Lake training

The Lake training is aimed at sound engineering users such as FoH, monitor and system technicians. Basics of sound technology such as control of loudspeaker systems, EQ and crossover, limiter calculation etc. are required. Participants are usually experienced technicians, for whom only the ‘Lake World’ is new territory.

Two-day training with two levels

Level I: Basics and Features of Lake Controller Software

Level II: System design and practical exercises

If you want to understand Lake completely, you have to go to Bodo. He is one of a few knowledgeable freaks who want to share their knowledge and most of all CAN!
Christoph Andrich

Christoph Andrich

Freelance Audio + Consulting
Bodo Felusch knows how to take his training participants with him from the very first minute. First, Felusch introduces the range of Lake Controllers, introduces the operation of the software and rounds it off with practical exercises. Finally, it is presented how to set up your ‘construction sites’ and how to save yourself a lot of furnishing work and thus reach your goal quickly. Ultimately, you learn much faster and more intensively and through a lot of practical orientation also much deeper than by studying the operating instructions. All in all, highly recommended for any system technician who deals with Lake. Lake Controlling from 0 to 100.
Michael Bernhard

Michael Bernhard

BEMI Tontechnik GbR
Everybody of us has seen Lake on countless event places....but one day You need to know more about it, or even have to work with... This Lake Training I recommend to all who want to start with, or need to work with in future. It gives You the right step in what Lake is in detail, and what it does... Practical exercises explain the various ways of use, and show You the way to continue....
Michael Spiess

Michael Spiess

sound engineering
Since we invested in LabGruppen and Lake a long time ago, I had already dealt with the matter for a long time. Nevertheless, I still lacked some ideas and background knowledge (especially in the field of network technology) to find or configure the perfect system solution for us. Bodo has taken us a big step forward in all matters. Last but not least, from his practice came good suggestions and know how. His documents are more than detailed, as they represent a good guide in German, especially for Lake users and not ‘native english speaker’, which can be used again and again. Many thanks to Bodo, and his know-how!
Raphael Rupprecht

Raphael Rupprecht

Concept Solutions Event Technology
The Lake seminar at TWAudio was first class! Sophisticated, comprehensible, demanding and completely successful. A lot of practical relevance and meaningful solutions to problems ‘on the construction site’ ... definitely brought me a lot!
Frederik Dargel

Frederik Dargel

freelancer
I have now had several occasions to attend the seminars presented excellently by Bodo in terms of content. This seminar opens up the LAKE world with many useful details and very important basic knowledge at the same time. For me, a ‘must’ for every serious sound engineer!
Michael Häck

Michael Häck

Audiotec
Course content

Level-I Basics & Controller Software

Participants will be fully introduced to Lake technology. You will get to know the hardware as well as all typical Lake features such as: Iso-Float, Ideal Graphic EQ, MESA EQ, LimiterMax, ISVPL. On the basis of a complete run of the Lake controller software, the participants will be shown all functions as well as the handling of firmware updates and preset management. All designer functions such as the overview/entry tables and the context of user and factory settings are also part of Level-I. Practical exercises and further system design topics are covered in Level-II.

Learning objectives:

  • What is Lake? ...History & Hardware Overview
  • Typical of 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.group functions,
  • modules
  • groups
  • systems
  • Supermodules
  • Designer Fashion vs User Fashion
  • Designer functions
  • Firmware management
  • Preset management
  • Password protection Hirarchy
  • Hide & View Only
  • Base configuration
  • Other functions
  • The complete range of functions of the Lake controller software in a systematic run without practical exercises

Level-II System Design & Practical Workshop

The participants are taught the software by means of practical exercises on their own computer. You will learn to program modules for your own loudspeakers yourself and to make the correct adjustment of Crossover and LimiterMax/ISVPL for perfect protection of the loudspeaker components. You will learn how to customize Contour Modules for PLM power amplifiers and form groups.

Students will learn how to create and password-protect systems using Designer Functions, Modules, and Systems, and how to limit features for guest engineers. All other designer functions, such as the overview/entry tables and the context of user and factory settings, are also part of Level-II.

In the afternoon, further system design aspects will be highlighted. The focus here is on clocking, routing and fallback strategies for redundancy requirements and limiter options with Lake Processing.

Learning objectives:

  • Create module
  • LimiterMax and ISVPL settings
  • Password protection module
  • Lake Groups Apply Philosophy
  • Create a system
  • System Password protection and functional limitations for guest engineers
  • Clock Domain overview
  • SRC vs. SRC-Clock
  • Auto clock detection
  • Clock slipping
  • Match multiple clock domains
  • PLM+ as Stagebox
  • AES Stacking Mode
  • Small Touring Dante distribution
  • Quick & Dirty FoH feeds
  • Multi-Mixer Festival FoH
  • Fallback strategies at RockNRoll, Techno-Festival and Corporate Events
  • Emergency evacuation announcements
  • Crest factor
  • RMS- & Peak Limiter
  • Protective Agents vs. Auxiliaries
  • creative use of group data
  • Compliance with level requirements

trainers

Bodo Felusch

Sound technician, Audio over IP specialist and initiator of the “Lake Training” seminars since 2008 and “Network Technology for Event Technicians” since 2013.

Motto: "Don't panic, it's just a network"

25+ years in the professional audio business

300+ seminar days

3000+ participants trained with IT For AVs

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