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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine network requirements
   • Liaise with relevant stakeholders to establish system requirements
   • Investigate available system resources and ascertain capabilities
   • Draw an accurate system flow chart with all components in correct order
   • Correctly allocate audio stage boxes where analogue audio is required
   • Determine audio schedules with allowance for preset system configurations and dynamic system changes in accordance with needs
2. Set-up control network
   • Assemble relevant hardware components in accordance with system needs
   • Assemble network topography in accordance with system needs
   • Complete the interface with analogue audio as required
3. Test and commission network
   • Test the network topography and resources to ensure correct functioning
   • Commission analogue audio components appropriately
   • Correctly activate and implement all DSP system presets
4. Monitor network
   • Crosscheck performance of amplifiers and loudspeakers in accordance with DSP system assignments
   • Identify any problems with network, take appropriate action or report to relevant colleagues

Required Skills

Required skills

problem solving and technology skills in the context of controlling wiring and audio routing options for a typical distributed audio control system literacy skills sufficient to interpret audio data and draw system flow chart numeracy skills sufficient to work with numerical data used in audio equipment

Required knowledge

MIDI SMPTE and showbased protocols and control mediums machine control lighting control other stage systems terminology and definitions for digital systems and network control including modern Ethernet and RS based systems overview of cues and their relationship to control networks overview of analogue forms of control and switching versus digital control and networks overview of data transmission and error correction overview of data network distribution network topologies and basic network protocols overview of data communications data interfacing and interfacing with various common computer operating systems including Windows and Macintosh overview of DSP processing processor types and applications within control systems basic principles of transmission limitations latency processing time and typical network performance proprietary audio transmission protocols examples and other kinds of full bandwidth audio transmission topologies

Evidence Required

The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria required skills and knowledge range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package
Overview of assessment
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit	The following evidence is critical to the judgement of competence in this unit understanding of data interfacing and protocols ability to configure audio networks to meet specific requirements
Context of and specific resources for assessment	The assessment context must provide for practical demonstration of skills through the implementation of an audio network for more than one production involvement of and interaction with a production team to reflect the collaborative nature of the unit use industrycurrent equipment
Method of assessment	Assessment may incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of essential underpinning knowledge and might include evaluation of a network setup by the candidate case studies to assess ability to create networks for different requirements oral or written questioning to assess knowledge of data protocols and interfacing review of portfolios of evidence and third party workplace reports of onthejob performance by the candidate Assessment methods should closely reflect workplace demands and the needs of particular groups eg people with disabilities and people who may have literacy or numeracy difficulties such as speakers of languages other than English remote communities and those with interrupted schooling
Guidance information for assessment	Assessment of this unit requires access to industrycurrent audio networking devices venue in which audio can be networked

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Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
System requirements may include:	liaison with sound designer operational overview signal flow diagram
Capabilities may include:	output signal routing options remote control of processing equipment
Hardware components may include:	amplifiers loudspeakers mixing consoles network control devices signal processors

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