Orbital Sound Training - Sound Fundamentals for Theatre

Orbital's "Sound Fundamentals for Theatre" training course 2015 is taking place between 7th & 10th April, representing the 14th consecutive year that the Easter training week has been staged.

Across the four activity-packed days, students are tutored in a wide cross-section of essential skills for theatre sound, with Orbital's Richard Carter and Bill Addison at the helm. Orbital estimates that it has now helped prepare more than 300 theatre sound and technical theatre students for careers in live entertainment – with students drawn from across the UK's leading drama schools, as well as many freelancers and the corporate sector.

The training week is being held at Orbital's purpose-built Brixton training facility, with the course covering the following

• Theatre fundamentals, key concepts and system elements
• Audio processing, transmission and digital audio basics
• Communication and video workshop
• Sound design and production engineering for musicals
• Radio microphone systems
• Radio microphone fitting
• Safety and rigging fundamentals
• Electroacoustics
• Speaker choice and venue calculations
• Computer systems and controlling the show
• MIDI and show control
• Digital mixing
• Networking and wireless control systems