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Recent Posts:
- Sexual Harassment Is a Workplace Safety Issue
- How to Choose a Digital Console & Deal With Cranky Artists
- Stop Blindly Recommending Linkwitz-Riley Filters
- Nobody Cares Until the Shit Hits the Fan
- How to Set Subwoofer Delay (6 top brands agree)
- For the Best Concert Sound, Keep the LF Reverb Time Low
- Intro to Digital Wireless Intercom with Peter Erskine
- What happens if you’re not familiar with a speaker?
- Nothing in an audio analyzer tells you how good it sounds
- that moment when you realize monkeys are trying to steal your gear
- (remote) Home Theater Sound System Calibration with Smaart & Crosslite
- How to fight power alley using end-fire arrays
- How to phase align main to sub in Smaart, REW, Open Sound Meter, SATlive, and Crosslite
- How do you calculate cardioid subwoofer spacing? (gradient array)
- When will this ‘immersive’ fad be over?
- Subwoofer Alignment at The Redmoor Cincinnati
- EQ Your Vocal Reverb Return
- Single channel RTA targets to improve your mixes
- Do subwoofers need time alignment?
- d&b audiotechnik ArrayCalc vs SubAligner
- Know Your Audio Analyzer Averages
- Be Helpful From Anywhere in the World (pandemic or not)
- You Need A Sound System Preflight Checklist
- The Public Library of Loudspeaker Measurements
- 3 Biggest Takeaways from Live Sound Summit 2021
- How to Settle Arguments and Get a Job Using Prediction Software
- What do sub alignment sound waves look like?
- FOH Engineers: How to sneakily check your system tech’s work
- Building Virtual Mix Environments for Education
- How to use all-pass filters without a fancy DSP
- Can you remove reflections from live measurements for more accurate alignments?
- SubAligner vs. L-Acoustics Preset Guide (K2 + SB28, Kiva + SB15m)
- What we learned about the LV1 and loudness metering in DC
- Don’t Align Your Subwoofer to a Room Reflection
- How to Make a Stage Plot That Will Save You Time and Misunderstanding
- Best sound absorbing material: Rockwool, Audimute, or Furniture?
- The Difficult Balance of Hustle and Self-care for Live Event Technicians
- The 5%: Women in Pro Audio
- What (wo)men want: How IEM mixes differ by gender
- I’m Here to Make You Sound as Good as Possible
- Audio Analyzers: Pink Noise vs Sine Sweep
- Gradient vs Delta Subwoofer Array
- Right Now Is the Best Time to Build
- Gain Before Feedback Is Independent of the Level of the Talker
- Rog and Nathan’s 5-hour Show about End-fire vs Gradient Arrays
- 14 online courses on live sound mixing, RF, and system tuning
- The BEST subwoofer array for large concerts?
- Can you mix better on speakers with flat magnitude and phase?
- Does flipping a sub around also flip its polarity?
- Do cardioid subwoofer arrays work underneath a stage?
- 5 Things I Had to Learn When I Started Mixing IEMs
- You can’t predict subwoofer behavior in a room at 40Hz, but you can test it
- Conference Room Sound Design
- Compare 300 Different Microphones with Double-Blind Listening Tests from Your Own Studio
- Is your Dante network truly redundant?
- 22 Things I Learned or Overheard At Live Sound Summit 2020
- Use Smaart to Easily Create Your Own Personal Database of High-quality Near-Anechoic Measurements
- Will adding a crossover filter create better phase alignment between speakers from different families?
- How Dave Gunness Brought Single-Driver Cardioid Subs To Market
- Are you still trying to align your subwoofers with an audio analyzer?
- How Using Less EQ Can Stop Your Show from Sounding Horrible
- Can you estimate line array splay in the field without software while the riggers are waiting?
- 1 Graph Setting You Need to Change in Smaart for Faster EQ Decisions
- Can you match speakers through space and time? (🍎to🍎)
- Is it better to face your subs at the wall?
- Does every output in the signal chain need a high-pass filter?
- What You Should Know About Communication And Trust Between Artists And Sound Engineers
- Do ground stacked subwoofers really give you 6dB for free?
- How to take fast impulse response measurements in Smaart© without pissing people off
- How to develop a habit of logical troubleshooting, piece-by-piece
- Guess How Many Measurements Positions You Need for Proper Output EQ (it’s more than 1!)
