DiGiCo SD Aids the Next Generation Of Australian Audio Engineers

When teaching students audio mixing, it makes sense to use the equipment that is featured on contemporary music. This has twin benefits - ensuring they leave education well versed in the equipment they will encounter in the professional world, and learning with the familiarity of sound from the music they listen to every day. These are two important reasons why the Australian College of the Arts has invested in a DiGiCo SD11.

A tertiary music college based in South Melbourne, it teaches degree-level courses in Audio Production, Music Performance and Creative Industries Management. Featuring two live rooms, a post-production studio and two fully-equipped labs for production and composition, when it was time to replace the facility's existing analogue mixing console, the DiGiCo SD11 stood out as the ideal choice.

Supplied by local pro audio specialists Soundcorp, the SD11 ticked all the boxes for the college's Associate Dean and Head of Audio, Dr Paul Doornbusch. "Young people these days have grown up listening to digital recordings and CDs, so thats the sound they expect to hear - whether it's live or recorded, he says. The first time I heard the SD11 I said Oh yes - thats the sound!

The onboard Stealth Digital Processing and floating point Super FPGA technology meant that the college could also dispense with the outboard gear used with the old console, while having the power and high audio quality of DiGiCo's flagship consoles used by the audio engineers of acts like George Michael, Lionel Richie, U2, Robbie Williams, Metallica and Justin Timberlake.

Most importantly, while having enough input channels and aux groups to produce fairly complex productions, the SD11's compact control surface made it approachable, rather than intimidating students with a large fader and rotary control-filled surface.

"It made complete sense to go with the SD11, says Paul. The students love it, they have seen it used in concerts, and the recall functions and FX make it really easy to show them whats going on."

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IMAGE: Dr Paul Doornbusch - Associate Dean & Head Of Audio - Australian College Of Arts

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