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Recent Posts:

  1. How far apart can I space my subwoofers?
  2. Merlijn’s Subwoofer Alignment Method Will Make You Feel like a Jedi Master
  3. Dave Rat’s End-Fire Adjustable Arc Subwoofer Array Explained
  4. How to Estimate Delay and Level Offset Between Speakers in Your 3D Models
  5. Dave Rat’s Simple Problem Solving Mindset for a Long Fulfilling Career in Pro Audio
  6. Console Prep: Simplicity is Key (FREE lesson from Guerrilla Mixing on Digital Consoles)
  7. Choosing an online mixing course: Essential Live Sound Training vs Guerrilla Mixing
  8. Should audience depth influence crossover frequency between main and sub?
  9. MYTH: FIR filters always add a lot of delay and are impractical for live sound
  10. 6 Smart, Proven Methods To Control Feedback Onstage (Without EQ)
  11. How an improperly connected motor cable arced up the chain and almost ended in disaster
  12. This iPhone App Helps Musicians Mix Themselves from Stage
  13. Spot Crossover Slopes in Smaart® and Avoid Falling Sharply
  14. 120 Minutes of Sound System Tuning Q&A
  15. Sound system design for the largest public event in Philadelphia’s history: The Eagles Super Bowl Parade
  16. Do all-pass and FIR filters cause delay?
  17. How To Tune A Sound System In 15 Minutes
  18. Fighting Microphone Feedback WITHOUT a Graphic EQ While Mixing Monitors from FOH in a Reverberant Room
  19. 3 EQ Snapshots That Will Make Your Corporate Event Mics More Transparent Using Smaart®: SM58, 185, MX412
  20. Invasion of the Phase Invaders: An Audio Engineer’s Guide to Battle Tactics and Big Scores
  21. Smaart® Beta: Will the new filter control in the delay finder help with your main+sub alignment?
  22. If Poor Speaker Choice and Placement Were a Crime, We’d All Go to Jail
  23. 3-Step Configuration Hack to Get up and Running Fast with Smaart® v8 Beta
  24. How to Measure and Treat Resonances like Room Modes and Standing Waves with Smaart®
  25. INFOGRAPHIC: Create an IEM Link Budget to Avoid RF Dropout and Overload
  26. INFOGRAPHIC: How to Avoid RF Dropout and Overload with a Wireless Microphone Link Budget
  27. 3 Common Antenna Placement Mistakes and How to Fix Them [Infographic]