- My most popular posts of 2019
- How far apart can I space my subwoofers?
- Merlijn’s Subwoofer Alignment Method Will Make You Feel like a Jedi Master
- Dave Rat’s End-Fire Adjustable Arc Subwoofer Array Explained
- How to Estimate Delay and Level Offset Between Speakers in Your 3D Models
- Dave Rat’s Simple Problem Solving Mindset for a Long Fulfilling Career in Pro Audio
- Console Prep: Simplicity is Key (FREE lesson from Guerrilla Mixing on Digital Consoles)
- Choosing an online mixing course: Essential Live Sound Training vs Guerrilla Mixing
- Should audience depth influence crossover frequency between main and sub?
- MYTH: FIR filters always add a lot of delay and are impractical for live sound
- 6 Smart, Proven Methods To Control Feedback Onstage (Without EQ)
- How an improperly connected motor cable arced up the chain and almost ended in disaster
- This iPhone App Helps Musicians Mix Themselves from Stage
- Spot Crossover Slopes in Smaart® and Avoid Falling Sharply
- 120 Minutes of Sound System Tuning Q&A
- Sound system design for the largest public event in Philadelphia’s history: The Eagles Super Bowl Parade
- Do all-pass and FIR filters cause delay?
- How To Tune A Sound System In 15 Minutes
- Fighting Microphone Feedback WITHOUT a Graphic EQ While Mixing Monitors from FOH in a Reverberant Room
- 3 EQ Snapshots That Will Make Your Corporate Event Mics More Transparent Using Smaart®: SM58, 185, MX412
- Invasion of the Phase Invaders: An Audio Engineer’s Guide to Battle Tactics and Big Scores
- Smaart® Beta: Will the new filter control in the delay finder help with your main+sub alignment?
- If Poor Speaker Choice and Placement Were a Crime, We’d All Go to Jail
- 3-Step Configuration Hack to Get up and Running Fast with Smaart® v8 Beta
- How to Measure and Treat Resonances like Room Modes and Standing Waves with Smaart®
- INFOGRAPHIC: Create an IEM Link Budget to Avoid RF Dropout and Overload
- INFOGRAPHIC: How to Avoid RF Dropout and Overload with a Wireless Microphone Link Budget
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- How to Time Align Your Main to Your Front Fill Using Smaart® Live IR
- If you’re using audio over IT, but you don’t know how it works, you will fail.
- 6 things I’m looking forward to at Live Sound Summit 2019
- What’s the difference between Broadway and Rock ‘n’ Roll to a system tech?
- How to maximize gain before feedback of a podium microphone using Smaart®
- This secret weapon will make a Profile sound like no other Profile you’ve heard before
- Create a sound system tuning checklist and map before your next show
- How to use a custom weighting curve in Smaart® and why I don’t recommend it
- Phase Alignment Science Academy Handbook: Introduction
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- 9 Smaart® shortcuts that will make your life easier
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- How to place and aim your stage monitors for maximum rejection
- What do I need to know about my speakers?
- How to flatten the phase for easier main+sub alignment
- How to set the limiter threshold on a DBX PA2 so you don’t blow up your speakers
- How to practice reading phase traces when you don’t have a PA
- Smaart®: Tracking peak frequency without the mouse cursor
- Bob McCarthy: Where do I place my delay towers?
- Analysis: How to Tune a PA System for Live Sound
- Moving from Discord to Mighty Networks
- How Robert Scovill Got Fired by John Cougar Mellancamp and Hired by Prince
- What do all of those squiggly lines mean? (a short intro to the graphs in Smaart®)
- How To Find Work And Become A Freelance Sound Engineer
- Why Andrew Stone Only Mixes For Himself
- Stop Smaarting the Sound System
- 6 Most Popular Training Videos on Sound System Tuning
- How Jamie Anderson Saves Time in System Tuning with Smaart® Check Points
- Why is wireless so hard?!
- Recovering from Burnout and Avoiding Overwhelm
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- Guerrilla Mixing
- Tomas Wolfe and the FOH/MON Facebook Group
- Quick Monitor Mixes – guerrilla style
- You might be guerrilla mixing, if…
- Why Touring Sound Engineers Are Getting Paid Less
- Mixing Monitors for Tears for Fears
- Essential Live Sound Training with Scott Adamson [REVIEW]
- Dan Dugan and the Birth of the Automatic Microphone Mixer
- Bobby Owsinski: Why Do Concerts Sound So Bad?
