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DiGiCo and L-Acoustics Workshop – U.K.

Join us for an exclusive workshop with DiGiCo and L-Acoustics where you’ll gain experience with the DiGiCo T software and L-Acoustics L-ISA Processor hear advanced spatial audio mixing techniques. You’ll gain experience with the L-ISA Processor and learn more about DiGiCo’s Industry-standard Theatre Software extension. This session is designed for creatives, audio professionals and engineers, looking to explore immersive sound mixing and elevate their creative approach.

May 27, 2026 – 9:30 to 4:30 GMT

Location: Highgate Studios in Kentish Town. (Specific location will be sent after confirmation of attendance).

Note: This event is open to 15 People and is in-person. Please only sign up if you can attend. We will be confirming everyone’s attendance before sending out confirmation and location.  Thank you for your understanding.

Register to attend here

In this workshop you will learn:

Whether you’re mixing for musicals, plays, special events, concerts, corporate events, or immersive installations, this workshop will give you the knowledge to step confidently into the future of sound.

SoundGirls L-Acoustics Grants

L-Acoustics is offering four grants for courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program. The Education Team has structured the grants to relate to certain job profiles to help the recipient advance their knowledge and skills in their respective fields:

These grants focus on offering access to in-person trainings via our packaged seminars. For in-person attendance of courses, hotel accommodations are included with the grant. Grant recipients are responsible for any additional travel expenses. If the recipient is unable to attend an in-person training, the recipient will be offered online training options instead. 

Prospective candidates must be members of SoundGirls and have until November 1, 2025 to submit their application. Winners will receive notification of their award by December 1, 2025 and announcement will be made via the website and social media. Candidates can only apply for one choice of grant.

System Technician Grant

This grant consists of enrollment to the following courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program:

This grant aims to empower the trainee to learn how to mount, rig, cable, and connect a L-Acoustics system.

It also aims to give the learner knowledge of:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1 year access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

Apply Here

System Engineer Grant

The recipient requires prior completion or concurrent enrollment to System & Workflow, or previous completion of System Fundamentals. This grant consists of enrollment to the following courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program:

This grant aims to empower the trainee to learn how to design and calibrate a L-Acoustics system. It also aims to deepen the learner’s understanding of:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1 year access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

Apply Here

L-ISA Grant

The recipient requires prior completion or concurrent enrollment to System & Workflow, or previous completion of System Fundamentals. This grant invites the recipient to attend all the L-ISA-focused courses from L-Acoustics Education:

This grant empowers the trainee to design, implement, and calibrate a L-Acoustics L-ISA system. This grant also empowers the trainee to prepare, encode, and control objects in a L-ISA mix as well as create a mix in L-ISA when walking up to a L-ISA system with or without preproduction. It also aims to deepen the student’s understanding of:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1 year access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

Apply Here

System Expert Grant

This grant consists of enrollment to the following courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program:

This grant aims to empower the trainee to advance their understanding in system optimization as well as learning about:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1 year access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

Apply Here

SoundGirls Grants for L-Acoustics Connect Conference

SoundGirls, in collaboration with L-Acoustics, is excited to announce that L-Acoustics will be offering 8 grants to the L-Acoustics Connect conference happening March 11-13, 2025, in Paris, France. These grants will cover the recipient’s registration at the conference, including the training on Day 1 and 4 nights of hotel accommodation. Any person who is an active member of SoundGirls, anywhere in the world, can apply.

Travel expenses such as flights and transportation are not covered by the grant. Meals will be available during the conference. 

APPLY HERE

The trainings offered at the conference on Day 1 include:

You must have completed the following prerequisites to apply for a grant that includes any of the following training on day 1: M1-P1 Measurement & Tuning, Festival Project Workshop, or Touring Project Workshop. 

The prerequisites are indicated below and must be completed before the L-Acoustics Connect conference starts.

Applicants must choose one training day to apply for and L-Acoustics will award one grant for each training+conference except for the L2 System training which will have 2 associated grants awarded.

Applications for the grant are due by January 31, 2025.

Grant recipients will be announced by February 11, 2025.

APPLY HERE

L-Acoustics – SoundGirls Grant Recipients 2024

We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the L-Acoustics – SoundGirls Grants for 2024! This year, we are proud to support a diverse group of talented individuals who are making significant strides in the audio industry, who have each demonstrated exceptional dedication and passion in their work. These grants will provide them with valuable resources and opportunities to further their careers and continue their important contributions to the sound community. A big thank you to L-Acoustics for their generous support in making these grants possible. We look forward to celebrating the achievements of our recipients and supporting their journeys in the audio field!