  28. Real World troubleshooting tips for wireless microphone and In-ear-monitor dropouts and interference
  29. How to Time Align Your Main to Your Front Fill Using Smaart® Live IR
  30. If you’re using audio over IT, but you don’t know how it works, you will fail.
  31. 6 things I’m looking forward to at Live Sound Summit 2019
  32. What’s the difference between Broadway and Rock ‘n’ Roll to a system tech?
  33. How to maximize gain before feedback of a podium microphone using Smaart®
  34. This secret weapon will make a Profile sound like no other Profile you’ve heard before
  35. Create a sound system tuning checklist and map before your next show
  36. How to use a custom weighting curve in Smaart® and why I don’t recommend it
  37. Phase Alignment Science Academy Handbook: Introduction
  38. What is the best sounding target EQ curve to use in Smaart® on every show?
  39. 9 Smaart® shortcuts that will make your life easier
  40. I made sure every sound engineer, tour manager, and production manager knew I wanted to tour
  41. How to place and aim your stage monitors for maximum rejection
  42. What do I need to know about my speakers?
  43. How to flatten the phase for easier main+sub alignment
  44. How to set the limiter threshold on a DBX PA2 so you don’t blow up your speakers
  45. How to practice reading phase traces when you don’t have a PA
  46. Smaart®: Tracking peak frequency without the mouse cursor
  47. Bob McCarthy: Where do I place my delay towers?
  48. Analysis: How to Tune a PA System for Live Sound
  49. Moving from Discord to Mighty Networks
  50. How Robert Scovill Got Fired by John Cougar Mellancamp and Hired by Prince
  51. What do all of those squiggly lines mean? (a short intro to the graphs in Smaart®)
  52. How To Find Work And Become A Freelance Sound Engineer
  53. Why Andrew Stone Only Mixes For Himself
  54. Stop Smaarting the Sound System
  55. 6 Most Popular Training Videos on Sound System Tuning
  56. How Jamie Anderson Saves Time in System Tuning with Smaart® Check Points
  57. Why is wireless so hard?!
  58. Recovering from Burnout and Avoiding Overwhelm
  59. Get On Tour – Download FREE for 1 week
  60. Guerrilla Mixing
  61. Tomas Wolfe and the FOH/MON Facebook Group
  62. Quick Monitor Mixes – guerrilla style
  63. You might be guerrilla mixing, if…
  64. Why Touring Sound Engineers Are Getting Paid Less
  65. Mixing Monitors for Tears for Fears
  66. Essential Live Sound Training with Scott Adamson [REVIEW]
  67. Dan Dugan and the Birth of the Automatic Microphone Mixer
  68. Bobby Owsinski: Why Do Concerts Sound So Bad?
  69. How to build your own audio analyzer (like Smaart®) for FREE
  70. Simple Ideas to Improve Acoustics in Recording Studios and Concert Halls
  71. FOH Mixing: EQ it till it sounds good
  72. Smaart is just a tool. You are the analyzer.
  73. This is why I no longer recommend turning one sub off to fight power alley
  74. Download the DiGiCo Session Setup Checklist
  75. Top 5 Common Mistakes When Using a DiGiCo Console
  76. I want to build a marketplace for corporate AV techs
  77. Everything I Feared about Digico Consoles Is Wrong
  78. Get More Work as a Live Sound Engineer by Doing What No One Else Will
  79. 5 Pro Drummers Explain How to Make a Drum Kit Quieter on Stage
  80. Review of Live Sound Basics
  81. Best Free and Paid Online Training Webinars, Courses, and Certifications for Live Sound Engineers
  82. This Is How to Find the Perfect Show Volume Without an SPL Meter
  83. My Results from 30 Days of Ear Training
  84. Get Booked Solid in Pro Audio
  85. How Anthony Went From Warehouse Tech to FOH Mixer For Cirque Du Soleil
  86. This Marketer Will Make You Look at Your Career Totally Differently
  87. How Much Do Live Sound Engineers Make?
  88. How To Become A Sound Engineer
  89. Where do clients come from?
  90. How to Be a Self-Starter in the Audio Industry
  91. 9 Tips for Easy In-Ear Monitor Setup
  92. Americans Like a Lot of Bass
  93. One Simple Tool to Find the Right Size Speaker for Any Space
  94. Inside Pro Audio Workshop: Seeing Sound
  95. Get 12 Weeks of Coaching in 5 Minutes
  96. Find a Live Sound Engineer Anywhere in the World
  97. Lively start to ‘Surviving to Thriving’ coaching course
  98. Where do I put the measurement microphone?
  99. Audio Calculators for Sound System Tuning
  100. How to Find Polarity Problems Ruining Your Sound System
  101. 3 Phase Alignment Hacks to Make Your Sound System Tuning Easier
  102. This Is Why You Are Over EQing
  103. Meet ZOID, the sound system tuning chatbot
  104. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 4
  105. Create an Explosion of Reverb for Magical Song Transitions
  106. The Amazing Capacity and Limitation of the X32 with Drew Brashler
  107. Use a Ducker to Get Your Vocals (and your kick!) in the Pocket
  108. Give Me MORE Kick! This effect saved the day.
  109. How to Update Snapshots on the SD5 in the Middle of a Show
  110. Make Space for Bass in Your Ableton Live Mixes
  111. Help, I can’t hear the vocal! Waves Vocal Rider Plugin to the rescue.
  112. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 3
  113. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 2
  114. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 1
  115. Mauricio Ramirez: Trust your ears, not just the audio analyzer
