This is your textbook on how to get into touring. –Darryn De La Soul 🗣12 Authors 💪🏼272 Years of combined experience 🚨Free until Sep23 at midnight In this ebook you will discover: The many paths available to getting on tour. Best and worst parts of the job. How much touring engineers make. And you can download it for free until Sep23 at midnight! The most common career-related question I get is how to get on tour. There … [Read more...]
Why Touring Sound Engineers Are Getting Paid Less
Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play or Stitcher. Support Sound Design Live on Patreon. In this episode of Sound Design Live, I speak with touring FOH sound engineer, author, and fashion entrepreneur, Dave Swallow, during his stop in Minneapolis on tour with Erasure. We discuss using timecode to trigger scenes on a Venue Profile console, starting a clothing line, why touring sound engineers are working more, but getting paid less, and what to do about it. I ask: How … [Read more...]
How To Become A Sound Engineer
The truth is, anyone can become a sound engineer. Getting your foot in the door feels like the easy part because if you show up at the right time you could get a job immediately with no prior experience. The hard part is sticking with it and moving up. Being a sound engineer is hard; lots of people want to mix the biggest festivals, but only a small number make it to that high level. You could say that those people are naturally better engineers than the rest of us, and maybe they are, but … [Read more...]
Do you want a job as a touring FOH sound engineer? You need to hear this.
Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play or Stitcher. Support Sound Design Live on Patreon. In this episode of the Sound Design Live podcast, I talk to Dave Swallow, Merlijn van Veen, Bob McCarthy, Darryn de la Soul, and Michelle Pettinato about their best tips to find a touring FOH sound engineer job. With whom should I build relationships to get international touring gigs? Should I work for free to get my foot in the door? Who are the best people to cold call to find … [Read more...]
Growth Hack 2016: 13-Day Career Building Challenge
Are you ready to blast into 2016 with new energy and ideas? Start the year off right with this 13-day career building challenge. Commit to professional growth this year as a sound engineer and as an entrepreneur. You'll receive a short lesson and action step each day from such industry leaders as Bob McCarthy, Darryn de la Soul, Dave Swallow, Merlijn Van Veen, Moldover, Larry Crane, Josh Srago, Ken "Pooch" Van Druten, Björgvin Benediktsson, Harry Mack, and Steve Knots. … [Read more...]