Class fees may be paid via credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover). Payment of the class fee in-full is due at the time of registration. Please be sure you are available to attend the session in-person prior to registering. Smaart Online Lab Sessions are conducted live, and the sessions will not be archived for later viewing.
Refunds will not be issued for missed sessions due to attendee computer problems. Please be sure your computer and internet connection meet Zoom’s minimum system requirements and that your webcam and microphone are working prior to joining the session. Registered attendees will be emailed a session link and password, along with instructions for joining the session, approximately 48 hours prior to the session start time. Smaart Online Lab Sessions are conducted via Zoom.
Attendance is limited to a maximum of 8 attendees to enhance direct student-instructor interaction. Each session will run between 90 minutes and 2 hours. These sessions include demonstrations and in-depth discussions on the chosen topic. Smaart Online Lab Sessions are in-depth presentations on select topics building upon the foundation established from the Smaart Operator Fundamentals course content. Smaart Video Tutorial: Introduction to SPL and Leq Smaart Operator Fundamentals Online (SOFO) Session 6: All About SPL Prior to joining the lab attendees are recommended to review: Finally, veteran FOH mixers Ken “Pooch” Van Druten (Iron Maiden, Linkin Park, Katy Perry) and Jim Yakabuski (Peter Frampton, Van Halen, Journey) will lead an open discussion on how they apply these techniques in their mixing. Then we’ll cover advanced applications that FOH mixers can use to closely examine their own mixes and achieve full, impactful, dynamic mixes even when bound by level restrictions. After learning the basics of SPL, we’ll take a tour through Smaart’s powerful SPL toolset. This session is a crash course in SPL techniques for FOH mix engineers. This is a Level 1 session, hosted by Rational Acoustics and taught by Michael Lawrence with special guests Ken “Pooch” Van Druten and Jim Yakabuski.
Mixing Within the Limit: SPL Applications for Front of House Engineers (with special guests Ken “Pooch” Van Druten and Jim Yakabuski).