sound system design. Participants will look at the complex interactions of loudspeakers in a variety of configurations and acoustical environments from the standpoints of phase, frequency and impulse responses.

Participants should bring their own Internet-ready laptop computer, but need not bring their SIM 3 units.

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Sound System Design
Ten Days

This in-depth course guides the student through the content of Meyer Sound’s Design Reference for Sound Reinforcement, the comprehensive print resource on the art and science of system design and measurement. Dealing with each topic at an intermediate to advanced level, the course covers behavior of system components (filters, equalizers, amplifiers and loudspeakers), how they interact with each other, and the net effect in time and amplitude domains when systems are deployed in acoustic environments. Real-world examples illustrate particularly problematic situations, and outline both the physics behind the solutions and specific applications of Meyer Sound technology. Sub-topics covered in detail include measurement tools and techniques, acoustical modeling with MAPP Online, various types of loudspeaker arrays, speaker system zoning and alignment, and line array theory with particular emphasis on phase relationships.

Participants should bring their own Internet-ready laptop computer.

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System Design Principles
One Day

This seminar provides a broad overview of essential principles involved in the design and measurement of complex sound reinforcement systems. Participants receive a basic grounding in the key parameters of audio measurement (phase response, impulse response) and how they relate to filters and phase alignment. A comprehensive summary of array configuration principles is integrated with a discussion of acoustical prediction theory using Meyer Sound MAPP Online. The seminar also introduces line array theory, outlining how different line array solutions apply in specific applications. System optimization approaches are covered in conjunction with an overview of Source Independent Measurement as implemented in the SIM 3 audio analyzer.

This seminar is recommended for audio students, system technicians, as well as contractors, dealers and rental companies new to Meyer Sound.

Participants should bring their own Internet-ready laptop computer.

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The Mixing Workshop
One Day

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The Mixing Workshop Two Days
Two Days

The Mixing Workshop focuses on the role of the mix engineer in live audio production. Buford Jones gives attendees the benefit of his vast experience working with an incredible array of artists from numerous genres in a seminar that goes beyond the technical to artistic and even political concerns. Mixing tools and techniques, system tuning, mixing in concert halls, record producer involvement, surround mixing, mixing in isolation are all discussed, but Jones also addresses issues of communication and trust between the artist and the mix engineer, and the politics involved in any production, from large-scale tours, to corporate events and house of worship productions.

Day one will include a lecture and presentation that emphasizes the benefits of mixing on linear sound systems. Demonstrating this with playback of live recordings and discussions of the various sound systems used.

Day two will expand on live mixing, demonstrations of implementing common signal processing, as well as giving attendees an opportunity to mix and receive advice on how to improve their skills from a master of the trade.

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