Not your uncle’s gear demos! DARC is facilitating low stakes and low barrier access to DARC gear with an informal learning component. These gear orientations are member led and staff supported, focusing on key tools in DARC’s equipment library.
Just in time for festival season, our first drop-in session focuses on mixers and PA kits. This demonstration will show you how to put together and operate a basic PA system for a live sound event. Whether you’re mixing your favourite local musician or hosting an artist talk, you’ll be able to make sure your sound runs smoothly.
In this session, we’ll review speakers, monitors, mixers, and microphones commonly used in live sound. We’ll also explore signal flow, gain staging, effects, aux sends, and other elements of live sound that will help to get you started.
Instructors
Deighan Morrison is a sound artist, producer, and audio engineer who works with audio, video, and 3D environments. Deighan has a background in Sound Design and Production, Music Industry Arts, and linguistics. Their current practice is focused on exploring the relationship between ecology and technology by combining field recordings, synthesis, and multi-channel audio techniques to create immersive digital settings. As a workshop instructor, Deighan has developed and led courses in sound art, immersive world-building, audio production, and live mixing techniques. Their credits include sound design and composition for features, short films, documentaries, and 360 video.
Mel Gosselin is a french-canadian artist from Ottawa. Their musical background is in classical piano as well as choral ensembles. They have a music composition practice that is very improvisational and have released songs under the artist name Greenfield Ave. They are a graduate from the Music Industry Arts program at Algonquin College and a recipient of the Harry Bloomfield Scholarship.
