Systems Integration Asia – April-May 2018

Systems Integration Asia Co-organises First Smaart Training in the Philippines

PHILIPPINES: Systems Integraon Asia
together with Marci Sang-Olan brought the
first Smaart training to the Philippines on 13
and 14 of March 2018. The training was
spearheaded by Chris Tsanjoures from
raonal acouscs and was held at the
Holiday Inn Manila Galleria. A total of 30
delegates aended the paid for training.

“Marci had approached me last year and

felt that a Smaart training was required in

the Philippines. So we partnered him to

bring the training. Marci did put in a lot of

effort in spreading the word and geng the

commitment from companies to send the

delegates. We were pleasantly pleased with

the turnout as the training fees were higher

than usual for the market,” said Thomas

Prakasam, Publisher of Systems Integraon

Asia magazine.

The training saw a mix of delegates from

the rental&staging, SIs, a church, an

educaon facility and a hospitality

organisaon.

Jusn Santos of

Forscink Inc comments,

“We have been using

Smaart for 2 years

now. I am pleased that

I came to the training

as it gave me the

opportunity to

understand the updates beer. The SPL

feature was especially useful as it provides

a log and beer monitoring which certainly

helps us with our work.”

Noel de Brackinghe of

Soundcheck felt that

the training was

definitely helpful. “We

have been using Smaart

and most of the

knowledge we have

gathered has been third

hand. So it was good to hear straight from

the developers and Chris explained many of

the features well. We mostly handle the

foreign shows and with their exacng

requirements, the lile ps and tricks that

Chris shared with us offered us clarity on

why we need to do some of the stuff to

help us with our work beer.”

Concurring that the

training was useful,

Elizer Ylanan of

Stagecra Internaonal

adds, “The first day

training on the

opmisaon process

was very helpful in

understanding the soware beer. I

certainly benefited from the knowledge

gained in terms of how to beer calibrate

and on frame alignment and so forth.”

Co-organiser Marci Sang-olan concludes,

“With the rise of hotels, resorts and the

increasing numbers of foreign acts here in

the Philippines, the bar for technical

standards must be at par with other

countries. Understanding the soware

enables the user to be more consistent in

frequency response & sound level from one

show to another. I strongly suggest that

everyone involved in audio who would

want to take their skills to the next level

SHOULD aend the course. We are glad

with the turnout and we hope to do more

trainings in the near future.

Systems Integraon Asia would also like to

acknowledge the support of AVLS, AVSC

and Beyond The Blue for their technical

support.

http://www.systemsintegraonasia.com

Delegates of the first Smaart Training in the Philippines

Thomas, Chris and Marci

S IA

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