Carolyn Slothour (System Expert grant)

Carolyn Slothour is a freelance live sound engineer based in New York with 10 years of experience in the audio industry with a specialization in FOH, monitor, and systems engineering. She has recently worked with artists such as Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas and Michael Bublé, and has mixed at festivals including Download, When We Were Young, Corona Capital, Slam Dunk and Lollapalooza. In addition to engineering, she develops curriculum and teaches live sound engineering courses for a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve accessibility and diversity within the audio industry. When not working, Carolyn enjoys making electronic music and spinning fire.

Instagram: @requiemwitch / Website: www.carolynslothour.com

Monica Bolles (L-ISA grant)

Monica Bolles has been working with spatial audio since 2011, when she first gained access to her local planetarium’s 15.1 channel surround system. Since then, she has developed custom toolsets in Max MSP and explored emerging technologies to craft textured soundscapes that explore space, movement, and interaction. As both a technician and artist, she collaborates with artists and composers to bring their work into immersive spatial environments, while also producing her own large-scale multichannel installations, exhibited on systems ranging from 8 to 140 channels.

Monica co-hosts the Immersive Audio Podcast and contributes to organizing Spatial Audio Meetups through NOTAM. She frequently curates, moderates, and presents workshops and panels on spatial audio, with appearances at notable events such as the New Visions Festival, SXSW, IRCAM Forums, Ableton Loop, IMERSA Summit, and NIME, among others.

Monica currently owns and operates Resonant Interactions, a company specializing in immersive experience design and immersive music production.

Websites: 

Social Media

Madison Keefer (System Engineer grant)

Hey everyone, I’m Madison Keefer and I’m a 22 year old who is super passionate about audio engineering. I run sound for Lightning Hockey games and I am a Patch tech with ESI Audio. I aspire to be a System Engineer one day and am always working on bettering my skills. I love how fast paced this industry is and the work I get to do. I am so thankful to have the job that I have and to play a part in creating legendary memories for people around the world.

 

Social Media Handles:

Facebook: Madison keefer

Instagram: @maddy_keef21

Jessica Baxter (System Technician grant)

Jess hails from Perth, Western Australia. She started her audio career mixing FOH in small, local live music venues. Since then she has branched out and is working full time for one of the largest audio production companies in Perth. Here she hopes to advance her career in the field of large scale line array system design and optimization.

SoundGirls L-Acoustics Grants 2024

SoundGirls L-Acoustics Grants

L-Acoustics is offering 4 grants for courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program. The Education Team has structured the grants to relate to certain job profiles to help the recipient advance their knowledge and skills in their respective fields:

These grants focus on offering access to in-person training via our packaged seminars. For in-person attendance of courses, hotel accommodations are included with the grant. Grant recipients are responsible for any additional travel expenses. If the recipient is unable to attend an in-person training, the recipient will be offered online training options instead. 

Prospective candidates must be members of SoundGirls and have until September 1, 2024, to submit their application. Winners will receive notification of their award by September 30, 2024, and an announcement will be made via the website and social media. Candidates can only apply for one choice of grant.

The recipient can choose to attend the courses at any time within the 1-year time frame starting from the time of being informed of their award.

System Technician Grant

This grant consists of enrollment to the following courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program:

This grant aims to empower the trainee to learn how to mount, rig, cable, and connect a L-Acoustics system.

It also aims to give the learner knowledge of:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1 year of access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

Apply Here

System Engineer Grant

The recipient requires prior completion or concurrent enrollment to System & Workflow, or previous completion of System Fundamentals. This grant consists of enrollment to the following courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program:

This grant aims to empower the trainee to learn how to design and calibrate a L-Acoustics system. It also aims to deepen the learner’s understanding of:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1 year of access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

Apply Here

L-ISA Grant

The recipient requires prior completion or concurrent enrollment to System & Workflow, or previous completion of System Fundamentals. This grant invites the recipient to attend all the L-ISA-focused courses from L-Acoustics Education:

This grant empowers the trainee to design, implement, and calibrate a L-Acoustics L-ISA system. This grant also empowers the trainee to prepare, encode, and control objects in a L-ISA mix as well as create a mix in L-ISA when walking up to a L-ISA system with or without preproduction. It also aims to deepen the student’s understanding of:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1 year of access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

Apply Here

System Expert Grant

This grant consists of enrollment to the following courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program:

This grant aims to empower the trainee to advance their understanding in system optimization as well as learning about:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1 year of access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

Apply Here

SoundGirls L-Acoustics Grants Awarded

SoundGirls L-Acoustics Grants

Congratulations to the 2023 SoundGirls that have been awarded L-Acoucstic Grants. We wish you all the best and thank L-Acoustics for providing these grants.

