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  1. How to place and aim your stage monitors for maximum rejection
  2. What do I need to know about my speakers?
  3. How to flatten the phase for easier main+sub alignment
  4. How to set the limiter threshold on a DBX PA2 so you don’t blow up your speakers
  5. How to practice reading phase traces when you don’t have a PA
  6. Smaart: Tracking peak frequency without the mouse cursor
  7. Bob McCarthy: Where do I place my delay towers?
  8. Analysis: How to Tune a PA System for Live Sound
  9. Moving from Discord to Mighty Networks
  10. How Robert Scovill Got Fired by John Cougar Mellancamp and Hired by Prince
  11. What do all of those squiggly lines mean? (a short intro to the graphs in Smaart)
  12. How To Find Work And Become A Freelance Sound Engineer
  13. Why Andrew Stone Only Mixes For Himself
  14. Stop Smaarting the Sound System
  15. 6 Most Popular Training Videos on Sound System Tuning
  16. How Jamie Anderson Saves Time in System Tuning with Smaart Check Points
  17. Why is wireless so hard?!
  18. Recovering from Burnout and Avoiding Overwhelm
  19. Get On Tour – Download FREE for 1 week
  20. Guerrilla Mixing
  21. Tomas Wolfe and the FOH/MON Facebook Group
  22. Quick Monitor Mixes – guerrilla style
  23. You might be guerrilla mixing, if…
  24. Why Touring Sound Engineers Are Getting Paid Less
  25. Mixing Monitors for Tears for Fears
  26. Essential Live Sound Training with Scott Adamson [REVIEW]
  27. Dan Dugan and the Birth of the Automatic Microphone Mixer
  28. Bobby Owsinski: Why Do Concerts Sound So Bad?
  29. How to build your own audio analyzer (like Smaart) for FREE
  30. Simple Ideas to Improve Acoustics in Recording Studios and Concert Halls
  31. FOH Mixing: EQ it till it sounds good
  32. Smaart is just a tool. You are the analyzer.
  33. This is why I no longer recommend turning one sub off to fight power alley
  34. Download the DiGiCo Session Setup Checklist
  35. Top 5 Common Mistakes When Using a DiGiCo Console
  36. I want to build a marketplace for corporate AV techs
  37. Everything I Feared about Digico Consoles Is Wrong
  38. Get More Work as a Live Sound Engineer by Doing What No One Else Will
  39. 5 Pro Drummers Explain How to Make a Drum Kit Quieter on Stage
  40. Review of Live Sound Basics
  41. Best Free and Paid Online Training Webinars, Courses, and Certifications for Live Sound Engineers
  42. This Is How to Find the Perfect Show Volume Without an SPL Meter
  43. My Results from 30 Days of Ear Training
  44. Get Booked Solid in Pro Audio
  45. How Anthony Went From Warehouse Tech to FOH Mixer For Cirque Du Soleil
  46. This Marketer Will Make You Look at Your Career Totally Differently
  47. How Much Do Live Sound Engineers Make?
  48. How To Become A Sound Engineer
  49. Where do clients come from?
  50. How to Be a Self-Starter in the Audio Industry
  51. 9 Tips for Easy In-Ear Monitor Setup
  52. Americans Like a Lot of Bass
  53. One Simple Tool to Find the Right Size Speaker for Any Space
  54. Inside Pro Audio Workshop: Seeing Sound
  55. Get 12 Weeks of Coaching in 5 Minutes
  56. Find a Live Sound Engineer Anywhere in the World
  57. Lively start to ‘Surviving to Thriving’ coaching course
  58. Where do I put the measurement microphone?
  59. Audio Calculators for Sound System Tuning
  60. How to Find Polarity Problems Ruining Your Sound System
