Who Am I - Troubleshoot Your Audio

Who Am I ?

My background

I’m a contemporary pianist that became passionate about technology from the love of the good sound and because I struggled during recording sessions due to technology failing.

I have been studying Jazz music composition and arrangment to later shift into more technical side of things.

I have designed and owned a few recording studios and also worked in a few like RecPublica Studios in Lubrza, Poland.

Recently I’ve been working for around 5 years as a support expert for audio solutions and a QA engineer for Pro Tools software solutions at AVID.

Currently I decided to go freelance with my audio consulting speciality to be able to spread knowledge and solve problems that often need a holistic approach and big picture analysis.

In a free time I do some studio and live mixing gigs to keep the gears (ears) moving.

Analysis

I always try to find the root cause of the issue by gathering and analysis of the relevant data.

Honesty

I do my best to be open and honest about my work.
I prefer to admit that something is not my scope and connect the client to relevant specialist if needed.

Audio Technology Training Advanced

This course covers the following topics:

Audio signal processing technology
Deeper dive into acoustics
- Sound – basic concept, preferences
- Sound wave reflections and their influence on perception
- Diffusion of sound waves
- Reverb, echo – basic concepts, preferences and their simulation
Electro-acoustic processing
- Electro-acoustic hardware
  - Microphones positioning
    - Proximity effect and using multiband compressors
    - Tips&Tricks
  - Preamps vs. converters
Software in audio mixing
- DAW Software – explanation of the concept and how it relates to live mixing
Deep dive into:
- Compressors/Expanders – parallel and sidechain, key filtering
- Gates – keying, filtering
- Panning
- Exciters
- Saturators
- Reverbs and using them for different purposes
Digital recording and sound processing
- Modern computer types and their topology
- Operating systems and their characteristics
- A/D and D/A converters – how they work and their properties
- Hardware and software audio processing
- Clocking and synchronization of digital hardware
- Recording and streaming audio – codecs, bandwidth etc.

Audio Technology Training Basic

This course covers the following topics:

Sound Engineering philosophy
- The Job
- Methods
- Good habits and what to remember
Audio signal processing technology
- Basics of acoustics
- Electro-acoustic hardware
  - Microphones
    - Types of microphones and brief description on how they work
    - Sound and directional characteristics
- Hardware in audio mixing
  - Brief description and rules
  - Hardware mixers – explanation of the concept
    - Audio Mixer structure
    - Audio channels and available parameters/tools
      - Faders
      - Busses
      - Parameters/tools
        
        Gain
        
        Equalizer
        
        Compressors – basic explanation
        
        Panning
        
        Auxes / Busses
        
        Effects
- Gain staging
- Amplifiers
- Speakers
Brief look at digital and network audio connections

Audio centric networking

Course tailored for specialists that deal with networking in audio/video environments.
Simplified and compressed knowledge without unnecessary details.

The course includes (depending on option you choose) topics like:

OSI Layers – brief description to help understanding how networking works from electrical connections up to computer applications (Layer 2 vs. Layer 3, IP vs. MAC)
ARP table
What are the IP addresses, subnets, subnet masks, gateways, VLans, and how to use them
What is DHCP
Specific IP ranges and their purpose
Ports vs. Interfaces
Specific TCP ports and their purpose
Most important protocols and services for AV (Discovery, Control, Clocking, AV streaming)
Zeroconf, Self assigned IP’s, mDNS, Bonjour
Unicast, Multicast, Broadcast
IGMP Snooping
AoIP protocols – (Dante – AES67, AVB – Milán)
Transmission synchronization (Clock)
Troubleshooting, tools
Workshop