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  1. This secret weapon will make a Profile sound like no other Profile you’ve heard before
  2. Create a sound system tuning checklist and map before your next show
  3. How to use a custom weighting curve in Smaart and why I don’t recommend it
  4. Phase Alignment Science Academy Handbook: Introduction
  5. What is the best sounding target EQ curve to use in Smaart on every show?
  6. 9 Smaart shortcuts that will make your life easier
  7. I made sure every sound engineer, tour manager, and production manager knew I wanted to tour
  8. How to place and aim your stage monitors for maximum rejection
  9. What do I need to know about my speakers?
  10. How to flatten the phase for easier main+sub alignment
  11. How to set the limiter threshold on a DBX PA2 so you don’t blow up your speakers
  12. How to practice reading phase traces when you don’t have a PA
  13. Smaart: Tracking peak frequency without the mouse cursor
  14. Bob McCarthy: Where do I place my delay towers?
  15. Analysis: How to Tune a PA System for Live Sound
  16. Moving from Discord to Mighty Networks
  17. How Robert Scovill Got Fired by John Cougar Mellancamp and Hired by Prince
  18. What do all of those squiggly lines mean? (a short intro to the graphs in Smaart)
  19. How To Find Work And Become A Freelance Sound Engineer
  20. Why Andrew Stone Only Mixes For Himself
  21. Stop Smaarting the Sound System
  22. 6 Most Popular Training Videos on Sound System Tuning
  23. How Jamie Anderson Saves Time in System Tuning with Smaart Check Points
  24. Why is wireless so hard?!
  25. Recovering from Burnout and Avoiding Overwhelm
  26. Get On Tour – Download FREE for 1 week
  27. Guerrilla Mixing
  28. Tomas Wolfe and the FOH/MON Facebook Group
  29. Quick Monitor Mixes – guerrilla style
  30. You might be guerrilla mixing, if…
  31. Why Touring Sound Engineers Are Getting Paid Less
  32. Mixing Monitors for Tears for Fears
  33. Essential Live Sound Training with Scott Adamson [REVIEW]
  34. Dan Dugan and the Birth of the Automatic Microphone Mixer
  35. Bobby Owsinski: Why Do Concerts Sound So Bad?
  36. How to build your own audio analyzer (like Smaart) for FREE
  37. Simple Ideas to Improve Acoustics in Recording Studios and Concert Halls
  38. FOH Mixing: EQ it till it sounds good
  39. Smaart is just a tool. You are the analyzer.
  40. This is why I no longer recommend turning one sub off to fight power alley
  41. Download the DiGiCo Session Setup Checklist
  42. Top 5 Common Mistakes When Using a DiGiCo Console
  43. I want to build a marketplace for corporate AV techs
  44. Everything I Feared about Digico Consoles Is Wrong
  45. Get More Work as a Live Sound Engineer by Doing What No One Else Will
  46. 5 Pro Drummers Explain How to Make a Drum Kit Quieter on Stage
  47. Review of Live Sound Basics
  48. Best Free and Paid Online Training Webinars, Courses, and Certifications for Live Sound Engineers
  49. This Is How to Find the Perfect Show Volume Without an SPL Meter
  50. My Results from 30 Days of Ear Training
  51. Get Booked Solid in Pro Audio
  52. How Anthony Went From Warehouse Tech to FOH Mixer For Cirque Du Soleil
  53. This Marketer Will Make You Look at Your Career Totally Differently
  54. How Much Do Live Sound Engineers Make?
  55. How To Become A Sound Engineer
  56. Where do clients come from?
  57. How to Be a Self-Starter in the Audio Industry
  58. 9 Tips for Easy In-Ear Monitor Setup
  59. Americans Like a Lot of Bass
  60. One Simple Tool to Find the Right Size Speaker for Any Space
  61. Inside Pro Audio Workshop: Seeing Sound
  62. Get 12 Weeks of Coaching in 5 Minutes