  61. 3 Phase Alignment Hacks to Make Your Sound System Tuning Easier
  62. This Is Why You Are Over EQing
  63. Meet ZOID, the sound system tuning chatbot
  64. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 4
  65. Create an Explosion of Reverb for Magical Song Transitions
  66. The Amazing Capacity and Limitation of the X32 with Drew Brashler
  67. Use a Ducker to Get Your Vocals (and your kick!) in the Pocket
  68. Give Me MORE Kick! This effect saved the day.
  69. How to Update Snapshots on the SD5 in the Middle of a Show
  70. Make Space for Bass in Your Ableton Live Mixes
  71. Help, I can’t hear the vocal! Waves Vocal Rider Plugin to the rescue.
  72. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 3
  73. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 2
  74. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 1
  75. Mauricio Ramirez: Trust your ears, not just the audio analyzer
  76. How to Mix Intuitively Using Daily Ear Training Games
  77. How to Become a World Class Audio Engineer (if I had to start all over)
  78. Mixing Monitors from FOH: 17 lessons I learned from Grealy at Soulsound
  79. 3 Simple Ways to Phase Align Main+Sub with SATlive
  80. Live Training Webinar: Gigs on Demand
  81. Do you want a job as a touring FOH sound engineer? You need to hear this.
  82. Behind the Scenes of the Ringling Brothers Circus Sound System
  83. Top 5 Posts of 2016
  84. SATlive + Thomas Neumann: Sound system tuning with a single measurement microphone
  85. SIM3 is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to do with that data.
  86. Circus Touring with 21 Channels of Sim 3 Audio Analyzer
  87. My two favorite features of the Digico SD5 faders
  88. Emergency Digico SD5 Optocore Procedures
  89. Start offering podcast production services to your clients
  90. Position Yourself for Non-stop Touring as a Stage Manager and Lighting Technician
  91. Is IATSE worthwhile for sound engineers?
  92. Networking and Referral Strategy for Sound Engineers
  93. Are you a sound engineer or an artist?
  94. Content Marketing Strategy for Freelance Audio Engineers
  95. Build self-confidence for better productivity with this simple habit of relaxation
  96. Growth Hack 2016: 13-Day Career Building Challenge
  97. Silence: The secret ingredient to sound design in advertising
  98. What your parents never taught you about money
  99. Don’t sell services; sell solutions
  100. Mixing the most difficult musical on Broadway: Rock of Ages
  101. SynAudCon “How Sound Systems Work” online training REVIEW
  102. ATTENTION, MUSICIANS: You need to figure out where money is made.
  103. The easiest, cheapest, most valuable technique for long-term business success
  104. Turn Your iPhone into a Wireless Microphone
  105. For Live Sound Engineers: Surprisingly Simple Tips to Prevent Back Injury on the Job
  106. SPECIAL REPORT: Sound System Design for Small Venues with Bob McCarthy
  107. 11 Professional Networking Improvements You Can Make Today to Find Work in a New Niche
  108. One Critical Skill You Need to Get Stage Theatre Jobs: How Surrey University Is Training Audio Engineers
  109. The good, the bad, and the ugly of being a Tour Managing FOH Engineer
  110. How to be Unstoppable
  111. The Graveyard Shift: How Mike Rauchfleisch Built a Thriving Audio Business by Working All-night Parties That No One Else Wanted
