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