  63. Find a Live Sound Engineer Anywhere in the World
  64. Lively start to ‘Surviving to Thriving’ coaching course
  65. Where do I put the measurement microphone?
  66. Audio Calculators for Sound System Tuning
  67. How to Find Polarity Problems Ruining Your Sound System
  68. 3 Phase Alignment Hacks to Make Your Sound System Tuning Easier
  69. This Is Why You Are Over EQing
  70. Meet ZOID, the sound system tuning chatbot
  71. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 4
  72. Create an Explosion of Reverb for Magical Song Transitions
  73. The Amazing Capacity and Limitation of the X32 with Drew Brashler
  74. Use a Ducker to Get Your Vocals (and your kick!) in the Pocket
  75. Give Me MORE Kick! This effect saved the day.
  76. How to Update Snapshots on the SD5 in the Middle of a Show
  77. Make Space for Bass in Your Ableton Live Mixes
  78. Help, I can’t hear the vocal! Waves Vocal Rider Plugin to the rescue.
  79. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 3
  80. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 2
  81. 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 1
  82. Mauricio Ramirez: Trust your ears, not just the audio analyzer
  83. How to Mix Intuitively Using Daily Ear Training Games
  84. How to Become a World Class Audio Engineer (if I had to start all over)
  85. Mixing Monitors from FOH: 17 lessons I learned from Grealy at Soulsound
  86. 3 Simple Ways to Phase Align Main+Sub with SATlive
  87. Live Training Webinar: Gigs on Demand
  88. Do you want a job as a touring FOH sound engineer? You need to hear this.
  89. Behind the Scenes of the Ringling Brothers Circus Sound System
  90. Top 5 Posts of 2016
  91. SATlive + Thomas Neumann: Sound system tuning with a single measurement microphone
  92. SIM3 is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to do with that data.
  93. Circus Touring with 21 Channels of Sim 3 Audio Analyzer
  94. My two favorite features of the Digico SD5 faders
  95. Emergency Digico SD5 Optocore Procedures
  96. Start offering podcast production services to your clients
  97. Position Yourself for Non-stop Touring as a Stage Manager and Lighting Technician
  98. Is IATSE worthwhile for sound engineers?
  99. Networking and Referral Strategy for Sound Engineers
  100. Are you a sound engineer or an artist?
  101. Content Marketing Strategy for Freelance Audio Engineers
  102. Build self-confidence for better productivity with this simple habit of relaxation
  103. Growth Hack 2016: 13-Day Career Building Challenge
  104. Silence: The secret ingredient to sound design in advertising
  105. What your parents never taught you about money
  106. Don’t sell services; sell solutions
  107. Mixing the most difficult musical on Broadway: Rock of Ages
  108. SynAudCon “How Sound Systems Work” online training REVIEW
  109. ATTENTION, MUSICIANS: You need to figure out where money is made.
  110. The easiest, cheapest, most valuable technique for long-term business success
  111. Turn Your iPhone into a Wireless Microphone
  112. For Live Sound Engineers: Surprisingly Simple Tips to Prevent Back Injury on the Job
  113. SPECIAL REPORT: Sound System Design for Small Venues with Bob McCarthy
  114. 11 Professional Networking Improvements You Can Make Today to Find Work in a New Niche
  115. One Critical Skill You Need to Get Stage Theatre Jobs: How Surrey University Is Training Audio Engineers
  116. The good, the bad, and the ugly of being a Tour Managing FOH Engineer
  117. How to be Unstoppable
  118. The Graveyard Shift: How Mike Rauchfleisch Built a Thriving Audio Business by Working All-night Parties That No One Else Wanted
