Student Diary – Mandla Mkaba – Blackberry Sponsorship.

The Cape Audio Colleges initiative to provide a professional sound rig for students personal development seems to be going quite well. The proposals have been coming in and it looks like our rig is making its way out into the clubs of Cape Town just about every weekend. This time round Mandla Mkaba and Co took advantage of the our JBL rig to organise an event in Observatory Cape Town. It was really great to see that the guys took things a step further and secured a Blackberry sponsor. By the look of Read more »

Open Day 2013 is next weekend! Dont miss out.

Student Diary – Craig Bokelman

At the Cape Audio College we like supporting our students in and outside of the college. Valuable experience is difficult to find these days, which is why we feel it is important to provide a means for students to get practice outside of the college walls. This is why, the Cape Audio College has invested in a JBL audio rig that we make available to our students for live events.  Another first for South African audio colleges. If you study at the Cape Audio College, you too will be able to take advantage of our JBL rig. Whether you are planning Read more »

Dave Pearce from Pascal & Pearce Guest Talk at the Cape Audio College

Dave Pearce might be more familier to you as the one half of Pascal & Pearce. Pascal & Pearce are fast becoming one of South Africa’s top house exports, with UK tours and and two albums on offer. Dave graduated from the Cape Audio College diploma course 3 years ago and since then has been busy at work with his partner in crime Pascal Ellinas creating some serious tunes for the masses. Its great to see one of our graduates doing so well.   Read more »

Cape Audio College and LRAD SA join forces.

For those of you who dont follow whats happening on Ted Talks, LRAD or “Long range acoustic device”, is a portable long range acoustic amplification system currently being used by the military and coast guard as an acoustic deterrent in their battle against riot, pirate and crowd control. LRAD has had a lot of coverage in the news. It was famously used during the Seaborne Spirit piracy incident in 2005, effectively repelling pirates armed with rocket propelled grenade launchers.  It is an extremely useful tool, LRAD can render Read more »

Cape Audio Students get busy with PCB cable tester.

It is quite important for developing audio engineers to have an understanding of component based signal flow. Much of the equipment we use in studio or on stage sits at the very cutting edge of modern electronics technology.  This is why, we think its is imperative for fledgling audio professionals to gain experience in the fantastic field of electrical engineering and audio device construction.  You will be amazed what you can build from Read more »

Cape Audio College open day 2013

New Facilities at Cape Audio College – Five new Beat Factories have arrived!

There are some new additions here at the Cape Audio College. We have just completed fitting an additional five production studios to add to our already impressive facilities. The Beat factories (As we are calling them) are production specific studios fitted with the very latest in electronic music production hardware and software as well as acoustically treated recording booths and control rooms. Each beat factory has been equipped with the latest in Focusrite audio interfaces, brand new Apple Mac, Pro Tools 10 workstations, some pretty nice outboard processing from Lexicon and dbx, monitoring from JBL, as well as a Roland GAIA production synthasizers and Yamaha mixing consoles in every room. The new department is also home to some of the nicest synthasizers on the market today, which are available to students for their production assignments. The Cape Audio College now features 14 Read more »

ART PRO VLA II – Stereo Valve Compressor – Hidden gem or Chinese rubbish?

It took me quite some time to come the conclusion that the ART PRO VLA II would be a decent compressor to add to my audio arsenal. ART have in the past and for good reason been considered by most to be one of the worst brand names (Next to Behringer) on the planet. A reputation for cheap Chinese made processors that on a regular day should be avoided like the plague. I seem to remember owning an ART “Tube” preamp that was one of the noisiest devices I’ve ever heard. This experience successfully put me off ART for a very long time. Until recently my opinions of these processors was “pure chinese rubbish”! During some midnight internet adventures  I discovered many Read more »

Cape Audio College Student Diary – Maynardville Open Air theatre

Our student diary article this time round is about Karien Barnard and Sage Booker, two of our recent graduates who got the opportunity to work on a production at the Maynardville open air theatre.  The Maynardville Open-Air Theatre is situated in Maynardville Park, Wynberg. The spectacular green wooded park has earned it the repution for is one of the best-loved outdoor theatre venues in the Cape Region. It offers Read more »