  112. 360˚ Interactive Live Video Streaming with Zero Crew
  113. Support Sound Design Live on Patreon
  114. Control Ableton Live from your Guitar with Wireless Bluetooth
  115. How Jim Digby and the Event Safety Alliance Can Save Your Ass
  116. Use Automation to Build Relationships with a Free CRM
  117. Decimate Obstacles like Top Touring FOH Engineers
  118. The Sound Engineer’s Path Webinar
  119. Do You Have A Clear Path To Pro Audio?
  120. Get Ready! Slow August Is Right Around The Corner
  121. What a CPA, Bookkeeper, & Business Manager Can Do for Your Business
  122. The Minimalist Guide to Budgeting (for Sound Engineers)
  123. Frequency Coordination and Antenna Placement for a Rock-Solid Wireless Microphone System
  124. 3 Simple Ways That Busy Sound Engineers Can Protect Their Hearing
  125. Important Facts about Noise Induced Hearing Loss and How to Protect Yourself
  126. Merlijn van Veen and Understandable Misunderstandings
  127. How to Be a Remarkable Sound Engineer by Being Honest
  128. Sound Girls: Karrie Keyes and Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato
  129. Multi Channel Wireless Home Theater Sound Systems
  130. Conference Room Sound Design
  131. What is Audio Visual Integration?
  132. Live Sound Survival: Big Sound Out Of Small Systems
  133. Dancehall Sound System and How To Mix Music You’ve Never Heard
  134. How To Become The WORST Live Sound Engineer Ever
  135. Learn To Become A Recording Engineer Online
  136. One Simple Reason I Chose To Be An Audio Engineer Major
  137. Balls Of Steel: 10 Surprising Tips For Live Audio Engineer Training
  138. Learn A Language And Get A Job 5 Times Faster
  139. Keep Calm and…Too Late: the Concert from Hell
  140. Learn from the Sound Engineers for Tori Amos, Prodigy, and The White Stripes Online
  141. Be Your Own Attorney: The Smart Business Guide For Freelancers
  142. The Poor Man’s Galileo
  143. The Sound Engineer’s Pain-Free Guide To TurboTax
  144. Opening Up The Marketplace To Sound Engineers
  145. Save $500 On Your Taxes This Year
  146. 10 Critical Tax Questions Answered For Sound Engineers
  147. Honestly, Live Audio Is Not Based On Science
  148. 6 Smart, Proven Methods To Control Feedback Onstage (Without EQ)
  149. Kickstart This!
  150. Mixing The Biggest Festivals In Europe with Dave Swallow
  151. The Five Most Popular Posts of 2013
  152. How To Find Speaker Coverage In One Step
  153. BOOK REVIEW: Sound Systems: Design And Optimization by Bob McCarthy
  154. How To Tune A Sound System In 15 Minutes
  155. Tuning vs. Toning A Sound System
  156. Sound System Design And Optimization with Bob McCarthy
  157. Stealing Athlete Nutrition Techniques
  158. Behind Moldover’s Kickstarter Success
  159. BOOK REVIEW: Mediterranean Diet Cookbook For Dummies
  160. Healthy Eating On Tour
  161. Food And Drink At Work For Sound Engineers
  162. The State Of Sound Engineering In Greece
  163. Make A Living As A Sound Engineer, Part Two: How To Get Played
  164. Make A Living As A Sound Engineer, Part One: How To Get Paid
  165. Sound Design Live Podcast Greatest Hits Volume 1
  166. The Best Search Engines For Sound Engineer Jobs
  167. How To Automate Your Job Search
  168. Interview Tips: the S.T.A.R. Technique
  169. Beyond FOH: Job Search Advice For Sound Engineers
  170. Best Tips For Building A Career In Pro Audio
  171. Career Advice For Freelance Designers
  172. The Sound Design Live eBook Is Live!
  173. There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Microphone
  174. Condenser Microphone Review: Edwina
  175. Single Miking Groups On Stage With Condenser Microphones
  176. Condenser Microphones For Live Sound
  177. Condenser vs. Dynamic Microphones For Live Sound
  178. Sound Design Live eBook – FREE Chapter
  179. Sound Design Live Is Back!
  180. Easy Invoicing For Sound Engineers
  181. Show Networks and Control Systems
  182. From Highschool Dropout To Head Of Audio
  183. Larry Crane & Tape Op Magazine
  184. Cables Are Dead
  185. From Free To Fee – How To Incorporate Internet Streaming Into Your Live Event
  186. Laptops Do Not Make Live Sound Simpler
  187. It’s A Golden Age For Internet Broadcast
  188. Climbing The Ladder To Broadway Sound Designer
  189. Designing Without A Script
  190. Super Fun Instrument Design
  191. Turning Technology Into Performance
  192. Sound Design From The Actor’s Perspective
  193. Build A $100,000 Mixing Board
  194. How To Use Plugins with an Analog Console And Wireless Control
  195. Out Of Ideas? Just Add Reverb!
  196. Create Your Own Speaker Processing App + Sound Design Meets Computer Programming
  197. Sound Design for the Pulitzer Prize Winning Play “Ruined”
  198. FL Studio Rocks + Free Barbie Samples
  199. How To Mic An 800 Seat Theatre With Floor Mics
  200. Mixing For Emmylou Harris & Producing SXSW