WORK PROCESS SCHEDULE
SOUND TECHNICIAN
O*NET-SOC CODE: 49-2022.03 RAPIDS CODE: 0528
Description: Installs, maintains, and services sound and intercommunication systems, multiple antenna systems, closed circuit TV systems, and associated apparatus: Installs coaxial cable and interconnecting cable and wiring. Tests installation to verify proper functioning Tests, trouble-shoots, and services equipment. May install high-fidelity or stereophonic components or systems for playing musical recordings in homes or business establishments.
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING:
APPROXIMATE HOURS
1. Repairing equipment
1500
2. Amplifiers
1000
3. Intercom
200
4. Microphones
100
5. AM/FM Tuners
600
a) Phone mechanisms
b) Tape recorders
c) Wireless intercoms
d) Disc recorders
e) Hearing aids
f) Master clock
g) Bell system, high-fidelity system
6. Troubleshooting wiring systems
1000
7. Ringing out grounds and shorts
150
8. Checking for proper speaker phasing and impedance match
100
9. Checking for split pairs, transposed pairs and other wiring errors
100
10. Checking for bad microphone lines
100
11. Construction and installations
1000
12. Making wiring installations, both exposed and in raceways
250
13. Setting and connecting equipment, (loudspeakers, master and secondary clock, microphone outlets, P.A. systems, recorders and tuners
1000
14. Making up splices, terminal panels
300
15. Blueprint reading
300
16. Customer relations
100
17. Installation of FM/AM antennas
200
TOTAL HOURS
8000
