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Fitri, Samuel, Leonard and Fadzil
will be doing a community engagement with the Institute of Technical Education College East to teach and share their knowledge on live audio and studio mixing.

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Fadzil conducted a brief introduction to recording techniques in the recording studio, such as microphone placement, gain staging and balancing of tonal qualities. He taught the students the importance of being able to get the perfect sound, right from the source.

Reflection:

This activity taught the students the importance of spending more time to get the perfect sound from the source, instead of " fixing it in the mixing stage ". I feel that this will allow them to be more precise and meticulous with their work.
During the session there were times where i felt that I had difficulty describing certain words and processes to them because these students have very little background in audio terminologies, in which may seem common to us engineers. I feel like that's an area I can further improve on.

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Samuel conducted a walk around tour of using a mixing desk for the students. He also taught the students the basic of navigating around a digital mixing console.

Reflections
This activity benefitted the students by learning hands on experience on how a digital console works and how is it different from analog boards.
An area of improvement would be to explain to them more of the console concepts like the graphics EQs and built in effects.
There would definitely be a area to expand more which is to cover more in depth uses of digital audio in a live and studio environment.

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Fitri Shahrain conducted a introduction to their new Allen&Heath GLD80 console and explain to them the basic signal flow and also explain to them how the Dante network works and how to connect their equipment using the Dante system

Reflection
I could be more presentable and have my slide ready and expect to have a bigger class then as said to be only 15 but there was about 25

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Leo conducted a brief introduction to studio mixing, using the Avid C24 and a rudimentary Pro Tools 7 LE setup. He demonstrated and explained elementary concepts of mixing such as balance, EQ, compression, and reverb.

Reflection
It was a wonderful experience teaching the students at ITE college west. I hope that our little workshop has managed to spark some sort of interest or passion for the sound industry, whether it be studio or live. One challenge we faced was in how we approached the delivery of information. I felt that if we understood their backgrounds a little more specifically, we could have delivered the information in a more interesting and engaging way.