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  • Aleš Štefančič (2)
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  • Nathan Lively (312)
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Recent Posts:

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

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