System Technician Grant

Sage Tichenor

System Engineer Grant

Katlyn Manktelow

L-ISA Grant

Victoria Hofflin

System Expert Grant

Sonia Andrea del Carmen Gutiérrez TREJO

SoundGirls L-Acoustics Grants

SoundGirls L-Acoustics Grants

 

L-Acoustics is offering 4 grants for courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program. The Education Team has structured the grants to relate to certain job profiles to help the recipient advance their knowledge and skills in their respective fields:

These grants focus on offering access to in-person training via our packaged seminars. For in-person attendance of courses, hotel accommodations are included with the grant. Grant recipients are responsible for any additional travel expenses. If the recipient is unable to attend an in-person training within 4 months before the grant expiration date or the recipient demonstrates a financial hardship with attending an in-person training, the recipient will be offered online training options instead. 

Prospective candidates must be members of SoundGirls and have until September 1, 2023, to submit their application. Winners will be announced on the website and social media by September 30, 2023. Candidates can only apply for one choice of grant.

The recipient can choose to attend the courses at any time within the 1-year time frame starting from the time of being informed of their award.

System Technician Grant

This grant consists of enrollment in the following courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program:

System & Workflow 

Establish your role in the L-Acoustics ecosystem and align your practice with the latest tools and state-of-the-art workflow

K System of choice (K1, K2, K3, Kara II, or Kiva II) or L2 Training

Recognize the standard configurations of the benchmark Kx or L2 system and gain hands-on experience rigging and listening to them.

L-Acoustics System Implementation

Advance your skills in implementing a safe and functional L-Acoustics system and prepare it for calibration.

This grant aims to empower the trainee to learn how to mount, rig, cable, and connect an L-Acoustics system.

It also aims to give the learner knowledge of:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1-year access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

APPLY HERE

System Engineer Grant

The recipient requires prior completion or concurrent enrollment to System & Workflow, or previous completion of System Fundamentals. This grant consists of enrollment in the following courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program:

Soundvision

Learn the most advanced software functionalities for 3D venue modeling, system simulation, and line source optimization.

Drive System

Master the configuration, control, and monitoring of an L-Acoustics system from the source output to the loudspeaker inputs.

M1-P1 Measurement & Tuning

Learn how to record measurements with the P1 processor and how to perform a loudspeaker system tuning with the M1 software.

This grant aims to empower the trainee to learn how to design and calibrate an L-Acoustics system. It also aims to deepen the learner’s understanding of:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1-year access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

APPLY HERE

L-ISA Grant

The recipient requires prior completion or concurrent enrollment to System & Workflow, or previous completion of System Fundamentals. This grant invites the recipient to attend all the L-ISA-focused courses from L-Acoustics Education:

L-ISA Technology

Start your immersive journey with an overview of the L-ISA Technology from loudspeaker system design, object-based mixing, immersive audio algorithms to project workflow.

L-ISA Loudspeaker System

Master key system engineering steps in planning and deploying L-ISA systems: loudspeaker system design, implementation, and calibration. The grant allows access to online or onsite training for this course.

L-ISA Live Mixing

Create an immersive live mix, directly from your desk input channels or from an original left-right mix.

L-ISA Preproduction

Learn and experience the preproduction process of an L-ISA live event from the studio to the venue, anticipating the constraints of the large scale.

This grant empowers the trainee to design, implement, and calibrate an L-Acoustics L-ISA system. This grant also empowers the trainee to prepare, encode, and control objects in an L-ISA mix as well as create a mix in L-ISA when walking up to an L-ISA system with or without preproduction. It also aims to deepen the student’s understanding of:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1-year access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

APPLY HERE

System Expert Grant

This grant consists of enrollment in the following courses in the L-Acoustics Education Program:

Variable Curvature Line Source

Perfect your understanding of line source behavior to optimize your mechanical design and use of electronic settings. 

Loudspeaker System Calibration

Develop a comprehensive approach to calibration in the entire workflow of a project.

This grant aims to empower the trainee to advance their understanding of system optimization as well as to learn about:

Completion of the courses in this grant includes 1-year access to the L-Acoustics Education Platform learning community and content for all the courses.

APPLY HERE

Anya System Review by Dave Rat

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Rat Sound Systems has always been known for its innovation and creativity. From the beginning with their custom sound systems designed for the punk rock scene Rat incorporated innovations. Such as, hard for the punters to climb, beer and boot stomping tolerant stage monitors, system protection limiters that allowed the engineers to turn things up to “11” without blowing out speakers, and compact packaging that fit into a van. (more…)

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