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