- How to build your own audio analyzer (like Smaart®) for FREE
- Simple Ideas to Improve Acoustics in Recording Studios and Concert Halls
- FOH Mixing: EQ it till it sounds good
- Smaart is just a tool. You are the analyzer.
- This is why I no longer recommend turning one sub off to fight power alley
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- Top 5 Common Mistakes When Using a DiGiCo Console
- I want to build a marketplace for corporate AV techs
- Everything I Feared about Digico Consoles Is Wrong
- Get More Work as a Live Sound Engineer by Doing What No One Else Will
- 5 Pro Drummers Explain How to Make a Drum Kit Quieter on Stage
- Review of Live Sound Basics
- Best Free and Paid Online Training Webinars, Courses, and Certifications for Live Sound Engineers
- This Is How to Find the Perfect Show Volume Without an SPL Meter
- My Results from 30 Days of Ear Training
- Get Booked Solid in Pro Audio
- How Anthony Went From Warehouse Tech to FOH Mixer For Cirque Du Soleil
- This Marketer Will Make You Look at Your Career Totally Differently
- How Much Do Live Sound Engineers Make?
- How To Become A Sound Engineer
- Where do clients come from?
- How to Be a Self-Starter in the Audio Industry
- 9 Tips for Easy In-Ear Monitor Setup
- Americans Like a Lot of Bass
- One Simple Tool to Find the Right Size Speaker for Any Space
- Inside Pro Audio Workshop: Seeing Sound
- Get 12 Weeks of Coaching in 5 Minutes
- Find a Live Sound Engineer Anywhere in the World
- Lively start to ‘Surviving to Thriving’ coaching course
- Where do I put the measurement microphone?
- Audio Calculators for Sound System Tuning
- How to Find Polarity Problems Ruining Your Sound System
- 3 Phase Alignment Hacks to Make Your Sound System Tuning Easier
- This Is Why You Are Over EQing
- Meet ZOID, the sound system tuning chatbot
- 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 4
- Create an Explosion of Reverb for Magical Song Transitions
- The Amazing Capacity and Limitation of the X32 with Drew Brashler
- Use a Ducker to Get Your Vocals (and your kick!) in the Pocket
- Give Me MORE Kick! This effect saved the day.
- How to Update Snapshots on the SD5 in the Middle of a Show
- Make Space for Bass in Your Ableton Live Mixes
- Help, I can’t hear the vocal! Waves Vocal Rider Plugin to the rescue.
- 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 3
- 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 2
- 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 1
- Mauricio Ramirez: Trust your ears, not just the audio analyzer
- How to Mix Intuitively Using Daily Ear Training Games
- How to Become a World Class Audio Engineer (if I had to start all over)
- Mixing Monitors from FOH: 17 lessons I learned from Grealy at Soulsound
- 3 Simple Ways to Phase Align Main+Sub with SATlive
- Live Training Webinar: Gigs on Demand
- Do you want a job as a touring FOH sound engineer? You need to hear this.
- Behind the Scenes of the Ringling Brothers Circus Sound System
- Top 5 Posts of 2016
- SATlive + Thomas Neumann: Sound system tuning with a single measurement microphone
- SIM3 is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to do with that data.
- Circus Touring with 21 Channels of Sim 3 Audio Analyzer
- My two favorite features of the Digico SD5 faders
- Emergency Digico SD5 Optocore Procedures
- Start offering podcast production services to your clients
- Position Yourself for Non-stop Touring as a Stage Manager and Lighting Technician
- Is IATSE worthwhile for sound engineers?
- Networking and Referral Strategy for Sound Engineers
- Are you a sound engineer or an artist?
- Content Marketing Strategy for Freelance Audio Engineers
- Build self-confidence for better productivity with this simple habit of relaxation
- Growth Hack 2016: 13-Day Career Building Challenge
- Silence: The secret ingredient to sound design in advertising
- What your parents never taught you about money
- Don’t sell services; sell solutions
- Mixing the most difficult musical on Broadway: Rock of Ages
- SynAudCon “How Sound Systems Work” online training REVIEW
- ATTENTION, MUSICIANS: You need to figure out where money is made.
