Meyer Sound Education : Instructors

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Instructors

Meyer Sound has long been committed to providing educational resources to the professional audio community. Beginning early on with the development of SIM Seminars, Meyer Sound has recognized the importance of training and professional development to attain the ultimate goal of the best possible performance from a sound system of any size or application.

Meyer Sound's educational program seeks to enrich its participants in the comprehension of the theoretical concepts as well as the "real world" implementation of audio principles.

	Oscar Barrientos Technical Seminar Instructor Oscar Barrientos’ educational credentials include a degree in Electrical Engineering and advanced studies in Acoustical Instrumentation at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Latin America’s largest university. After completing the SIM System II certification course in 2000, Barrientos gave private lessons in audio and acoustics, as well as teaching courses at audio schools in Mexico. Prior to joining Meyer Sound in 2003, he worked as a technical support and systems engineer for rental company AG-Audio, a position which involved support for productions by well-known international artists. Now a senior instructor for Meyer Sound Mexico, Barrientos is developing new instructional techniques to help students understand the physics of audio.
	Giovanni Bugari Technical Seminar Instructor Giovanni Bugari is a product specialist at Grisby Music Ltd, Meyer Sound’s Italian distributor and handles the technical aspects of Grisby’s live shows and installation projects. Bugari started his career in professional audio in the 1980s and has compiled years of live sound experience as a stagehand, a stage manager, an audio engineer and a system tech; working on Italian and international productions with veteran sound engineer Pino Melluso. Bugari completed the two-year audio engineering program of the Italian division of Audio Engineering Society. Since then, he has attended Meyer Sound’s SIM School and has translated dozens of seminars taught by Mauricio “Magu” Ramirez.
	Richard Bugg Technical Support Manager LCS Series Richard Bugg has been the lead user support person and instructor for LCS Series products since 1999. His background includes several decades as a live sound engineer and electronic technician. Early formal training in instrumental performance and composition has provided the incentive to look at modifying system designs to meet artistic requirements. He is currently the Technical Support Manager for the LCS Series at Meyer Sound.
	Steve Bush Senior Technical Support Representative Steve spends his time helping customers as a Technical Support Representative, providing phone and email support, optimizing systems, and conducting product demos. But he also loves to teach, and his extraordinary breadth of experience and an engaging presentation style make him an in-demand seminar leader. Steve brings to the classroom years of experience as a touring system tech, and a FOH mixer for "oldies" bands, large-scale corporate events, and theatrical shows. In addition he has spent time in recording studios and working for regional sound companies.
	Gavin Canaan Educational Programs Manager Gavin Canaan’s career at Meyer Sound began with six years as a service representative before he moved on to sound rental company Pro Media/Ultra Sound for a five-year stint as their operations manager. Canaan returned to Meyer Sound in 2004 to serve as chief administrator of an expanding, worldwide educational effort that continues to set the standard for the professional audio industry. With broad experience at both the factory and user ends of the industry, Canaan is well equipped to grasp the importance of providing a thorough grounding in technology and a clear understanding of each product’s capabilities in complex sound reinforcement systems.
	Marc deFouquières Technical Seminar Instructor Marc de Fouquières is the technical manager of DISPATCH S.A., the largest sound rental facility in France. After physics studies at Paris 7 University, de Fouquières joined sound rental company STC, where he designed one of the first compact line array systems, the ST4 (which STC manufactured). De Fouquières toured worldwide as sound engineer for French singer Jacques Higelin, and began his long association with Meyer Sound when STC merged with DISPATCH in 1987. Since then, he has been involved in almost all of DISPATCH's large-scale sound system projects, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, and designs systems for Best Audio, Meyer Sound's French distributor. De Fouquières is a qualified SIM operator.
	Luke Jenks European Technical Support Manager Luke Jenks is Meyer Sound's Director of European Technical Support. Jenks joined Meyer Sound in 1989, when he was just 18 years old and proceeded to work his way through positions in manufacturing, loudspeaker test, research and development, design services, and technical support. In 1999, Jenks began providing technical support in Europe and, in 2001, moved to France and assumed his current position. Jenks has been involved in the design and support of many of the major projects, tours, and festivals in Europe with which Meyer Sound has been involved, giving him a tremendous amount of direct, hands-on field experience to complement his intimate knowledge of Meyer Sound's technologies and philosophy.
	Buford Jones Tour Liaison Manager Buford Jones is legendary in the world of sound reinforcement. Having started his touring career at Showco in the 1970s, the list of those he has mixed since is a genuine “Who’s Who” of pop music of the last three decades, including Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, George Harrison, James Taylor, ZZ Top, Pat Benatar, Three Dog Night, Prince, Al Jarreau, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Bowie, Faith Hill, The Kinks, Clint Black, and Counting Crows. As Pink Floyd’s FOH mixer, Jones gained valuable experience from the unusual opportunity to mix a major tour in surround. From Jones’s post heading Meyer Sound’s Nashville office he remains in constant contact with touring engineers and productions of all genres.
