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BRITANNIA ROW PRODUCTIONS TRAINING: LIVE SOUND TECHNOLOGY COURSE STARTS 4 MARCH Ex-graduates of Britannia Row Productions Training’s Live Sound Technology Course, now in its seventh year, are working all over the world on many of the top tours, events, corporate shows and presentations and musical theatre production.
The intensive 12 week full time course is delivered from South Thames College, Wandsworth and from Britannia Row Productions HQ in Twickenham. The course also includes gig visits. The facilities at South Thames include lecture rooms equipped with state-of-the art PA systems, recording studios, and a sports hall and theatre for trainees to work live with bands and musicians. The facilities at Britannia Row include training rooms and a brand new rigging gantry for PA flying training. The course covers the basics of acoustics and electrics and all aspect of live sound – microphones, mic & IEM wireless equipment, speaker systems and monitors and onto system design, prediction, analysis and optimisation. The ‘house consoles’ for the course are new DiGiCo SD10’s. Alongside DiGiCo, other console brands taught include SSL, Yamaha and Avid.
The 60 days of lectures and practical days are all delivered by live audio professionals working at the highest level in the industry. This is a unique aspect of the course. Also unique to the course are great mentoring and networking opportunities with people working at the top of the live sound industry. The Yamaha Corporation of Japan which has relationships with many top universities around the world to recruit top graduates has Identified the Live Sound Technology Course as the best available holistic short course in live sound. Yamaha are putting a contingent of Yamaha employees from Japan onto the 2019 course. This is the third consecutive year that Yamaha employees from Japan have attended the course. These employees have a variety of differing roles such as R&D engineers, design and production. Most trainees on this courses want fast, intensive and all-round education in live sound to get there first foot on their career ladder. Others students 20
