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  • Aleš Štefančič (2)
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  • Nathan Lively (309)
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Recent Posts:

  1. IEM: The Recipe for Failure and How to Avoid It
  2. Sound System Setup: Why Subwoofer Crossover Alignment is Critical
  3. SubAligner Walk Through and Q&A
  4. How do we know if we have good data?
  5. Subwoofer alignment by ear??
  6. Why is the 125 Hz band so important?
  7. Sexual Harassment Is a Workplace Safety Issue
  8. How to Choose a Digital Console & Deal With Cranky Artists
  9. Stop Blindly Recommending Linkwitz-Riley Filters
  10. Nobody Cares Until the Shit Hits the Fan
  11. How to Set Subwoofer Delay (6 top brands agree)
  12. For the Best Concert Sound, Keep the LF Reverb Time Low
  13. Intro to Digital Wireless Intercom with Peter Erskine
  14. What happens if you’re not familiar with a speaker?
  15. Nothing in an audio analyzer tells you how good it sounds
  16. that moment when you realize monkeys are trying to steal your gear
  17. (remote) Home Theater Sound System Calibration with Smaart & Crosslite
  18. How to fight power alley using end-fire arrays
  19. How to phase align main to sub in Smaart, REW, Open Sound Meter, SATlive, and Crosslite
  20. How do you calculate cardioid subwoofer spacing? (gradient array)
  21. When will this ‘immersive’ fad be over?
  22. Subwoofer Alignment at The Redmoor Cincinnati
  23. EQ Your Vocal Reverb Return
  24. Single channel RTA targets to improve your mixes
  25. Do subwoofers need time alignment?
  26. d&b audiotechnik ArrayCalc vs SubAligner
  27. Know Your Audio Analyzer Averages
  28. Be Helpful From Anywhere in the World (pandemic or not)
  29. You Need A Sound System Preflight Checklist
  30. The Public Library of Loudspeaker Measurements
  31. 3 Biggest Takeaways from Live Sound Summit 2021
  32. How to Settle Arguments and Get a Job Using Prediction Software
  33. What do sub alignment sound waves look like?
  34. FOH Engineers: How to sneakily check your system tech’s work
  35. Building Virtual Mix Environments for Education
  36. How to use all-pass filters without a fancy DSP
  37. Can you remove reflections from live measurements for more accurate alignments?
  38. SubAligner vs. L-Acoustics Preset Guide (K2 + SB28, Kiva + SB15m)
  39. What we learned about the LV1 and loudness metering in DC
  40. Don’t Align Your Subwoofer to a Room Reflection
  41. How to Make a Stage Plot That Will Save You Time and Misunderstanding
  42. Best sound absorbing material: Rockwool, Audimute, or Furniture?
  43. The Difficult Balance of Hustle and Self-care for Live Event Technicians
  44. The 5%: Women in Pro Audio
  45. What (wo)men want: How IEM mixes differ by gender
  46. I’m Here to Make You Sound as Good as Possible
  47. Audio Analyzers: Pink Noise vs Sine Sweep
  48. Gradient vs Delta Subwoofer Array
  49. Right Now Is the Best Time to Build
  50. Gain Before Feedback Is Independent of the Level of the Talker
  51. Rog and Nathan’s 5-hour Show about End-fire vs Gradient Arrays
  52. 14 online courses on live sound mixing, RF, and system tuning
  53. The BEST subwoofer array for large concerts?
  54. Can you mix better on speakers with flat magnitude and phase?
  55. Does flipping a sub around also flip its polarity?
  56. Do cardioid subwoofer arrays work underneath a stage?
  57. 5 Things I Had to Learn When I Started Mixing IEMs
  58. You can’t predict subwoofer behavior in a room at 40Hz, but you can test it
  59. Conference Room Sound Design