  116. How to Mix Intuitively Using Daily Ear Training Games
  117. How to Become a World Class Audio Engineer (if I had to start all over)
  118. Mixing Monitors from FOH: 17 lessons I learned from Grealy at Soulsound
  119. 3 Simple Ways to Phase Align Main+Sub with SATlive
  120. Live Training Webinar: Gigs on Demand
  121. Do you want a job as a touring FOH sound engineer? You need to hear this.
  122. Behind the Scenes of the Ringling Brothers Circus Sound System
  123. Top 5 Posts of 2016
  124. SATlive + Thomas Neumann: Sound system tuning with a single measurement microphone
  125. SIM3 is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to do with that data.
  126. Circus Touring with 21 Channels of Sim 3 Audio Analyzer
  127. My two favorite features of the Digico SD5 faders
  128. Emergency Digico SD5 Optocore Procedures
  129. Start offering podcast production services to your clients
  130. Position Yourself for Non-stop Touring as a Stage Manager and Lighting Technician
  131. Is IATSE worthwhile for sound engineers?
  132. Networking and Referral Strategy for Sound Engineers
  133. Are you a sound engineer or an artist?
  134. Content Marketing Strategy for Freelance Audio Engineers
  135. Build self-confidence for better productivity with this simple habit of relaxation
  136. Growth Hack 2016: 13-Day Career Building Challenge
  137. Silence: The secret ingredient to sound design in advertising
  138. What your parents never taught you about money
  139. Don’t sell services; sell solutions
  140. Mixing the most difficult musical on Broadway: Rock of Ages
  141. SynAudCon “How Sound Systems Work” online training REVIEW
  142. ATTENTION, MUSICIANS: You need to figure out where money is made.
  143. The easiest, cheapest, most valuable technique for long-term business success
  144. Turn Your iPhone into a Wireless Microphone
  145. For Live Sound Engineers: Surprisingly Simple Tips to Prevent Back Injury on the Job
  146. SPECIAL REPORT: Sound System Design for Small Venues with Bob McCarthy
  147. 11 Professional Networking Improvements You Can Make Today to Find Work in a New Niche
  148. One Critical Skill You Need to Get Stage Theatre Jobs: How Surrey University Is Training Audio Engineers
  149. The good, the bad, and the ugly of being a Tour Managing FOH Engineer
  150. How to be Unstoppable
  151. The Graveyard Shift: How Mike Rauchfleisch Built a Thriving Audio Business by Working All-night Parties That No One Else Wanted
  152. 360˚ Interactive Live Video Streaming with Zero Crew
  153. Support Sound Design Live on Patreon
  154. Control Ableton Live from your Guitar with Wireless Bluetooth
  155. How Jim Digby and the Event Safety Alliance Can Save Your Ass
  156. Use Automation to Build Relationships with a Free CRM
  157. Decimate Obstacles like Top Touring FOH Engineers
  158. The Sound Engineer’s Path Webinar
  159. Do You Have A Clear Path To Pro Audio?
  160. Get Ready! Slow August Is Right Around The Corner
  161. What a CPA, Bookkeeper, & Business Manager Can Do for Your Business
  162. The Minimalist Guide to Budgeting (for Sound Engineers)
  163. Frequency Coordination and Antenna Placement for a Rock-Solid Wireless Microphone System
  164. 3 Simple Ways That Busy Sound Engineers Can Protect Their Hearing
  165. Important Facts about Noise Induced Hearing Loss and How to Protect Yourself
  166. Merlijn van Veen and Understandable Misunderstandings
  167. How to Be a Remarkable Sound Engineer by Being Honest
  168. Sound Girls: Karrie Keyes and Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato
  169. Multi Channel Wireless Home Theater Sound Systems
  170. Conference Room Sound Design
  171. What is Audio Visual Integration?
  172. Live Sound Survival: Big Sound Out Of Small Systems
  173. Dancehall Sound System and How To Mix Music You’ve Never Heard
  174. How To Become The WORST Live Sound Engineer Ever
  175. Learn To Become A Recording Engineer Online
  176. One Simple Reason I Chose To Be An Audio Engineer Major
  177. Balls Of Steel: 10 Surprising Tips For Live Audio Engineer Training
  178. Learn A Language And Get A Job 5 Times Faster
  179. Keep Calm and…Too Late: the Concert from Hell
  180. Learn from the Sound Engineers for Tori Amos, Prodigy, and The White Stripes Online
  181. Be Your Own Attorney: The Smart Business Guide For Freelancers
  182. The Poor Man’s Galileo
  183. The Sound Engineer’s Pain-Free Guide To TurboTax
  184. Opening Up The Marketplace To Sound Engineers
  185. Save $500 On Your Taxes This Year
  186. 10 Critical Tax Questions Answered For Sound Engineers
  187. Honestly, Live Audio Is Not Based On Science
  188. Kickstart This!
  189. Mixing The Biggest Festivals In Europe with Dave Swallow
  190. The Five Most Popular Posts of 2013
  191. How To Find Speaker Coverage In One Step
  192. BOOK REVIEW: Sound Systems: Design And Optimization by Bob McCarthy
  193. Tuning vs. Toning A Sound System
  194. Sound System Design And Optimization with Bob McCarthy
  195. Stealing Athlete Nutrition Techniques
  196. Behind Moldover’s Kickstarter Success
  197. BOOK REVIEW: Mediterranean Diet Cookbook For Dummies
  198. Healthy Eating On Tour
  199. Food And Drink At Work For Sound Engineers
  200. The State Of Sound Engineering In Greece

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