On Wednesday, October 18th Jon Burton, Senior Lecturer in Entertainment Engineering, joined colleagues from across the entertainment sector as guests of Jeff Smith MP and the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) at the Houses of Parliament to help launch the Listen for Life Campaign. Jon and his colleague, Associate Professor Adam Hill, have been active […]
University of Derby Associate Professor of Electroacoustics, Adam Hill, has recently completed work on a new AES Technical Document: AESTD1007.1.20-05 Understanding and Managing Sound Exposure and Noise Pollution at Outdoor Events (http://www.aes.org/technical/documents/AESTD1007_1_20_05.pdf). Adam led the working group as Chair of the AES Technical Committee on Acoustics and Sound Reinforcement. This report is intended to present […]
German loudspeaker manufacturer, d&b audiotechnik has recently designed the new sound system for the Royal Albert Hall, which is now considered to be the world’s largest single-room loudspeaker system. View of the new sound system recently installed in the Royal Albert Hall in London The project was led by one of our very first BSc […]
We’re fortunate at Derby to have many friends in the industry who regularly give their time to come in and give guest lectures/demos to our students. Early-2019 isn’t looking too bad, with guests including: Jon Burton FOH engineer for The Prodigy Jon will be stopping over to talk to our undergraduate and masters students about […]
A group of Derby Entertainment Engineering students recently had the chance to get a behind the scenes tour of The Prodigy‘s latest touring production when they were at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham last Saturday. The group consisted of students from all years on the BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event Technology, BSc (Hons) […]
The AES have rolled out a new monthly feature for AES members called AES Inside Track. Each month a different audio-related topic is explored with a curated list of AES and non-AES resources to get you up to speed on a subject. For August 2018, Derby lecturer, Adam Hill, has put together a list of […]
We had a visit last week from local loudspeaker company, 3 Square Audio. They were interested in having a series of measurements taken of their latest loudspeaker design. PhD students Alex Vilkaitis and Jon Moore, along with lecturer, Mark Dring, took the lead with the tests in our hemi-anechoic chamber. The group took measurements including: […]
[guest post by Derby graduate, David Wilson] With Nexo sponsoring the TPI Awards 2018, Sound of Music Ltd. were chosen to provide the audio solution for the entire event, including the 2000 capacity main awards at Battersea Evolution, including the VIP and bar areas, as well as conference space in a nearby hotel. View of […]
The Institute of Acoustics conference on Reproduced Sound will be visiting the Entertainment Engineering subject group here at Derby this Tuesday evening to get a taste of the various research projects our staff and students have on the go. Projects being demonstrated span topic areas including: live sound reinforcement, ambisonics, speech intelligibility, and wave field […]
Avolights, one of the industry’s leading manufacturers of lighting consoles, is on site this week to provide training to our BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event Technology students. Avolights’ van pulling up to the university on Tuesday They’ve brought in a number of lighting consoles to supplement the AVO products the University currently owns. […]