Sound Department Completes Significant Upgrades

Over the summer, the sound department added new hardware and upgraded its facilities to retain its state-of-the-art status.

• Digidesign Pro Tools hardware and software systems were upgraded to the latest HD version in all rooms.
• New Digital Production Sound Kits for the 546N and 480 classes were purchased and assembled featuring the Fostex FR-2 hard disk recorder and the Sound Devices 442 Mixer.  Students will be able to record production sound, edit and mix their final tracks without having to leave the digital domain.
  
• The Dub B mix stage/classroom was fully remodeled.  Famed acoustician George Augsberger consulted on the project.  New fiberglass panels were installed on the walls and ceilings.  Digidesign’s latest mixing control surface, a 24 channel D-Command, is the centerpiece of the rooms.  It sits atop a custom designed desk by KK Audio.  12 Klispsch RSX surr9ound speakers along with a state-of-the-art Denon 5805 surround receiver (with design input from Cinema-Television professor and developer of THX, Tomlinson Holman) were also installed.