  60. Compare 300 Different Microphones with Double-Blind Listening Tests from Your Own Studio
  61. Is your Dante network truly redundant?
  62. 22 Things I Learned or Overheard At Live Sound Summit 2020
  63. Use Smaart to Easily Create Your Own Personal Database of High-quality Near-Anechoic Measurements
  64. Will adding a crossover filter create better phase alignment between speakers from different families?
  65. How Dave Gunness Brought Single-Driver Cardioid Subs To Market
  66. Are you still trying to align your subwoofers with an audio analyzer?
  67. How Using Less EQ Can Stop Your Show from Sounding Horrible
  68. Can you estimate line array splay in the field without software while the riggers are waiting?
  69. 1 Graph Setting You Need to Change in Smaart for Faster EQ Decisions
  70. Can you match speakers through space and time? (🍎to🍎)
  71. Is it better to face your subs at the wall?
  72. Does every output in the signal chain need a high-pass filter?
  73. What You Should Know About Communication And Trust Between Artists And Sound Engineers
  74. Do ground stacked subwoofers really give you 6dB for free?
  75. How to take fast impulse response measurements in Smaart© without pissing people off
  76. How to develop a habit of logical troubleshooting, piece-by-piece
  77. Guess How Many Measurements Positions You Need for Proper Output EQ (it’s more than 1!)
  78. My most popular posts of 2019
  79. How far apart can I space my subwoofers?
  80. Merlijn’s Subwoofer Alignment Method Will Make You Feel like a Jedi Master
  81. Dave Rat’s End-Fire Adjustable Arc Subwoofer Array Explained
  82. How to Estimate Delay and Level Offset Between Speakers in Your 3D Models
  83. Dave Rat’s Simple Problem Solving Mindset for a Long Fulfilling Career in Pro Audio
  84. Console Prep: Simplicity is Key (FREE lesson from Guerrilla Mixing on Digital Consoles)
  85. Choosing an online mixing course: Essential Live Sound Training vs Guerrilla Mixing
  86. Should audience depth influence crossover frequency between main and sub?
  87. MYTH: FIR filters always add a lot of delay and are impractical for live sound
  88. 6 Smart, Proven Methods To Control Feedback Onstage (Without EQ)
  89. How an improperly connected motor cable arced up the chain and almost ended in disaster
  90. This iPhone App Helps Musicians Mix Themselves from Stage
  91. Spot Crossover Slopes in Smaart® and Avoid Falling Sharply
  92. 120 Minutes of Sound System Tuning Q&A
  93. Sound system design for the largest public event in Philadelphia’s history: The Eagles Super Bowl Parade
  94. Do all-pass and FIR filters cause delay?
  95. How To Tune A Sound System In 15 Minutes
  96. Fighting Microphone Feedback WITHOUT a Graphic EQ While Mixing Monitors from FOH in a Reverberant Room
  97. 3 EQ Snapshots That Will Make Your Corporate Event Mics More Transparent Using Smaart®: SM58, 185, MX412
  98. Invasion of the Phase Invaders: An Audio Engineer’s Guide to Battle Tactics and Big Scores
  99. Smaart® Beta: Will the new filter control in the delay finder help with your main+sub alignment?
  100. If Poor Speaker Choice and Placement Were a Crime, We’d All Go to Jail
  101. 3-Step Configuration Hack to Get up and Running Fast with Smaart® v8 Beta
  102. How to Measure and Treat Resonances like Room Modes and Standing Waves with Smaart®
  103. INFOGRAPHIC: Create an IEM Link Budget to Avoid RF Dropout and Overload
  104. INFOGRAPHIC: How to Avoid RF Dropout and Overload with a Wireless Microphone Link Budget
  105. 3 Common Antenna Placement Mistakes and How to Fix Them [Infographic]
