The Calrec Sound Institute is a series of online certification training courses being offered by UK manufacturer Calrec, beginning with courses covering two of the company’s most widely used digital audio consoles – Brio and Type R. These educational courses provide a comprehensive overview of Brio and Type R consoles for engineers and operators, as well as experienced professionals looking to hone their skills.
The courses cover hardware, I/O, routing, mix minus, buses and monitoring, and are designed to get users up and running quickly and with confidence. Once the training is completed, users are certified by Calrec for Brio and/or Type R systems.
‘We have always had an open-door training policy at Calrec, but Covid-19 has significantly shifted the broadcast landscape and it’s our responsibility to help customers develop with tools that can be accessed remotely, says Calrec Director of Product Development, Henry Goodman. ‘As workflows continue to evolve, online training courses are increasingly important to help customers learn key products and be able to show that they have done so via certification.’
Calrec will expand its online training service with a series of detailed AoIP masterclasses that cover everything a broadcast facility needs to know about IP, how it works and the effect it is having on our industry.
‘IP is a complicated subject; our new course will break IP down into independent and objective modules which we hope will enable broadcasters to make IP decisions with confidence,’ Goodman adds. ‘It is a very broad course which covers the basics through to PTP, Multicast and the importance of intelligent network design.’
Alongside the Brio and Type R courses, Calrec also offers free operator manuals for every Calrec product, a 66-page basic introduction to Calrec functionality and applications called the Audio Primer, the Summa Training Course (comprising a series of 66 step-by-step video tutorials) and the Cleaning Guide with recommendations for cleaning Calrec equipment.
