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A day with the Truth - SEA Feb - 2012 - 2013 Batch

The Live Sound Wizard "Tennyson" in his SC-48 Sound Board

Electro-Voice (Ev) product training & demo at Sound Engineering Academy

There is no need to introduce Ev range audio products for a person who is associated with Sound Engineering or those who follow the industry. It is one of the best in yet advanced and reliable means of audio devices in the world. The product range of Ev is being used by lots of sound engineers around the world.

Last week we at Sound Engineering Academy have introduced this worlds legendary pro-audio company in the campus. An exclusive product training has been organized for our students. The training session lasted for 2 days and covered topics from microphones to the cutting edge Line Array designing. Its was a great learing experience for our students in the most advanced audio technology.

Students and all Staff of Sound Engineering Academy takes this opportunity Thanks Ev India & Mr Gautham N D ( South India Sales In Charge).

System Tuning & Drum Micking By Arun Madhavan

 

SEA Students had a very unique training on audio system tuning and drum micking. Smart Live software was used as the RTA analyzing platfrom. We use digital console, Dbx crossovers, HK line array for top & Ev live X-18"as subwoofers. For Drum miking we used an entire Ev line up. It was 2 day training & was handled by Mr.Arun Madhav - the leading live sound engineer from Hyderabad. Awesome Experience!!!

We at sound engineering academy believe that a student who is passing out from here must have a hands on experience on all the latest sound engineering techniques and equipments. Sound Engineering Academy have always organised interesting yet informational session for lifting the level of knowledge of the students. As part of this we have organised this session on audio system tuning and drum micking.  

Latest invention In Sound : Flat Flexible Speakers that Produce a Clear Sound

 A loudspeaker, which is less than 0.25mm thick, is the latest invention in technologypresented by engineers from University of Warwick. The device is flexible and can be easily hung up a wall in an apartment or, due to its specific technique of producing sound, it can be used as a way of making clear public announcements in different places, such as, for example passenger terminals. Besides being extremely lightweight, this latest technological invention does not require huge investments. Slim and flexible, such speakers can be installed in ceiling tiles or inside vehicles.

Warwick Audio Technologies, is a spin-out company that says its device generates planar directional sound waves in public places. These waves project further than sound produced by usual speakers. Engineers dubbed their latest invention Flat, Flexible Loudspeaker (FFL). According to the company's CEO, Steve Couchman, the revolutionary speaker could completely replace the conventional speakers that are nowadays used in homes, cars and public places such as passenger terminals and shopping centers.

"Audio visual companies are investigating its use as point of sale posters for smart audio messaging and car manufacturers are particularly interested in it for its light weight and thinness," he said.
The flexible speaker works by transforming an electric signal into sound. In conventional speakers the signal is used to produce a varying magnetic field that vibrates a mechanical cone, thus making the sound. However, the technology behind the flexible speaker connects thin, conducting and insulating, materials that create a flexible laminate. When an electrical signal excites the laminate, it vibrates, so generating sound.

An Audio Timeline

Every wondered about the history of sound / audio engineering and recording. In todays post we  care going to showcase some of the significant events, inventions, products and their purveyors,from phonograph cylinder to the latest invention like Blu-Ray Disk which has changed sound / audio industry. 

Year	Physical format	Content format
1870s	Phonograph cylinder	Analog; "hill-and-dale" grooves, vertical stylus
1895	Gramophone record	Analog; lateral grooves, horizontal stylus
1898	78rpm or 78s	disc first produced around 1898; popular from 1910-1950s; by 1910 actual speed ranged from about 78 to 80 rpm; size was 10 or 12 inches
1930s	Wire recording	Analog
1940s	Reel-to-reel tape Magnetic tape	Analog
1948	Vinyl record	Analog; lateral grooves, horizontal stylus also known as LP or long-playing records
1957	Stereophonic vinyl record	Analog; lateral/vertical stylus (each channel encoded 45 degrees to vertical)
1963	Audio cassette	Analog; 1/8 in. tape width; 1 7/8 ips popular in the US through the 1990s
1964	8-track tape	Analog; 1/4 in. tape width; 3 3/4 ips in an endless loop cartridge
1969	Microcassette	Analog
1970		Dolby noise reduction introduced (cassettes)
1975	Betamax digital audio	"Dolby Stereo" cinema surround sound
1982	Compact disc	Digital; usually 4 3/4 in. diameter first available in Japan in October 1982, in Europe in February 1983, and in the US in March 1983
1985	CD-ROM
1987	Digital audio tape (DAT)	cassette version of the CD; used in the recording industry until 2000; DAT players ceased production in 2005
1990s	Digital compact cassette
1991	MiniDisc
1992		WAVEform (WAV) Dolby digital surround cinema sound
1993		Dolby theatre system (DTS) Sony dynamic digital sound (SDDS)
1995		MP3
1996	DVD
1999	Streaming audio
1999	Super audio CD (SACD)	Windows media audio (WMA) (higher sampling rate, spatial sound capability)
2000	DVD-Audio
2004	DualDisc	CD on one side, DVD on the other
2006	Blu-ray Disc	Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio

Related Images with regard to the history of Sound / Audio Engineering.

 

 

TIMELINE -- DEVELOPMENT OF FILM AND SOUND ON FILM

1870s -- Eadweard Muybridge -- Movement of a horse stop action photography on glass plates. Done with multiple cameras designed so that a horse's foot would trip each shutter.

1882 -- Frenchman Etienne-Jules Marey designed a camera to record 12 separate images on a single strip of film. In 1888 he designed the first flexible film.

1889 -- Eastman Kodak introduces celluoid flexible film base

1888 -- Thomas Alva Edison meets with Edweard Muybidge and purchases 90 of his plates to begin experimenting with moving pictures. His intention was to couple live action with the sound produced by his phonograph.

Late 1880s -- Edison commissions William Kennedy Laurie Dickson to build a film camera. Dickson develops the Kinetograph which coupled recorded images with phonographic sound. The final result in 1892, the peep show penny arcades which were first installed in 1894.
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson conducted many experiments with the Kinetograph. One of the earliest surviving experiments is his film of co-worker Fred Ott's "Sneeze":
         
1895 -- Louis and Auguste Lumiere present the first film projector -- the Cinematographe.

1896 -- Edison produces a film projector developed by Thomas Armat and C. Francis Jenkins and exploited by vaudeville peep show promoters Norman C. Raff and Frank R. Gammon. This projector was called the Vitascope.

April 1896 -- First public movie theatre -- the Theatre Robert Houdin -- operated by magician and photographer Georges Melies in Paris using a modified British projector developed initially by Robert William Paul. Meleis became known for developing the world's first "trick" photography with cut edits and disolves. 1902 he produced Jules Verne's A Trip To The Moon 14 minutes long and three times the length of any previous film. This also demonstrated Melies genius for editing with 30 separate scenes.

1902 -- 1926 : The era of the silent film while inventors including Edison sought to link sound mechanically with moving film images.
1904 -- Frenchman Eugene Lauste records sound onto a piece of photographic film

1907 -- 1913 various fim and sound inventions included the Vivaphone, Synchroscope, the Chronophone, the Cameraphone and the Cinephone. Edison produced the Kinetophone in 1913 -- a "Rube Goldberg" device of belts and pulleys and received boos for his efforts at Keith's Union Square theatre in New York City.

19teens -- Western Electric develops along with Lee DeForest (1906 Audion) a method or recording and reproducing sound electronically on disc. Western Electric Buought the rights to the use of the Audio for amplifying the phonographic sound.

1921 -- DeForest improves the method of recording sound on film and patents a new invention he calls the phonofilm.

September 1925 -- Warner Bros. contracts with the AT&T method of sound with film and releases its first sound with film pictures in 1926 using a system dubbed theVitaphone. Don Juan, released in 1926 was the first film to inlcude music on an amplified sound- track.

October 1927 -- The Jazz Singer featuring Al Jolson is released by Warner Bros. Not an immediate hit in New York, but it gained long-lasting fame when it moved into America's heartland. It was rebooked in 1928 in New York and grossed $100,000 a week.

May 1927 -- Fox Film Corporation works with a new AT&T development -- sound on film. Fox uses this system to produce newsreels which would play prior to feature films at theatres.The first big publicity coups was the flight of Charles Lindbergh across the Atlantic. Also memorable was the capturing of the explosion of the Hindenburg. These newsreel shorts became known as the Movietone News.

May 1928 -- the major film companies (Paramount, Loews/MGM, First National and United Artists) sign with AT&T to produce pictures with sound on film despite the introduction of a competing format developed by RCA.

End of 1920s -- only a few theatres in America's largest cities continued to maintain a house orchestra and organist.

September 1928 -- Warner Bros. releases The Singing Fool -- again starring Al Jolson. Tickets for the first night were $11.00. "Sonny Boy" and "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" from the film became the first million selling record of the "talkie" era. The Singing Fool cost $200,000 to produce but drew an unprecedented $5,000,000.