  106. Real World troubleshooting tips for wireless microphone and In-ear-monitor dropouts and interference
  107. How to Time Align Your Main to Your Front Fill Using Smaart® Live IR
  108. If you’re using audio over IT, but you don’t know how it works, you will fail.
  109. 6 things I’m looking forward to at Live Sound Summit 2019
  110. What’s the difference between Broadway and Rock ‘n’ Roll to a system tech?
  111. How to maximize gain before feedback of a podium microphone using Smaart®
  112. This secret weapon will make a Profile sound like no other Profile you’ve heard before
  113. Create a sound system tuning checklist and map before your next show
  114. How to use a custom weighting curve in Smaart® and why I don’t recommend it
  115. Phase Alignment Science Academy Handbook: Introduction
  116. What is the best sounding target EQ curve to use in Smaart® on every show?
  117. 9 Smaart® shortcuts that will make your life easier
  118. I made sure every sound engineer, tour manager, and production manager knew I wanted to tour
  119. How to place and aim your stage monitors for maximum rejection
  120. What do I need to know about my speakers?
  121. How to flatten the phase for easier main+sub alignment
  122. How to set the limiter threshold on a DBX PA2 so you don’t blow up your speakers
  123. How to practice reading phase traces when you don’t have a PA
  124. Smaart®: Tracking peak frequency without the mouse cursor
  125. Bob McCarthy: Where do I place my delay towers?
  126. Analysis: How to Tune a PA System for Live Sound
  127. Moving from Discord to Mighty Networks
  128. How Robert Scovill Got Fired by John Cougar Mellancamp and Hired by Prince
  129. What do all of those squiggly lines mean? (a short intro to the graphs in Smaart®)
  130. How To Find Work And Become A Freelance Sound Engineer
  131. Why Andrew Stone Only Mixes For Himself
  132. Stop Smaarting the Sound System
  133. 6 Most Popular Training Videos on Sound System Tuning
  134. How Jamie Anderson Saves Time in System Tuning with Smaart® Check Points
  135. Why is wireless so hard?!
  136. Recovering from Burnout and Avoiding Overwhelm
  137. Get On Tour – Download FREE for 1 week
  138. Guerrilla Mixing
  139. Tomas Wolfe and the FOH/MON Facebook Group
  140. Quick Monitor Mixes – guerrilla style
  141. You might be guerrilla mixing, if…
  142. Why Touring Sound Engineers Are Getting Paid Less
  143. Mixing Monitors for Tears for Fears
  144. Essential Live Sound Training with Scott Adamson [REVIEW]
  145. Dan Dugan and the Birth of the Automatic Microphone Mixer
  146. Bobby Owsinski: Why Do Concerts Sound So Bad?
  147. How to build your own audio analyzer (like Smaart®) for FREE
  148. Simple Ideas to Improve Acoustics in Recording Studios and Concert Halls
  149. FOH Mixing: EQ it till it sounds good
  150. Smaart is just a tool. You are the analyzer.
  151. This is why I no longer recommend turning one sub off to fight power alley
  152. Download the DiGiCo Session Setup Checklist
  153. Top 5 Common Mistakes When Using a DiGiCo Console
  154. I want to build a marketplace for corporate AV techs
  155. Everything I Feared about Digico Consoles Is Wrong
  156. Get More Work as a Live Sound Engineer by Doing What No One Else Will
  157. 5 Pro Drummers Explain How to Make a Drum Kit Quieter on Stage
  158. Review of Live Sound Basics
  159. Best Free and Paid Online Training Webinars, Courses, and Certifications for Live Sound Engineers
  160. This Is How to Find the Perfect Show Volume Without an SPL Meter
  161. My Results from 30 Days of Ear Training
  162. Get Booked Solid in Pro Audio
  163. This Marketer Will Make You Look at Your Career Totally Differently
  164. How Much Do Live Sound Engineers Make?
  165. How To Become A Sound Engineer
  166. Where do clients come from?
  167. How to Be a Self-Starter in the Audio Industry
  168. 9 Tips for Easy In-Ear Monitor Setup
  169. Americans Like a Lot of Bass
  170. One Simple Tool to Find the Right Size Speaker for Any Space
  171. Inside Pro Audio Workshop: Seeing Sound
  172. Get 12 Weeks of Coaching in 5 Minutes
  173. Find a Live Sound Engineer Anywhere in the World
  174. Lively start to ‘Surviving to Thriving’ coaching course
  175. Where do I put the measurement microphone?
  176. Audio Calculators for Sound System Tuning
  177. How to Find Polarity Problems Ruining Your Sound System
  178. 3 Phase Alignment Hacks to Make Your Sound System Tuning Easier
  179. This Is Why You Are Over EQing
  180. Meet ZOID, the sound system tuning chatbot
  181. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 4
  182. Create an Explosion of Reverb for Magical Song Transitions
  183. The Amazing Capacity and Limitation of the X32 with Drew Brashler
  184. Use a Ducker to Get Your Vocals (and your kick!) in the Pocket
  185. Give Me MORE Kick! This effect saved the day.
  186. How to Update Snapshots on the SD5 in the Middle of a Show
  187. Make Space for Bass in Your Ableton Live Mixes
  188. Help, I can’t hear the vocal! Waves Vocal Rider Plugin to the rescue.
  189. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 3
  190. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 2
  191. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 1
  192. Mauricio Ramirez: Trust your ears, not just the audio analyzer
  193. How to Mix Intuitively Using Daily Ear Training Games
  194. How to Become a World Class Audio Engineer (if I had to start all over)
  195. Mixing Monitors from FOH: 17 lessons I learned from Grealy at Soulsound
  196. 3 Simple Ways to Phase Align Main+Sub with SATlive
  197. Live Training Webinar: Gigs on Demand
  198. Do you want a job as a touring FOH sound engineer? You need to hear this.
  199. Behind the Scenes of the Ringling Brothers Circus Sound System
  200. Top 5 Posts of 2016
  201. SATlive + Thomas Neumann: Sound system tuning with a single measurement microphone
  202. SIM3 is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to do with that data.
  203. Circus Touring with 21 Channels of Sim 3 Audio Analyzer
  204. My two favorite features of the Digico SD5 faders
  205. Emergency Digico SD5 Optocore Procedures
  206. Start offering podcast production services to your clients
  207. Position Yourself for Non-stop Touring as a Stage Manager and Lighting Technician
  208. Is IATSE worthwhile for sound engineers?
  209. Networking and Referral Strategy for Sound Engineers
  210. Are you a sound engineer or an artist?
  211. Content Marketing Strategy for Freelance Audio Engineers
  212. Build self-confidence for better productivity with this simple habit of relaxation
  213. Growth Hack 2016: 13-Day Career Building Challenge
  214. Silence: The secret ingredient to sound design in advertising
  215. What your parents never taught you about money
  216. Don’t sell services; sell solutions
  217. Mixing the most difficult musical on Broadway: Rock of Ages
  218. SynAudCon “How Sound Systems Work” online training REVIEW
  219. ATTENTION, MUSICIANS: You need to figure out where money is made.
  220. The easiest, cheapest, most valuable technique for long-term business success
  221. Turn Your iPhone into a Wireless Microphone
  222. For Live Sound Engineers: Surprisingly Simple Tips to Prevent Back Injury on the Job
  223. SPECIAL REPORT: Sound System Design for Small Venues with Bob McCarthy
  224. 11 Professional Networking Improvements You Can Make Today to Find Work in a New Niche
  225. One Critical Skill You Need to Get Stage Theatre Jobs: How Surrey University Is Training Audio Engineers
  226. The good, the bad, and the ugly of being a Tour Managing FOH Engineer
  227. How to be Unstoppable
  228. The Graveyard Shift: How Mike Rauchfleisch Built a Thriving Audio Business by Working All-night Parties That No One Else Wanted
