Guest Lecture on “Set-Up Audio Studio- Be an Entrepreneur” - Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts & Science (KCLAS)

Department of Visual Communication organized a Guest Lecture on “Set-Up Audio Studio- Be an Entrepreneur”.The Guest speaker was Mr.Debie Shajie, Audio Consultant & Assistant Professor, KITS, Coimbatore

Mr.Debie Shajie divided the session into four parts.

Basic Introduction to Sound and Audio

Basic Equipment’s related to Audio

How to Set-up Simple Audio Studio

How to be Entrepreneur in Audio Industry.

He started the session in explaining Wave, Frequency and other basic details of Sound & audio and made students to understand the basic terms and terminology. A simple round of question and answer session was conducted after the first round to familiarize the terms.

Second session went on with hands on experience in dealing with basic equipment’s. He explained the working of few equipment’s like audio interface, TRS cables, Headphones, etc. Student had chance see the demo of those equipment’s.

Set of Audio studio was explained in diagram and how it can be done in a simple way. He also explained the simple Acoustics to be used for better recording facility. All the type of Acoustics is explained. He also touched the area , how a simple room can be converted into audio studio with curtains as acoustics materials.

Final session saw the few interesting topics. Using intuitive live mixers that double as recorders, like the PreSonus Studio Live mixer , he explained how easily record a live concert directly to computer through the mixer’s pre-amps. With the mixer’s processors and effects that could even record, mix and upload the whole concert to the band’s website before the band stops partying. He also talked about a unique selling position. Portable P.A. system is a great way to offer services to the live sound community. The example : Start small with a simple system that can-do open mics and small bands and offer services to the surrounding coffee shops for instance. Make the value and make sure the coffee shops see the value in having open mics and small live concerts.