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Recent Posts:

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

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