Interview with Pat Brown from SynAudCon about the biggest mistakes in sound system design and optimization.
Why Touring Sound Engineers Are Getting Paid Less
Interview with Dave Swallow about why touring sound engineers are working more, but getting paid less, and what to do about it.
Dan Dugan and the Birth of the Automatic Microphone Mixer
Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play or Stitcher. Support Sound Design Live on Patreon. In this episode of Sound Design Live, I speak with the inventor of the automatic microphone mixer and CEO at Dan Dugan Sound Design, Dan Dugan. We discuss the origin of the automatic microphone mixer, implementation and best practices, and his favorite locations for soundscape recording. […]
Download the DiGiCo Session Setup Checklist
Are you sick of reading the users manual every time you need to set up an SD5? Me, too! Good news. Last night I got Aleš real drunk and got him to spill the beans about setting up a session from scratch. There was a lot of gibberish in there, but I was able to […]
How to Update Snapshots on the SD5 in the Middle of a Show
UPDATE: This article appears in The Ultimate Guide to Creative Mixing on the Digico SD5. In this video I describe how I used snapshots to automate my mix on the Digico SD5 as head of sound for the Out Of This Word tour for the Ringling Bros. Circus. In it, I walk you step-by-step through […]