I want to give you a quick tour of Pro Audio Workshop: Seeing Sounds
You can see what it's like on the inside if you're thinking about joining.
First of all there's two packages to choose from. This one's your standard
package. This one's accelerated. I created the accelerated one for people who
basically want to go faster that's why it's called accelerated so the main
thing here is that you get four extra one-on-one private set training sessions
with me to be used anytime during the first six months that you're working on
the course you also get access to a special private mastermind group that I
have that's over here and an extra six months in our private community so if
you feel like you just need a little something extra and you want to move
quickly that might be the right package for you down here when you decide
between standard and accelerated then you're gonna choose whether you want to
pay monthly or upfront upfront just means like you would normally pay the
tuition for any course you're gonna pay all of it at once usually and so you can
choose to if you pay all at once right away then you're going to save some
money on both of these I did want to make it easier for people to join though
so I financed a monthly payment plan so the on this one for example would be $97
your first month and then you would have five more payments after that so each of
these is for six months okay so six payments of $97 for this monthly
standard package six payments of $197 for this standard package so again most
seminars and workshops and courses you would take would require you to pay all
this upfront right but I know a lot of people can't really handle that kind of
expense and so I've allowed you to split it out over a few months okay so you
choose one of those you'll go ahead and join and then the first thing that's
going to happen is you're going to open up to this page this shows an overview
all of the modules there's five of them we have tools of the trade placement aim
EQ and listening and crossover alignment so then within each module there are
lessons this first module has lessons 1.1 1.2 these are introductory lessons
to sort of get you started teach you how to use the system here and the middle
lessons are about getting your tools up and running so you're gonna need some
kind of prediction design software I don't really care which one you use but
there are free ones available that I recommend people use map map XT is one
of the free ones that allows you to do a lot of stuff and then we talk about
getting your audio analyzer set up now this first module for a lot of people
can go by really quick it might just take you a week or less because if you
already have an audio analyzer smart Sat live these kind of things set up then
you can just kind of blaze through this and you'll be ready for the next module
if you don't have those things set up then this first module can take a little
bit longer and that's why when you get into this lesson let's see I'll go ahead
and open this one up I think that's why in this lesson there is a lot of extra
stuff below here so you might just go through this video lesson you know if
you say okay great I'm done my stuff is set up or you might scroll down here and
you might want to go through a lot of this bonus content that covers first
steps with a lot of the software okay there's a lot of extra stuff in here to
really help you out help you get through here let's just take a look at what a
normal lesson looks like I guess I could have used that one but I'll go into
lesson 1.8 amplitude and phase response measurements so the first thing is
always a video you watch that this one's five minutes that's about normal
most of these lessons are five to seven some of the longer ones that have more
in the field training are maybe 10 to 15 minutes but I try to keep them short
there might be some notes and then it's gonna list what your homework is for
each lesson in this case the homework for this
lesson is just a short quiz and then you can go on to the next lesson
so let's took a look at the second module
okay module 2 is placement so in placement we've got analyzing our room
and inventory visualize and speak your coverage front to back distance ratio
for a single speaker I'm talking about putting where that these are sort of
names of that try to encapsulate the the lesson you're learning in each lesson
sorry if I'm being too redundant anyway that's why this one's called put
sound where the people are 2.4 is placed at coverage center
two point five is match speaker coverage angle two room size and then we've got
match speaker shape two room shape with forward aspect ratio so this is when we
start getting into a little bit of geometry and math in this lesson in this
whole module and I think this one is really fun the way I have this entire
course setup is to front-load all of I think the most important things that
you're going to need so that's why in the first module it covers all the tools
in the prediction software so that way if for some reason this site goes off
line or I don't know you go to live on an island with no internet access or I
disappear for some reason if you know how to use your prediction software
design software you can basically teach yourself everything you need to know if
you know how to use your audio analyzer you can measure things and basically
teach yourself everything you need to know okay so that's why I try to
front-load all this stuff when I walk into a room and I'm trying to think
about okay where am I gonna put my speakers where do they need to be aimed
the first things that start I start thinking about okay what are the
mentions of this room what is the forward aspect ratio of the room how do
I need to divide that up okay so that's why these are the first lessons okay
this is all about speaker placement and then the last lesson is basic subwoofer
arrays there are several bonus videos in there too as I learn more and more and
