This course is designed to give a learner an understanding of the professional audio environment with sufficient skills to begin
to play a useful role in such an environment, be it live sound, recording or radio studios.
It also serves as a thorough orientation in this field, allowing the learner to make more informed career choices.
Wherever possible the content has been aligned with registered unit standards in the interests of quality and usefulness to the learner.
Overall Learning Outcomes:
The course is designed to equip learners to:
• Operate basic audio equipment with reference to user manuals.
• Understand the working principles and purpose of basic audio system components.
• Connect simple audio systems together.
• Perform simple trouble shooting tasks – isolate faulty component at equipment level in a system and give basic diagnosis of problem.
• Perform and interpret basic measurements of level, distortion and frequency response.
• Make up cables and do basic wiring.
• Communicate effectively with peers, users and technical experts verbally and in writing using correct terminology.
• Apply listening skills to identify common faults (eg distortion, phase, freq. resp. errors, overdriving)
and understand quality references (know what good sound sounds like)
• Be aware of the limits of their knowledge and expertise.
• Be curious and enquiring, committed to independent self development and keeping abreast of developments in their filed of work.
