Tech Focus: Training, Part 2 — Manufacturers Offer Online and Onsite Audio Learning

One persistently out there supply of coaching for broadcast-sports audio has been producers of the gear used to seize, course of, combine, and transport it. Of course, a lot of the coaching modules give attention to the producers’ personal merchandise and are a part of advertising methods. However, the number of the content material throughout key verticals of broadcast sound, mixed with the depth and element that many obtain, implies that sufficiently bold learners can put collectively some surprisingly complete curricula. Here are a number of the choices out there on-line and elsewhere from broadcast-audio–gear producers.
Audio-Technica’s collection of primary how-tos on its YouTube channel contains choose and apply lavalier microphones, use of boom-pole and wi-fi mics, and microphone placement inside vehicles.

Calrec’s Sound Institute is a collection of free, on-line, certificated coaching programs and paperwork overlaying two of its most generally used digital audio consoles — Brio and Type R — together with a collection of complete IP coaching periods. Its seven-part IP course covers what broadcast must find out about IP: the way it works and the impact it’s having on our trade, together with multicast, PTP, and community design. Calrec has added Dolby Atmos coaching on immersive mixing, in addition to an eight-part IP primer and a whitepaper on construct resilience into IP networks. Calrec continues so as to add instructional materials to the Sound Institute and plans to give attention to its Argo platform this 12 months. In addition to on-line coaching, the corporate delivers to prospects and companions customized coaching that caters to the necessities of their system. In-person coaching is concentrated on operational, technical, frontline upkeep, and superior grasp courses, from one or two days to every week lengthy, both at Calrec’s head workplace or onsite.
Clear-Com presents common staff-led coaching webinars and onsite coaching for particular merchandise and installations. Quite a lot of on-line assets can be found totally free on the web site: amongst them a webinar recording library and a Tech Blog discussing user-submitted questions and matters, technical guides, and a complete Intercom Design Guide e book detailing conceive, plan, and finally implement an intercom system with efficient workflows.
Dolby continues its choices and assets to teach the published and live-production trade about deploy and create in Dolby Atmos. Remote mixer coaching is predicated on a Calrec Artemis with the Calrec Impulse Core, which allows native immersive Dolby Atmos mixing and monitoring. Live-mixers can join to be educated on each the legacy (non-native) setup and strategy and the Impulse’s extra complete native Dolby Atmos setup. In addition, Dolby presents coaching by its on-line studying platform, dwell and on-demand webinars, coaching tutorials, and grasp courses by the Dolby Institute.
Lawo supplies a line of tiered on-line tutorials (Foundational, Advanced, Master Class) overlaying its total product portfolio. At the top of every collection, college students take a take a look at to acquire a certificates of completion issued by the Lawo Academy. Certificates allow to pupil to maneuver on to the following tier. The on-line strategy with labs for the Foundational and Advanced tiers was chosen to allow self-paced studying by busy professionals. The Master Class tier is predicated on in-person coaching with dwell gear for small teams at Lawo’s HQ in Rastatt, Germany. In addition to freemium Academy content material, occasional Lawo Lounge webinars present product ideas, software insights, new merchandise, buyer interviews, interactive Q&As, and extra.
Riedel Communications presents “Riedel Tuesday” designed to have interaction customers of its merchandise inside a selected geographic space. The occasion options instruction from knowledgeable freelance Riedel consumer or one of many firm’s system engineers. Generally adhering to a schedule of the second or third Tuesday of every month at Riedel’s U.S. headquarters in Santa Clarita, CA, this system has advanced to accommodate requests from consumer teams or potential customers on any day of the week and in any metropolis. The intention is to maintain class sizes comparatively small, averaging 10-14 contributors or fewer. Riedel supplies further choices, comparable to on-line and in-person programs, the Academy To Go movies, “Andy Explains” coaching movies, and periods at particular occasions, together with highway exhibits. To host or be a part of a coaching session, click on right here.
The Shure Audio Institute (SAI) is a worldwide instructional and coaching platform offering entry to sensible data and abilities on basic audio matters and the corporate’s merchandise. The content material is delivered through webinars, in-person workshops, and on-line, self-paced programs by its studying portal. Additionally, instructional booklets are offered on many audio topics. The firm’s official YouTube channel additionally presents tutorials that educate viewers on microphone strategies, audio-system set up, troubleshooting, and extra. All coaching is free, encouraging people to deepen their understanding of audio and Shure merchandise. Additionally, SAI supplies certification applications and AVIXA Renewable Units to assist professionals keep trade credentials.

Solid State Logic (SSL) presents a wide range of coaching and teaching programs. Dedicated operational coaching and upkeep programs can happen onsite through the consumer’s personal console, on the SSL HQ studio facility, or over the web leveraging System T’s remote-production workflows. In addition, frequent webinars present System T and Network I/O coaching overlaying the extensive function set that the product ranges embody: NGA/immersive workflows, distant manufacturing, and superior AoIP implementation — that includes Dante, AES67, and ST 2110 — with routing administration immediately from the console. System T software program is obtainable as commonplace PC software Tempest Control App (TCA), operating offline for present configuration and coaching or remotely related to an lively console to supply on-line coaching or present help on a LAN or over the general public web utilizing a VPN.
Wheatstone’s VoxPro Academy is a web-based collection of video tutorials across the firm’s file/enhancing system, utilized by sportscasters to file and edit concurrently.