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