Group Violin recording conducted in Sound Engineering Academy, Campus

It was unforgettable yet fascinating event for the Sound Engineering Academy in Trivandrum which showcased the great composition of legendary violinist Chidambaranath. The event was a thrilling occasion for all the music lovers, students and officials of Sound Engineering Academy

In the live recording of this violin play about 15 violinists joined the recording. The Senior Violinist Mr Chithambaram does the orchestration & Conduction. Recording take place at SEA – Studio. Yamaha 02R Digital  Audio Console was used and ProTools 8.4 Was used as Digital Audio Workstation. Condenser microphones of AKG, Shure & Audio-Technica  were used.

The microphone placement was challenging. All the calibrations were done properly and executed a successful Recording. The Recorded Tracks Sounds Amazing. The percussion & Vocal Sessions to be completed.

Find images of this rare and unique event below

 

 

Learn To Listen The Music

Usually the music is played while we clean the house or wash clothes. It is in the background, but we do not actually listen to it. To really enjoy 'good' music of any genre we must really listen to it. Sit down, have a cup of coffee or a drink of choice, and listen. You will be amazed at how enjoyable this can be.

Listen to music that might be new to you, or that you wished you could understand. Try a light opera, or perhaps an instrumental music. Do not think of anything else. This is a time to listen, enjoy and relax. You are going to try to develop a mental map of the music.

Understand that in musical composition, there are three main technical ideas:
-o- Repetition
-o- Variation
-o- New Melodies

Listen, and try to notice whether what you are hearing is the same as what you have previously heard in the same piece. Identify the elements:

Learn that the introduction, or beginning of a piece is always new. There is very often also something new very near the end. Locate passages that you find especially rewarding. Are these passages repetitions, variations, or new? If they are variations, can you realize what it was that was varied?5

Listen once more to the same passage. This time, pay attention to what brings the music to these passages. Listen to as many details as you can.
-o- Colors
-o- Balances
-o- Textures of the different sounds of which music is composed.

Try to isolate specific details:
-o- Rhythms, whether in the foreground or background, that seem to interact
-o- Short melodic figures, either in the principal melody
 -o- Accompaniment.


Listen again, narrowing your focus: listen only to the bass, if there is one. Notice things in the bass that seem alive, pregnant with meaning. Notice all the details you previously noticed by switching your attention from one to the other.

Develop your mental map of the characters, actors and energies that combine to create music. If these steps are correctly followed, the result will be a panoramic expansion of your musical experience, which may be likened to listening in color.

A session on theatre art for Students in Sound Engineering Academy

SEA August 2011 Batch Students had a Session On  “ THEATRE ART “ By   RAJESH CHANDRAN. T.T

*Former Director – Children’s Theatre

 Abinaya Theatre Research Centre & International theatre group

*Former Head of  Theatre Art 

 TVS Academy, Bangaloor

*Presently Working As programme in charge of IGNOU Theater Art Department at  Abhinaya

He is a 1^st rank holder in his Masters in Theater Art.

>Acted about 70 major productions, and directed 34 plays

>Written 15 children’s plays.

>Participated and organized many theatre workshops all over India

>Undergone training programs from many eminent Theatre Directors in and abroad.

>Represented Kerala in the Natya Samarch held at “Kozhikode”  and Rengayana,

  Mysore, Young Directors Scheme, organized by cultural ministry, Govt. of India

Session on Theatre Art in Sound Engineering Academy

Session on Theatre Art in Sound Engineering Academy

Session on Theatre Art in Sound Engineering Academy

First launch of Live- X ELX118P in Kerala and SEA

Electro-Voice(Ev) a branch of BOSCH  USA is a leading professional audio equipment manufactures. http://www.electrovoice.com/family.php?id=145 Ev Live-X series is a hallmarked series in its line up. Live- X ELX118P the 18" powered subwoofer launched in SEA campus. 

Its the first launch of Live- X ELX118P in Kerala & SEA is proud to become its first owner in the state.

ELX118P -  Ev - 18" Powered Subwoofers 

Designed for Pro Music, and other applications.

