Operating the Audio Mixer, A Beginning Sound Engineer Course

This course provides a no-nonsense approach for beginning audio engineers, allowing them to quickly learn to operate a professional audio mixer. The course is great for all beginning band, venue and church sound engineers and it covers all of the basic features of mixing boards and exactly how to implement them. There is no filler in this course.

Every minute is packed full of valuable information. This course focuses on using analog mixing consoles in live sound applications. It is beneficial for a beginning sound engineer to learn to use an analog mixer before applying that knowledge to digital mixer operation because digital mixers are primarily based on the emulation of analog controls.

When you complete this course, you will know the basic workings of operating an analog audio mixer. In the future, if you decide to pursue either digital mixer operation or computer recording using programs like Pro Tools and Logic, this knowledge will give you a head start. It will help you learn those platforms much quicker as well.

The first three video lectures explain each component of a mixing board (control knobs, faders, buttons, etc. ). The next three lectures show you exactly how to use those components.