Working in conjunction with US distributor Group One Limited, DiGiCo has launched a series of educational training seminars: DiGiCo’s Master Series: From Power On to Expert.
Orland’s Full Sail Live hosted the inaugural seminar, hosted by DiGiCo/Group One’s audio trainers, National Sales Manager Matt Larson and Technical Sales & Support Ryan Shelton. More than 90 people attended, including systems integrators, audio consultants, production companies, houses of worship and performing arts centre operators, as well as Full Sail students and faculty.
Two days of tutorials allowed them to get hands-on with virtually all of DiGiCo’s SD Series consoles (SD5, SD Ten, SD11, 3xSD9s, and an SD8). The training spanned basic system set-up and cabling, to features and operation, as well as a hardware and software review. DiGiCo’s new SD (v621) software was showcased on several of the consoles, adding 96kHz capacity to the SD9 and SD11 on Cat5E as well as a offering a new Madi Router for all SD consoles.
Recording engineers Howard ‘Howie’ Lindeman and Mark Frink were answered questions and shared their real-world experience and road stories. Lindeman, who is currently on tour with The Elvis Presley Concert Tour, has mixed in many studios from the Record Plant to the Hit Factory, and toured with Roberta Flack, Natalie Cole and others. Frink is currently mixing monitors on a DiGiCo SD10 for the Zac Brown Band.
‘Our goal with the new Master Series is to take people wherever they need to go, whether they’re already owners of our consoles or just thinking about investing in one,’ Shelton says. ‘These hands-on training opportunities will take the intermediate to advanced production engineer deeper into our systems, provide a tool kit to sharpen their mixing skills, offer helpful tips, tricks and shortcuts for using our consoles and impart information as to what sets DiGiCo apart from the competition.’
‘The DiGiCo Master Class brought us together for one major purpose: DiGiCo consoles,’ Lindeman says. ‘The workshop gave us an understanding of what is new, what is coming, and the inner workings of these kick-butt consoles. Having each of the console models at our reach was invaluable in being able to understand the differences of each of their personalities – from the frame and up. Not only was it informative, but we had laughs and dinner too.’
