Lake Training
Duration: 2 days
The Lake Training is addressed to audio professionals such as FoH, monitor and system technicians. Basic knowledge of sound engineering such as control over loudspeaker systems, EQ and crossover, limiter calculation, etc. are required. The participants are usually experienced technicians to whom only the “Lake World” is a new one. The two-day training is divided into two levels. Level-I includes all Lake fundamentals and all functions of the Lake Controller software. Level-II includes aspects of system design and practical exercises within the controller software as well as hardware.
Day 1 | Level-I Fundamentals & Controller Software
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The participants will be fully introduced to the Lake technology. They will get acquainted with the hardware as well as all the typical Lake features such as: Iso-Float, Ideal Graphic EQ, MESA EQ, LimiterMax, ISVPL. The participants will be shown all the functions of a complete Lake Controller software’s workflow as well as the handling of firmware updates and preset management. All Designer Functions such as overview/input tables and the relationship between user and factory settings are also a part of Level-I. Practical exercises and advanced system design topics are covered in Level-II.
- What is Lake? …History & Hardware overview
- Typical Lake:
- Iso-Float
- Input-Fallback
- Clock Configuration
- Latencies
- LimiterMax
- ISVPL
- Ideal Graphic EQ
- MESA EQ
- Raised Cosine Equalisation
- EQ conversion for Lake processing
- Load Smart
- Contour- & MESA-Mode
- Lab.gruppen functions
- Modules
- Groups
- Systems
- Super modules
- Designer Mode vs User Mode
- Designer Functions
- Firmware Management
- Preset Management
- Password protection hierarchy
- Hide & View Only
- Base Configuration
- Other functions
- The complete range of functions of the Lake Controller software in a systematic approach without practical exercises
Day 2 | Level-II System design & Practical workshop
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The participants get acquainted with the software through practical exercises on their own computers. They will learn how to program the modules for their own loudspeakers and how to correctly set Crossover and LimiterMax / ISVPL for the perfect protection of loudspeaker components. They will learn how to customize Contour Modules for PLM power amplifiers and how to build groups. The participants will learn how to create systems and protect the Designer functions, modules, and systems with a password and how to restrict the functions for guest engineers. All other Designer functions such as overview/input tables and the relationship between user and factory settings make also part of Level-II.
In the afternoon further system design aspects will be clarified. The attention will be focused on clocking, routing and fallback strategies for redundancy requirements and limiter options in Lake processing.
- Module setup
- LimiterMax and ISVPL settings
- Module password protection
- Adopting Lake-groups philosophy
- System setup
- System Password protection and function restrictions for Guest Engineers
- Clock Domain overview
- SRC vs. SRC-Clock
- Auto Clock Detection
- Clock Slipping
- Matching multiple Clock Domains
- PLM+ as Stagebox
- AES Stacking Mode
- Small Touring Dante Distribution
- Quick & Dirty FoH-Feeds
- Multi-Mixer-Festival-FoH
- Fallback strategies at live gigs, techno festivals and corporate events
- Emergency and evacuation announcements
- Crest factor
- RMS- & Peak Limiter
- Protection vs. aid
- Creative use of group data
- Compliance with level requirements