  229. 360˚ Interactive Live Video Streaming with Zero Crew
  230. Support Sound Design Live on Patreon
  231. Control Ableton Live from your Guitar with Wireless Bluetooth
  232. How Jim Digby and the Event Safety Alliance Can Save Your Ass
  233. Use Automation to Build Relationships with a Free CRM
  234. Decimate Obstacles like Top Touring FOH Engineers
  235. The Sound Engineer’s Path Webinar
  236. Do You Have A Clear Path To Pro Audio?
  237. Get Ready! Slow August Is Right Around The Corner
  238. What a CPA, Bookkeeper, & Business Manager Can Do for Your Business
  239. The Minimalist Guide to Budgeting (for Sound Engineers)
  240. Frequency Coordination and Antenna Placement for a Rock-Solid Wireless Microphone System
  241. 3 Simple Ways That Busy Sound Engineers Can Protect Their Hearing
  242. Important Facts about Noise Induced Hearing Loss and How to Protect Yourself
  243. Merlijn van Veen and Understandable Misunderstandings
  244. How to Be a Remarkable Sound Engineer by Being Honest
  245. Sound Girls: Karrie Keyes and Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato
  246. Multi Channel Wireless Home Theater Sound Systems
  247. What is Audio Visual Integration?
  248. Live Sound Survival: Big Sound Out Of Small Systems
  249. Dancehall Sound System and How To Mix Music You’ve Never Heard
  250. How To Become The WORST Live Sound Engineer Ever
  251. Learn To Become A Recording Engineer Online
  252. One Simple Reason I Chose To Be An Audio Engineer Major
  253. Balls Of Steel: 10 Surprising Tips For Live Audio Engineer Training
  254. Learn A Language And Get A Job 5 Times Faster
  255. Keep Calm and…Too Late: the Concert from Hell
  256. Learn from the Sound Engineers for Tori Amos, Prodigy, and The White Stripes Online
  257. Be Your Own Attorney: The Smart Business Guide For Freelancers
  258. The Poor Man’s Galileo
  259. The Sound Engineer’s Pain-Free Guide To TurboTax
  260. Opening Up The Marketplace To Sound Engineers
  261. Save $500 On Your Taxes This Year
  262. 10 Critical Tax Questions Answered For Sound Engineers
  263. Honestly, Live Audio Is Not Based On Science
  264. Kickstart This!
  265. Mixing The Biggest Festivals In Europe with Dave Swallow
  266. The Five Most Popular Posts of 2013
  267. How To Find Speaker Coverage In One Step
  268. BOOK REVIEW: Sound Systems: Design And Optimization by Bob McCarthy
  269. Tuning vs. Toning A Sound System
  270. Sound System Design And Optimization with Bob McCarthy
  271. Stealing Athlete Nutrition Techniques
  272. Behind Moldover’s Kickstarter Success
  273. BOOK REVIEW: Mediterranean Diet Cookbook For Dummies
  274. Healthy Eating On Tour
  275. Food And Drink At Work For Sound Engineers
  276. The State Of Sound Engineering In Greece
  277. Make A Living As A Sound Engineer, Part Two: How To Get Played
  278. Make A Living As A Sound Engineer, Part One: How To Get Paid
  279. Sound Design Live Podcast Greatest Hits Volume 1
  280. The Best Search Engines For Sound Engineer Jobs
  281. How To Automate Your Job Search
  282. Interview Tips: the S.T.A.R. Technique
  283. Beyond FOH: Job Search Advice For Sound Engineers
  284. Best Tips For Building A Career In Pro Audio
  285. Career Advice For Freelance Designers
  286. The Sound Design Live eBook Is Live!
  287. There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Microphone
  288. Condenser Microphone Review: Edwina
  289. Single Miking Groups On Stage With Condenser Microphones
  290. Condenser Microphones For Live Sound
  291. Condenser vs. Dynamic Microphones For Live Sound
  292. Sound Design Live eBook – FREE Chapter
  293. Sound Design Live Is Back!
  294. Easy Invoicing For Sound Engineers
  295. Show Networks and Control Systems
  296. From Highschool Dropout To Head Of Audio
  297. Larry Crane & Tape Op Magazine
  298. Cables Are Dead
  299. From Free To Fee – How To Incorporate Internet Streaming Into Your Live Event
  300. Laptops Do Not Make Live Sound Simpler
  301. It’s A Golden Age For Internet Broadcast
  302. Climbing The Ladder To Broadway Sound Designer
  303. Designing Without A Script
  304. Super Fun Instrument Design
  305. Turning Technology Into Performance
  306. Sound Design From The Actor’s Perspective
  307. Build A $100,000 Mixing Board
  308. How To Use Plugins with an Analog Console And Wireless Control
  309. Out Of Ideas? Just Add Reverb!
  310. Create Your Own Speaker Processing App + Sound Design Meets Computer Programming
  311. Sound Design for the Pulitzer Prize Winning Play “Ruined”
  312. FL Studio Rocks + Free Barbie Samples
  313. How To Mic An 800 Seat Theatre With Floor Mics
  314. Mixing For Emmylou Harris & Producing SXSW
  315. Use Subtitles To Reinforce Localization In Your Surround Sound Installation
  316. Perfect Club Sound – Dance Music Kills? – What is Serato?

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