• 18” woofer for powerful, engaging bass response
• 32 Hz – 130 Hz frequency range; 134 dB max SPL
• 700 W Class D lightweight amplifier — runs cool without fans
• Rugged wood cabinet — supports pole-mounted or stacked configurations

Specification 

Case Material	9-ply, 15mm Plywood, Internally Braced, with Textured Paint
Frequency Response (-3 dB)	42 Hz - 100 Hz Hz
Frequency Response (-10 dB)	32 Hz - 130 Hz Hz
Max. SPL/1m (calc)	134 dB
Coverage (Nominal -6 dB) H	Omnidirectional °
Coverage (Nominal -6 dB) V	Omnidirectional °
LF Transducer	(1) EVS-18K, 457mm (18") Woofer
HF Transducer	N/A
Crossover Frequency	100 Hz
Connector Type	(1) XLR/TRS Combo Jack, (1) XLR Link Output
Grill	18GA Steel with Black Powdercoat
Height	661 mm (26.02")
Width	507 mm (19.96")
Depth	574 mm (22.6")
Weight Net	31.7 kg (69.89 lbs)

Legendary Violinist Chidambaranath Visited Sound Engineering Academy

The senior most and legendary violinist Mr Chithambaranath visited SEA campus. He had been in the professional music industry for decades and is very famous for his unique playing style. Had had an interaction with some of our music club students. Had a jamming with some vocalist in the campus. The exiting thing is that he selected one of our student Miss Anulekshmi to sing in his new composition. It is a great experience for our students to interact and work with such a great talent

Sound Engineering Course Admission in Kerala India for the year 2012

Sound Engineering Academy invites application for its 16th batch. The batch will be commencing by February 2012 and the academic year will be February 2012-2013. As an exclusive professional Audio engineering campus SEA is top rated campus in India for Sound Engineering & Sound Recording Programmes. To know more log on to ww.seaindia.in.

Application Processing period - 2011 November to December 

Application Submitting Procedure can be viewed on http://www.seaindia.in/admission.php

Course offered by Sound Engineering Academy is certified by IGNOU and ISO certified.

Sound Engineering Academy was started in the year 2004 and in the past several years we have updated our sound sound engineering syllabus so that students learns the latest developments and technical know-how in the sound engineering industry. With our updated syllabus and unique way of learning our students are getting placed in top companies. We have a record of more than 96% placement since 2004 which is a great achievement in the sound engineering training industry.

Share this with all your friends so those who are interested in pursuing a career in the world of sound don't miss this excellent opportunity.

Tool used by World Renowned Sound Professionals - Avid Pro Tools 10

We know that sound editing and its blissful creation is your passtion and there is none in the world who doesn't like music. Since Rasul Pookutty has bagged the Oscar Award in the Best Sound Mixing Category, the sound engineering industry has taken a big leap forward in india. Many of the youngsters are choosing sound engineering as their profession and almost everyone of them is getting placed in the best media companies in the world.

Professional sound editing tools play an important role in the field of sound editing and its creation. Sound Engineers are using using different kinds of tools / softwares jobs related with sound. Those who are enthisiastic about sound engineering and who have passed the sound engineering course in Sound Engineering Academy will be well aware of AVID pro sound editing tools.

We know that as a sound engineering you do it all in sound using this sound editing tool. Does your workstation on which you are working is added with updated version of AVID Pro Tools. You will be amazed by the quality of sound created by renowned Sound Engineering Professional around the world. You can get the same high-quality sound you hear on your favorite albums and film/TV soundtracks using the same tools chosen by the pros—Pro Tools® . Now with the latest and updated version of new Pro Tools 10 software, you can achieve a higher resolution sound, faster than ever.

With the latest and new generation tool one can * Capture and mix performances in up to 32-bit, 192 kHz resolution *Compose, record, edit, and mix with proven industry-standard tools * Get best-in-class sound with over 75 virtual instruments and effects plug-ins * Create great-sounding, phase-accurate mixes with Automatic Delay Compensation. Visit http://www.avid.com/ for more details about the software and its latest features.

About Audio Engineering

Audio engineering is a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including electronics, acoustics, psychoacoustics, and music. An audio engineer is proficient with different types of recording media, such as analog tape, digital multitrack recorders and workstations, and computer knowledge. With the advent of the digital age, it is becoming more and more important for the audio engineer to be versed in the understanding of software and hardware integration from synchronization to analog to digital transfers.

Audio engineering concerns the creative and practical aspects of sounds and music, in contrast with the formal engineering discipline known as acoustical engineering. Producer, engineer, mixer Phil Ek has described audio engineering as the "technical aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, the turning of pre-amp knobs, the setting of levels. The physical recording of any project is done by an engineer... the nuts and bolts. Many recording engineers also invented new technology, equipment and techniques, to enhance the process and art.

Find more details about audio engineering at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_engineering

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