Cape Audio College - The Institute of Sound Technology

As the leading Audio Training Institute in South Africa, Cape Audio College is proud to be the first to offer a course which focuses on the live sound environment, and confronts the particularly challenging demands of this fast paced industry.

Live entertainment offers a large variety of job opportunities to those who wish to enter, and there is more demand for live sound expertise today than ever before. This course offers a solid foundation for those wishing to work in entertainment, and provides real world experience.

The Course Director, Terence Collings, has been actively involved in the music industry for the last 11 years. He has gained experience both nationally and internationally, working with bands such as Freshlyground, the Rudimentals, Sons of Trout, McCully Workshop and Rodriguez. Terence has also worked on and managed various South African festivals, both as a Front of House Engineer and as a Monitor Engineer.

This course is the result of many years of planning and experimentation. The course format involves many workshops and practical's, and the student must attend real world live events as part of their tuition.

Career opportunities in Live Sound include Theatre Sound, AV engineering, Conferencing, Installations, Event Management, Live Music and Live Recordings. The course offered provides a deep knowledge of the gear involved and how to set it all up, how to take care of tuning the venue and finally running the event itself, whether it be a conference, a festival or a stage production. Guest lecturers from the industry will be invited to teach you many useful things, with the result that you will be fully prepared for anything you may encounter.

Learn the art of Recording
The Diploma Course offered by the Cape Audio College is the most acclaimed and respected
Audio training programme available in the country. Internationally recognized as a superior
institute, we also frequently train students

Successful St

udents
Over the past 15 years the Cape Audio College has trained a huge amount of talented people. Our graduates are working all over the world in top spots spanning all corners of the audio industry

Live and direct!
Last years Cape Audio College

Live and direct concert was held at none other than Cape Towns Leading live venue Mercury Live. Students and bands got down to business with this Mega live experience. Have a look at the gallery. Fun was had by all!

Knowledge of gear

Desks
Amplifiers
Speakers
Speaker Management Systems
Graphic Equalization
Multi-Cables
Splitter Racks
Microphones
Processing Gear

Setting up:

Organizing Gear
Speaker Placement
Stage Layout
Setting up front of house
Monitor Placement
Microphone Placement
Power Requirements

Systems Engineering

Choosing the right gear
Crossover settings
Room Tuning Methods
Monitor Equalization
Delay Methods

Engineering

Running Sound Checks
Conference Mixing
Theatre Mixing
Band Mixing
Monitor Mixing
Running a Festival
Trouble Shooting

Course Duration

12 weeks – Starting 11 March 2009, ending 15 July 2009.

Lecture Times:

Lectures will be held on Wednesday evenings from 18H00

- 21H00.

Practical Training:

Various arrangements will be made with venues around

Cape Town to do Practical training on Monday afternoons

and evening events.

Course Structure:

The course will be presented as a combination of theory lectures

and Practical Training in venues around Cape Town giving students

real world experience: