HARMANs Soundcraft Si Expression 3 Console Provides an Educational Experience at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
EDWARDSVILLE, Illinois - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is a 4-year public university whose Department of Theater and Dance offers a broad variety of academic courses and practical experience in Performance, Dance, Design and Technical Theater, Theater Education and Theater History/Literature/Criticism. In order to stay on top of theater audio technology, SIUE department chair Jim Wulfsong needed to upgrade to a digital live sound console, and found the HARMAN Soundcraft Si Expression 3 ideal as both a production and educational tool.
At SIUE, performances and education are intertwined, said Wulfsong, who teaches a number of courses at SIUE including live sound engineering. My students start by taking courses in theatrical audio production and live sound-and then they soon move up to doing the front of house mixing of an actual performance. Productions are held at SIUEs main theater, where the Si Expression 3 is installed.
Wulfsong needed a console that offers the latest features to accommodate the requirements of professional theatrical production-and could stand up to the rigors of constant use. The students learn on the console day in and day out during the academic year, and activity gets particularly intense during Tech Week, the week before a show debuts when the technical staff finalizes the shows mic requirements, live and pre-recorded audio cues and other audio needs.
One of the key reasons Wulfsong chose the Soundcraft Si Expression 3 is because he and his students needed flexibility in a console that wasnt difficult to operate. The console is primarily used by students, who, while eager and talented, arent pros yet. The Si Expression 3 lets them work out in advance and store almost everything thats needed before the show-cues, levels, EQ and so on-which greatly reduces the students stress level once the curtain goes up. The Si Expression 3 lets his students concentrate on listening to the sound-rather than constantly have to think three steps ahead about what they have to do next. Sometimes it seems like we can get any slider and knob to do anything we want.
One of the main uses for the console is to play back cues and sound effects for musicals using QLab multimedia playback software. There can be hundreds of cues in a show and Wulfsong finds the Si Expression 3 makes moving from one cue to the next easy. The Next button on the console responds really fast, which is critical when you have almost no time to kill a cue or mute and unmute different combinations of every single onstage mic.
Thanks to the consoles sophisticated panning capabilities and multiple stereo and mono busses, Wulfsong and his students can now do fancy Hollywood sound effects like having planes fly overhead and sound effects following the onstage action-all at the touch of a button.
Wulfsong finds the ability to apply EQ on every channel to be a major feature. Every input-processing channel on the Si Expression 3 has dedicated processing not only for four-band EQ, but also high-pass filter, input delay, gate and compressor, enabling precise sonic fine-tuning of every input. Another plus is the consoles smaller size. Wulfsong thought that moving to a more advanced console would require more space in the control room, but the Si Expression 3 is actually smaller than the previous console and gave room to install a bigger computer monitor.
In fact, Wulfsong originally was looking for a console to replace the board in SIUEs smaller theater-and wound up using the Si Expression 3 in the big room. I was stunned by the price point and value the Si Expression 3 offered-and once we got it in-house we realized we were going to be using it as our main console in the theater.
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HARMANs Soundcraft Si Expression 3 Console Provides an Educational Experience at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 
