Offering innovative educational programmes in entertainment technologies, with a wide range of graduate and undergraduate degree program offerings covering film, music, gaming and other fields, Full Sail University recently installed Mackie CR5BT Creative Reference Multimedia Monitors with Bluetooth connectivity in its asset creation suites.

The Florida school’s campus comprises more than 100 real-world production environments, with Director of the Show Production Bachelor of Science degree programme, Mark Johnson, reporting the monitors ideal for multimedia asset creation.

‘We have three suites our instructors use for creating our own assets for use in teaching game audio production, A/V postproduction, multimedia creation, live and recorded audio, and other skills, and the CR Series monitors are perfect for that kind of compact environment,’ he observes. ‘They’ve got a nice flat response, smooth low end, and a whole lot of power for such a small footprint.’

The CR5BT’s Bluetooth connectivity and speaker placement switch have proved invaluable: ‘We’ve tried them out in a couple of different rooms, and it was great to be able to set them up to fit with the layout of each space,’ Johnson says. ‘Many of our instructors will have a video editing project or a DAW session on their laptop that they’re working on. Or they’ve got some tracks loaded onto their phone. They can pair it with the CR5BT monitors and within a few seconds they’re able to stream audio from their computer or their device, without having to connect anything. It really streamlines things.

‘We’ve had a number of different Mackie products at Full Sail over the years,’ he concludes. ‘Their products are well designed, easy to use, durable and great for learning and teaching on.’

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