training

I started by training non-technical people how to become radio broadcasters and to work a recording studio. I had realised it was no point having good radio equipment when people couldn’t use it well, or worse, felt so intimidated that didn’t dare try. This expanded to teaching for the Canberra Institute of Technology, ANU School of Music and then convening Sound Design & Production for the University of Canberra for a few years. Separately, I often am in regular contact individuals, helping then achieve their specific goals. Usually that's with their own equipment.

Although I may be training specific skills or applications, it all keeps coming back to the basics of sound engineering, which has never changed much. We still have microphones, speakers, mixers, amplifiers, equalisers, compressors, time delays... Our interfaces are different to fifty years ago but physics is the same. Likewise with the concept of signal flow - understand that and a lot simplifies. And knowing something about psychoacoustics, how the brain hears and discriminates, is important too. And I say to people if you don't know what to spend money on, buy the very best monitors you can afford. Maybe 50% of your total studio budget. They're an extension of your ears and thoroughly influence your craft and art. In comparison software is ephemeral.

The more I explain or demonstrate, the more I learn. I enjoy talking to groups, underlining structured content with my experience in the world of audio. And one to one training at its best is about dialogue, drawing out innate talents, shining a light, asking questions that enable somebody to discover their own answers. Every situation and person is different. If I can help I will, if I can't I might know somebody else in my network who can.

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