Where to Start with Audio Tuning and EQing, etc...

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

I did it in 2018, and so it still existed then. However, that was in the acoustically perfect Dolby screening room in Burbank. It was a great foundation for learning the basic concepts, procedures, functions of equipment, and so on, but if you go straight from that to a 1920s picture palace to do your first "for real" tune, you're going to be in for a shock. A lot of what I have learned since from techs who have been doing this for decades has been just as valuable as the class itself.

1986 for me... And Sam Chavez and George Douglas taught the CP-50 / CP-200 training class. They also took us to the Saul Zaentz mixing theater where the re-recording engineer that did Amadeus mic took the mix apart for us so we could learn what all was contained in a movie sound track. When the CP-555came out, Dolby started going into the field to train groups of techs. When digital servers came out, we all went back to Dolby again. Time goes so fast it seems like yesterday...