Sound System Design & Measurement

Sound Measurement Techniques, Principle and Advance Principles of Networking Courses available here…

Further details for each course are listed on this page. To register your interest in any of these training courses please follow the link to ‘Register Your Interest’, supply a few basic details and one of our course administrators will get in touch with you directly.

Sound Measurement Techniques

Learn how to measure the acoustic parameters that affect sound system performance and design.

The course will include live demonstrations and a hands-on session where participants get to make their own measurements.

You will learn...

How sound level meters work and which measurement parameters and settings to use.
Noise measurement terminology; A and C weighting curves, fast, slow integration times and Leq measurements.
Octave, 1/3 octave and narrow band frequency resolutions and their uses.
What ‘real time’ analysis can and cannot do.
How to make impulse response measurements and what these can tell you.
How to make reverberation time measurements and estimate reverberation times.
How rooms can affect sound and how to determine and quantify such effects.
Direct and reverberant soundfield analysis.
Critical distance and its importance in sound system measurement.
How to measure sound distribution and variation.
How to make speech transmission index measurements and verify the intelligibility.
Measuring the frequency response of a sound system.
Use of acoustic measurement apps and devices.

Who Should Attend?

If you are involved in the installation and testing of sound systems or voice alarm systems, this course is recommended for you.

Principles of Networking

Learn the essentials of networking with our assessed ‘Principles of Networking’ training course, run by Mark Faulks. Covering topics including network topologies, IP and MAC addressing, TCP vs UDP and network configuration.

You Will Learn...

Network types and technologies: their applications and limitations
Ethernet: the difference between switches and hubs, MAC addresses, full and half duplex
TCP/IP: UDP and TCP, addressing, subnets and routing
Network configuration: static vs DHCP, DNS, gateways and firewalls
Network design: building your own network
Network troubleshooting: identifying and resolving common problems
Wireless networks: RF spectrum and channel overlap, SSID, authentication and encryption
Network data structures: what makes up Ethernet frames and IP packets and how they work together
Data delivery: Unicast, Broadcast and Multicast

Who Should Attend?

This course is for anyone involved in specifying or configuring audio network devices.

Advanced Principles of Networking

Take your networking knowledge to the next level with our assessed ‘Advanced Principles of Networking’ training course, run by Mark Faulks. Covering topics including Spanning Tree, QoS, SNMP and redundancy.

You Will Learn...

Maximising available bandwidth
Improving network reliability through redundancy
Prioritising audio data to maintain audio quality
Network security
Monitoring

Key Topics Covered...

Spanning Tree (including RSTP and MSTP)
Link Aggregation
VLAN
QoS (including CoS and DSCP)
SNMP

Who Should Attend?

Anyone involved in setting up networks for real-time audio and video applications and already has a good understanding of the basics of Ethernet and IP. Ideally, delegates should have previously attended the Principles of Networking course or be familiar with the material covered.

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