- The easiest, cheapest, most valuable technique for long-term business success
- Turn Your iPhone into a Wireless Microphone
- For Live Sound Engineers: Surprisingly Simple Tips to Prevent Back Injury on the Job
- SPECIAL REPORT: Sound System Design for Small Venues with Bob McCarthy
- 11 Professional Networking Improvements You Can Make Today to Find Work in a New Niche
- One Critical Skill You Need to Get Stage Theatre Jobs: How Surrey University Is Training Audio Engineers
- The good, the bad, and the ugly of being a Tour Managing FOH Engineer
- How to be Unstoppable
- The Graveyard Shift: How Mike Rauchfleisch Built a Thriving Audio Business by Working All-night Parties That No One Else Wanted
- 360˚ Interactive Live Video Streaming with Zero Crew
- Support Sound Design Live on Patreon
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- Use Automation to Build Relationships with a Free CRM
- Decimate Obstacles like Top Touring FOH Engineers
- The Sound Engineer’s Path Webinar
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- What a CPA, Bookkeeper, & Business Manager Can Do for Your Business
- The Minimalist Guide to Budgeting (for Sound Engineers)
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- 3 Simple Ways That Busy Sound Engineers Can Protect Their Hearing
- Important Facts about Noise Induced Hearing Loss and How to Protect Yourself
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- How to Be a Remarkable Sound Engineer by Being Honest
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- Live Sound Survival: Big Sound Out Of Small Systems
- Dancehall Sound System and How To Mix Music You’ve Never Heard
- How To Become The WORST Live Sound Engineer Ever
- Learn To Become A Recording Engineer Online
- One Simple Reason I Chose To Be An Audio Engineer Major
- Balls Of Steel: 10 Surprising Tips For Live Audio Engineer Training
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- Keep Calm and…Too Late: the Concert from Hell
- Learn from the Sound Engineers for Tori Amos, Prodigy, and The White Stripes Online
- Be Your Own Attorney: The Smart Business Guide For Freelancers
- The Poor Man’s Galileo
- The Sound Engineer’s Pain-Free Guide To TurboTax
- Opening Up The Marketplace To Sound Engineers
- Save $500 On Your Taxes This Year
- 10 Critical Tax Questions Answered For Sound Engineers
- Honestly, Live Audio Is Not Based On Science
- Kickstart This!
- Mixing The Biggest Festivals In Europe with Dave Swallow
- The Five Most Popular Posts of 2013
- How To Find Speaker Coverage In One Step
- BOOK REVIEW: Sound Systems: Design And Optimization by Bob McCarthy
- Tuning vs. Toning A Sound System
- Sound System Design And Optimization with Bob McCarthy
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- Behind Moldover’s Kickstarter Success
- BOOK REVIEW: Mediterranean Diet Cookbook For Dummies
- Healthy Eating On Tour
- Food And Drink At Work For Sound Engineers
- The State Of Sound Engineering In Greece
- Make A Living As A Sound Engineer, Part Two: How To Get Played
- Make A Living As A Sound Engineer, Part One: How To Get Paid
- Sound Design Live Podcast Greatest Hits Volume 1
- The Best Search Engines For Sound Engineer Jobs
- How To Automate Your Job Search
- Interview Tips: the S.T.A.R. Technique
- Beyond FOH: Job Search Advice For Sound Engineers
- Best Tips For Building A Career In Pro Audio
- Career Advice For Freelance Designers
- The Sound Design Live eBook Is Live!
- There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Microphone
- Condenser Microphone Review: Edwina
- Single Miking Groups On Stage With Condenser Microphones
- Condenser Microphones For Live Sound
- Condenser vs. Dynamic Microphones For Live Sound
- Sound Design Live eBook – FREE Chapter
- Sound Design Live Is Back!
- Easy Invoicing For Sound Engineers
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- From Highschool Dropout To Head Of Audio
- Larry Crane & Tape Op Magazine
- Cables Are Dead
- From Free To Fee – How To Incorporate Internet Streaming Into Your Live Event
- Laptops Do Not Make Live Sound Simpler
- It’s A Golden Age For Internet Broadcast
- Climbing The Ladder To Broadway Sound Designer
- Designing Without A Script
- Super Fun Instrument Design
- Turning Technology Into Performance
- Sound Design From The Actor’s Perspective
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- FL Studio Rocks + Free Barbie Samples
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