  119. 360˚ Interactive Live Video Streaming with Zero Crew
  120. Support Sound Design Live on Patreon
  121. Control Ableton Live from your Guitar with Wireless Bluetooth
  122. How Jim Digby and the Event Safety Alliance Can Save Your Ass
  123. Use Automation to Build Relationships with a Free CRM
  124. Decimate Obstacles like Top Touring FOH Engineers
  125. The Sound Engineer’s Path Webinar
  126. Do You Have A Clear Path To Pro Audio?
  127. Get Ready! Slow August Is Right Around The Corner
  128. What a CPA, Bookkeeper, & Business Manager Can Do for Your Business
  129. The Minimalist Guide to Budgeting (for Sound Engineers)
  130. Frequency Coordination and Antenna Placement for a Rock-Solid Wireless Microphone System
  131. 3 Simple Ways That Busy Sound Engineers Can Protect Their Hearing
  132. Important Facts about Noise Induced Hearing Loss and How to Protect Yourself
  133. Merlijn van Veen and Understandable Misunderstandings
  134. How to Be a Remarkable Sound Engineer by Being Honest
  135. Sound Girls: Karrie Keyes and Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato
  136. Multi Channel Wireless Home Theater Sound Systems
  137. Conference Room Sound Design
  138. What is Audio Visual Integration?
  139. Live Sound Survival: Big Sound Out Of Small Systems
  140. Dancehall Sound System and How To Mix Music You’ve Never Heard
  141. How To Become The WORST Live Sound Engineer Ever
  142. Learn To Become A Recording Engineer Online
  143. One Simple Reason I Chose To Be An Audio Engineer Major
  144. Balls Of Steel: 10 Surprising Tips For Live Audio Engineer Training
  145. Learn A Language And Get A Job 5 Times Faster
  146. Keep Calm and…Too Late: the Concert from Hell
  147. Learn from the Sound Engineers for Tori Amos, Prodigy, and The White Stripes Online
  148. Be Your Own Attorney: The Smart Business Guide For Freelancers
  149. The Poor Man’s Galileo
  150. The Sound Engineer’s Pain-Free Guide To TurboTax
  151. Opening Up The Marketplace To Sound Engineers
  152. Save $500 On Your Taxes This Year
  153. 10 Critical Tax Questions Answered For Sound Engineers
  154. Honestly, Live Audio Is Not Based On Science
  155. 6 Smart, Proven Methods To Control Feedback Onstage (Without EQ)
  156. Kickstart This!
  157. Mixing The Biggest Festivals In Europe with Dave Swallow
  158. The Five Most Popular Posts of 2013
  159. How To Find Speaker Coverage In One Step
  160. BOOK REVIEW: Sound Systems: Design And Optimization by Bob McCarthy
  161. How To Tune A Sound System In 15 Minutes
  162. Tuning vs. Toning A Sound System
  163. Sound System Design And Optimization with Bob McCarthy
  164. Stealing Athlete Nutrition Techniques
  165. Behind Moldover’s Kickstarter Success
  166. BOOK REVIEW: Mediterranean Diet Cookbook For Dummies
  167. Healthy Eating On Tour
  168. Food And Drink At Work For Sound Engineers
  169. The State Of Sound Engineering In Greece
  170. Make A Living As A Sound Engineer, Part Two: How To Get Played
  171. Make A Living As A Sound Engineer, Part One: How To Get Paid
  172. Sound Design Live Podcast Greatest Hits Volume 1
  173. The Best Search Engines For Sound Engineer Jobs
  174. How To Automate Your Job Search
  175. Interview Tips: the S.T.A.R. Technique
  176. Beyond FOH: Job Search Advice For Sound Engineers
  177. Best Tips For Building A Career In Pro Audio
  178. Career Advice For Freelance Designers
  179. The Sound Design Live eBook Is Live!
  180. There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Microphone
  181. Condenser Microphone Review: Edwina
  182. Single Miking Groups On Stage With Condenser Microphones
  183. Condenser Microphones For Live Sound
  184. Condenser vs. Dynamic Microphones For Live Sound
  185. Sound Design Live eBook – FREE Chapter
  186. Sound Design Live Is Back!
  187. Easy Invoicing For Sound Engineers
  188. Show Networks and Control Systems
  189. From Highschool Dropout To Head Of Audio
  190. Larry Crane & Tape Op Magazine
  191. Cables Are Dead
  192. From Free To Fee – How To Incorporate Internet Streaming Into Your Live Event
  193. Laptops Do Not Make Live Sound Simpler
  194. It’s A Golden Age For Internet Broadcast
  195. Climbing The Ladder To Broadway Sound Designer
  196. Designing Without A Script
  197. Super Fun Instrument Design
  198. Turning Technology Into Performance
  199. Sound Design From The Actor’s Perspective
  200. Build A $100,000 Mixing Board