Long & McQuade Learning Series - Windsor, ON

Thursday, March 19 | 6:30pm

PA System Operations 101
With Eric Ingalls

A tutorial for announcers, acoustic instruments, singer/songwriters, DJ gear, and basics for rock band.

Learn:

• Introduction to gear
• Powered speakers, power amps, mixers, and mics.
• Channel strips, basic flow
• Zeroing a mixer and gain staging
• Styles of cable: RCA, speaker, instrument, and mic
• Impedance matching
• Instrument, mic, DJ gear, drum machine, synth, piano, DI etc.
• Positioning the gear
• Feedback
• Room dimensions / orientation / material
• FX per channel
• 9 band EQ
• Monitors
• & more!

 

Friday, March 27 | 6:00pm

Synthesizer Workshop
With Mike Kovaliv

Learn:

• What is a synthesizer?
• History of the synthesizer
• Analog vs Digital synths
• Types of synthesizers, synth engines
• Hardware vs Software synthesizers
• Choosing a synthesizer that's right for you
• Sound design demonstration
• Using a synthesizer in modern music
   

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