High School Sound guide

[brubart]

Here are some articles on various aspects of theater sound that might be helpful for your guide, or might be some good reference material. You might need to copy and paste each URL into your browser, rather than clicking on each link.

Preventing Wireless-Mic Dropouts | L2PNet.com
[Preventing wireless mic dropouts] In that article I said to avoid the 700 MHz band from 700-800 MHz, but it's actually 698-806 MHz.


http://www.bartlettmics.com/newsletter/newsletter 8-11.pdf
[Setting up headworn mics]


http://www.bartlettmics.com/newsletter/newsletter 3-11.pdf
[Improving a high school theater sound system]


http://www.bartlettmics.com/newsletter/newsletter 6-11.pdf
[Amplifying children in theater productions]

http://www.bartlettmics.com/newsletter/newsletter 4-11.pdf
[Beginner's guide to audio connections]

 

[LavaASU]

Hey Zack,

I'm working on putting together a textbook of sorts to use with a couple of elementary and middle school programs at which I teach. Would you be willing to let me use part of your guide for that? Of course I'll give you credit. I just would like to take out the parts that are way beyond what I'm teaching so as to not confuse the kids.

 

[museav]

I'm working on putting together a textbook of sorts to use with a couple of elementary and middle school programs at which I teach.

Semantics, but when I see "textbook" I think an authoritative reference written by subject matter experts and often vetted by other subject matter experts. The professional industries now constantly have to address the large number of less than authoritative 'reference' books and documents that proliferate due to the Internet and self publishing, including those that are compilations of or based on other such works. I'm not trying to discourage anyone, just recommending being careful of what you use as the basis for such documents and how they are presented.

 

[standup]

Hey Zack,

I'm working on putting together a textbook of sorts to use with a couple of elementary and middle school programs at which I teach. Would you be willing to let me use part of your guide for that? Of course I'll give you credit. I just would like to take out the parts that are way beyond what I'm teaching so as to not confuse the kids.

Feel free to use whatever you want. Out of curiosity, what do you teach elementary school kids? Or is it more for the parents/ volunteers?

Also, I agree with Brad, textbooks are more of a "This is how the world works" kinda book, at least from technical standpoint. What I'm writing isn't meant to be that in anyway. It's more of a reference and a jumping off point for how to get into live sound. I know I haven't put an up to date version on here in a while but I'm really trying to gear the inner workings toward our particular system. If I ever get around to putting a more updated copy on here, it wouldn't be alot of help, at least as far as working the system goes.