Los Angeles - SoundGirls FOH Workshop

This workshop covers various Front of House system design and scenarios. Topics include designing the PA, software prediction, coverage over SPL, time alignment, sub-woofer configurations, and coverage gaps. This is an intermediate course and will help professionals to hone their skills.

January 13
Rat Sound Systems
486 Constitution Ave.
Camarillo, CA 93012
$50
Instructor Ivan Ortiz
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Designing your PA

How much PA
Venue Limitations
Budget constraints
Using Prediction Software accurately

Soundvision (L-Acoustics)
Other manufacturers (d&b, EAW, etc.)
Coverage over SPL

What is your ultimate goal?
PA Zones
How to group your PA to target specific areas
Time Alignment

Using Smaart as tool
Tuning Techniques
Pink, Song, Voice
Subwoofer configurations

Cardioid, Standard, Block
Filling the gaps of coverage

Speaker placement
About Ivan Ortiz

Ivan Ortiz is a veteran, with over 18 years of experience in professional audio – gaining his education working for a small sound company that specialized in Latin acts while attending Full Sail. After he graduated he headed to the west coast – taking an internship at Rat Sound Systems and his “can do attitude” led to weekend work with several Los Angeles based sound companies. Ivan would go on to tour as a system tech for Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World, Pepe Aguilar and toured for several years as a monitor engineer for My Chemical Romance, Gavin DeGraw, and multiple fill in gigs for other bands as FOH or MON Engineer.

Ivan would go on to work for LD Systems in Houston Texas working the Houston Rodeo as Monitors Engineer for the event for five consecutive years. While working for LD Systems Ivan also had the opportunity to work on national televised events as the A1 for NCAA Final Four, NCAA Sweet Sixteen, Houston’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, before returning to Rat as shop manager and all around Tech Master. Ivan is now the Technical Resources Manager at Rat Sound Systems.