The Sound Kitchen - Great sound made easy
What you'll learn
- Be inspired like never before to pursuit great sound
- Understand sound better in a musical, scientific and philosophical sense
- Connect the language of music to the technical language of sound
- Form the mindset of the greats behind sound production (for both live and recording)
- Learn to select and use / position the right microphone for a given source
- Understand and practise electronic matching
- Learn to select and use / position the right microphone for a given source
- Use the equalizer with in-depth understanding
- Use the mixer correctly
- Learn to choose and use the correct PA for a given room
- Control feedback
- Build a mix
- Bring balance and beauty to a song
Requirements
- Great passion for music and sound (that is the first and main requirement)
- A DAW program is required, however a demo software is provided
- Preferably a decent pair of headphones
- Some basic understanding of math
- Optional (a small mixer for the mixer session)
Description
The Sound Kitchen is a sound engineering course aimed at anyone who is passionate about sound and wants to learn the how-to's of great sound. The course uses lots of music and it is both inspirational and technical; but make no mistake, you will have more than your money’s worth of technical insight and input.
The instruction is music based. Therefore there are always audio examples (there is also a lesson that will help you develop your hearing skills with audio clips you can download). We use a Digital Audio Workstation so that you can immediately put into practice the concepts expressed in some of the lessons, ending up making music (better) rather than just hearing someone talk about it. Furthermore, if you wanted to, you will be able to use the DAW (within the licensed time period) to exercise some sound engineering routines by yourself independently from the course.
The course is very practical and the terminology is not overly technical (again do not assume that this is a shortfall, as often seasoned engineers have learned a great deal from the course approach and teachings).
At the end of the course, you will be able to plan a sound production, choose well-suited equipment, set up a PA, and with practice, mix a production/song (live or in your home studio).
"Ears before gear": is a sentence I coined to embody the idea that the most important piece of equipment to achieve great sound is the engineer. Ultimately great gear will sound poorly if the engineer cannot use it well. The opposite is also true that average gear in the right hands will sound great. This mindset is thematic across the entire course.
The numbers
A total of almost 14 hours of video tuition
69 video clips
Manually entered Captions, so that everyone can understand every word
9 sections
9 quizzes (to help you review each section)
89 audio clips (to download) used for hearing training
2 DAW program available (PC and MAC) each with a tailor-made session
Multi-track songs performed by top South African musicians, recorded in a high-end studio in Cape Town, South Africa
Plenty of brain-stretching and ear developing DAW exercises
I am confident that you will learn a great deal and will enjoy doing so. I look forward to seeing you among my new students. Ciao. Tim
Who this course is for:
- The course is suitable for people with different knowledge and skill levels, ranging from people with no knowledge to people that work in this field.
- Musicians who want to understand sound engineering better
- Sound engineers
- Sound volunteers in churches/school
- People with some background knowledge that want to expand their understanding of sound engineering
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Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 985 Reviews
- 4,336 Students
- 4 Courses
With almost 4 decades of experience in event management on 3 continents, Timoteo Alicino is an invaluable source of knowledge, reliability and insight.
He has made it his goal to ensure that the productions (albums and live events) that saw his involvement not only happened but were a great success. He not only understands the complexity of putting together a production but he also fully grasps other important concepts: from budget constraints to working with volunteers. Even though he is used to working with world-class artists and equipment, he functions exceptionally well within other contexts.
Born and raised in Italy, Timoteo started off an illustrious career as a producer and musical director with the production ‘Breath of Heaven’, which toured through his home country in 1994. Prior to that, he worked as a vocalist in national and international concerts, including the ‘March for Jesus’ event in Italy and the International Christian Arts Seminar in De Bron, Netherlands. His work also included sound engineering on major rallies for international speakers since 1988.
In 1995, he joined All Good Gifts International, a South African production house. He was soon appointed as Director of Operations, worked as tour manager and technical director for all their appointments and tours, and engineered all live music events up until July 2004.
He devised a course on Sound Engineering called ‘The Sound Kitchen’, and has presented this at various seminars and conferences since 1995. Ten years later, it was recorded as an instructional DVD. Since 2005 he has been engineering for live broadcasts on TV, mixing for an audience of millions of people across the continent of Africa and beyond.
His work as a tour manager, sound engineer & teacher took him to a wealth of countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States of America, Israel, Ukraine and many European nations. He engineered, produced, mixed & mastered albums for various local- & international artists and speakers such as David Kramer, Albino Montisci (Italy), Rick Cua (USA), Patty Franklin (USA), Peter Helms (Canada), Wendy Oldfield, The Redial (Switzerland), Sara (Italy), Rediscovery (Italy/Holland), The Racabite Band (Holland), Piotr Pleka (Poland), Evan Schoombie (South Africa), The Billy Graham Assoc. (Italy), The Stele (Switzerland), Collage (USA), March for Jesus (Italy), Past Chris Olakan. (Nigeria), Kobus v. Rensburg, Anaconda (Argentina), Tom Hess (Jerusalem), Tommy Tenney (USA), Alvin Slaughter (USA), Mark Chironna (USA), Joseph Garlington (USA), Nico Battaglia (Italy), Planetshakers (Australia), Parachute Band (New Zealand), Israel Oughton (USA), Rocco de Villiers, Anton Goosen, Dirty Skirts, amongst many others.
It is easy to see why Timoteo is a renowned speaker. He regularly lectures in seminars in South Africa and abroad.
With more than 4 decades of experience in the field of sound engineering, he is an established consultant, educator and engineer.
As a sound engineer is work covered various aspects of sound engineering, recording, live performances (from intimate venues to sports stadiums) and system design. He also took it upon himself to completely research and plan the creation of the MMH Mastering studios.
His passion balances his attention to detail and accuracy.
Married since 2002, he and his wife Manda are also proud parents of two children.
Since 2006 Tim consulted and work as a process and system designer for various establishments, putting in place many solutions for companies that needed people-flow, logistical solutions, and digital creations.
In 2013 he started Accord, a school of Music in George, South Africa.