	Miguel Lourtie Technical Seminar Instructor Miguel Lourtie has been affiliated with Meyer Sound over the entire course of his career in sound reinforcement, starting in 1993, when he first worked for a Meyer Sound distributor in Europe, and then as a Meyer Sound certified SIM engineer. In 1997, Lourtie founded Lourisom, an audio consulting and distribution business in Portugal, which distributed Meyer Sound products in the country. In his current role as a member of Meyer Sound's European Technical Services group, Lourtie provides technical support and design services to customers within the European community. In addition to his technical skills and experience, Lourtie also possesses multilingual capabilities that allow him to reach industry professionals in their native languages including Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, as well as English.
	Bob McCarthy Senior Education Consultant Bob McCarthy has been involved in all aspects of source independent measurement (SIM) since the breakthrough technology’s inception in 1984 and has travelled worldwide to design and align systems for every type of venue. McCarthy created the original 40-hour comprehensive SIM School and has trained hundreds of SIM operators and all of the certified SIM instructors. His teaching style is fast-paced, rigorous, and marked by his ability to explain complex material in an understandable, practical manner. McCarthy recently executed a complete redesign of the SIM course to incorporate his newest alignment and design techniques, including up-to-date information on optimizing modern arrays and utilization of digital processing technology. McCarthy is the author of the SIM Sound Reinforcement Applications Guide and the Meyer Sound Design Reference, a comprehensive guide to designing and optimizing sound systems. For further information on Bob McCarthy, please visit his website: http://www.bobmccarthy.com.
	Todd Meier Design Services Manager As head of the Design Services Department, Todd Meier assists Meyer Sound staff and key customers in overcoming the toughest system design challenges by applying his in-depth mastery of the Meyer Sound MAPP Online acoustical prediction program. Meier came to the company in 1997 already equipped with a strong background in system installation design, especially in theatrical applications, having worked extensively with award-winning sound designer, Jonathan Deans, at Real Time Audio. In association with Level Control Systems, he completed several major projects for Las Vegas casinos, and was a key contributor to sound for Walt Disney's production of Beauty and the Beast in Toronto and for the US national tour, as well as the Toronto and Los Angeles productions of Ragtime: The Musical. Meier received a Master of Fine Arts in Sound Design from UCLA, and is a certified SIM Engineer.
	Károly Molnár Technical Support Károly Molnár is a European Technical Support Engineer for Meyer Sound. Based in Budapest, Hungary, Molnár, who is fluent in Hungarian and English, studied information technology at the Technical University of Budapest and worked for several major Hungarian pro audio concerns, including ATEC Hungary, before co-founding Chromatica Ltd. to do system design and installations. He joined Meyer Sound in 2004. Among Molnár’s many other qualifications, he is a certified SIM 3 operator.
	John Monitto Technical Support Manager John Monitto relies on his extensive experience in the professional audio industry to head up Meyer Sound’s ever-growing technical support department. Building on his BA in Broadcast Communications Arts (with an emphasis on audio production), Monitto worked as a project manager within Pro Media’s (now Pro Media/Ultra Sound) fast-growing sound and audio/visual system installations division, as well as touring with artists including Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and José Carreras. Corporate AV also falls within his experience, such as events produced by IBM, Apple Computer, Clorox and Motorola. Monitto is also a primary source of feedback from the field into product design and Meyer Sound’s educational program and has often been a trainer for Meyer Sound seminars.
	Thomas Mundorf Technical Seminar Instructor While he was still a student in 1984, Thomas Mundorf founded a rental company. In 1996, he bought his first Meyer Sound loudspeakers. Today Mundorf provides technical support to Meyer Sound’s customers, and continues to work as a freelance FOH engineer and system tech. He studied Electrical Engineering in Cologne and has a Master’s degree in Staging.
	Mauricio Ramírez Senior Technical Seminar Instructor Mauricio “Magu” Ramírez, Meyer Sound’s first full-time seminar instructor, is known on both sides of the Atlantic for his wealth of technical expertise and his engaging instructional style. Prior to his career in audio engineering, he earned a degree in computer management in his native Mexico. After working with several sound rental companies and artists, he applied his experiences to form a study program for training professionals in sound reinforcement. In 1992, he established the Dynamix School to instruct students from Mexico and South America. Ramírez attended SIM School in 1993, and three years later agreed to open a Meyer Sound school in Mexico. In 1997, Ramírez was named coordinator for Meyer Sound Mexico’s educational effort, and two years later received certification as a SIM Instructor. Currently he conducts seminars (in English or Spanish) throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America.