create more lessons about smaller sub woofer arrays
all right let's go on to module three so module three is all about speaker aim
okay and the steps you into it really easily first we just talk about the
basics of horizontal aim then we talk about doing some calculations with
triangles a little bit about geometry that I think is gonna help everyone then
we talk about some lessons in vertical aim how can we calculate and estimate
that if we know our speaker location now that we've done location and we know
where the audience plane is then how can we estimate our vertical aim okay and
then there are a bunch more lessons in this module you guys this one has been
growing over the last year it started out with I think 10 and now it has like
15 lessons and that's because I realized that there are people are asking me more
and more questions about what about this scenario what about this scenario okay
so we start off with a misplay of a couple point source array and then we
get into a mince play of an asymmetrical couple point source array so these are
your like mono cluster maybe and then you've got a main and a some kind of
fill speaker or a relay speaker down the side of the room that kind of stuff and
then we just go over some of the trade-offs between an uncoupled point
source and a point destination array okay just depending on where you aim
those we're talking about aiming at the lay speaker and then after that there's
a whole series of lessons here about calculating display and aim for a line
array and then after that we get into a bunch of verification lessons now a lot
of these are really sort sort because here we're just doing breaking
everything down to like its minimum smallest element okay that's what this
whole course tries to do is walk you through like what's the next smallest
step we need to take in understanding how these different speaker combinations
go together so now that we have aimed all these things using some kind of math
or geometry usually then we're gonna verify that aim with our audio analyzer
down here okay so we go through all of the shape
again symmetric couple points are surae asymmetric couple point source array
okay and then also verifying the a misplay of a line array
cool let's go to the next module module four is all about EQ and listening this
is usually the module that people want to jump into right away and I think it's
not the most important one which is why I put a little bit later also EQ is just
the last step in the process when you're looking at like the sound system tuning
roadmap so that's why EQ is later if it occasionally happens that people join
the course and they are just dying to get into module 4 module 5 and I can
open that up for ok you don't necessarily have to go through them all
in order but that is what I recommend so less lessons here right this is
basically how to use two filters how to EQ a room using a target response and
then what is our EQ order of operation so we start with our smallest piece
right a single speaker usually our main speaker that covers the largest portion
of the audience okay try to do a democracy and then we put those together
piece by piece so okay now that we've taken our biggest main speaker what does
it have like a coupled sort of lateral extension okay do we need to look at
that okay that's our B speaker so then we do a plus B and we do the EQ for
those okay is there another speaker in that array or is there some other kind
of subsystem that's like an uncoupled like our our fill speakers out here our
front fills okay let's look at those let's put all those together and then
let's connect our main array to our our other subsystem down here and so step by
step we stitch all those things together with a plan so that's what the EQ order
of operations these last lessons are down here for this module
okay the next module module five is the last module this one is all about
crossover alignment either spectral or spatial so we start with our spatial
crossover alignment and that's the like our fill speakers okay so I think
probably the most interesting most complicated thing that we learned in
these lessons is where to put the measurement microphone okay because with
a full-range speaker setting the delays not that hard we just look at our audio
analyzer one delay says ten one says twenty okay the difference is 10
milliseconds we need to add 10 milliseconds of delay that's not that
hard the hard part is where do we actually put the measurement microphone
to take that measurement so that's what a lot of these lessons are about and
then lastly is the spectral crossover alignment that's our main and sub okay
any sort of spectral extension not into the low frequencies maintenance of
alignment I'm again people a lot of people come into the course wanting to
do a main set alignment right away and again I think that's one of the last
things that we're doing but if people get in and they really want to get into
this lesson right away then I go ahead and open up form okay and then we talk
about subs on an ox and then continuing to do measurement during show time
now these are the I think what is it 52 or 58 lessons that I have so far in the
next year I'm planning to add another module that basically just includes lots
of full tunings because that is what students have been asking me for people
want to see how do we connect all of these lessons now and how does it go
into a full day like from the time you walk in the door what's the first thing
you do to going through measuring through show time to walking it out the
door so I made a couple of those videos already tests have been pretty good and
I'm gonna be doing more of those like in the field full tunings from beginning to
end so that'll be a new module in the future anyway that's the overview of
this course if you guys are interested feel free to post any questions on this
video and I hope to see you inside