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323 posts.
2025 (1)
2024 (4)
- New Directory for AV Technicians and Managers November 26, 2024
- Why Every Live Sound Engineer Should Embrace the Humble Checklist October 23, 2024
- How to Buy and Sell Used Gear June 22, 2024
- Don’t Align Your Subwoofer to a Room Reflection February 9, 2024
2023 (12)
- Adventures in Alignment 3: Rapid Response December 14, 2023
- Adventures in Alignment #2 November 25, 2023
- Adventures in Alignment #1 November 3, 2023
- 7 Point Sub Alignment Verification Checklist August 12, 2023
- July 13, 2023
- No Technical Element Should Distract You from the Story on Stage May 25, 2023
- IEM: The Recipe for Failure and How to Avoid It March 11, 2023
- Sound System Setup: Why Subwoofer Crossover Alignment is Critical February 27, 2023
- SubAligner Walk Through and Q&A January 20, 2023
- How do we know if we have good data? January 20, 2023
- Subwoofer alignment by ear?? January 20, 2023
- Why is the 125 Hz band so important? January 19, 2023
2022 (14)
- Sexual Harassment Is a Workplace Safety Issue December 9, 2022
- How to Choose a Digital Console & Deal With Cranky Artists November 10, 2022
- Stop Blindly Recommending Linkwitz-Riley Filters October 4, 2022
- Nobody Cares Until the Shit Hits the Fan September 7, 2022
- How to Set Subwoofer Delay (9 top brands agree) September 1, 2022
- For the Best Concert Sound, Keep the LF Reverb Time Low August 30, 2022
- Intro to Digital Wireless Intercom with Peter Erskine August 13, 2022
- What happens if you’re not familiar with a speaker? June 15, 2022
- Nothing in an audio analyzer tells you how good it sounds March 10, 2022
- that moment when you realize monkeys are trying to steal your gear February 23, 2022
- (remote) Home Theater Sound System Calibration with Smaart & Crosslite February 5, 2022
- How to fight power alley using end-fire arrays January 28, 2022
- January 20, 2022
- How do you calculate cardioid subwoofer spacing? (gradient array) January 13, 2022
2021 (23)
- When will this ‘immersive’ fad be over? December 18, 2021
- Subwoofer Alignment at The Redmoor Cincinnati November 3, 2021
- EQ Your Vocal Reverb Return October 28, 2021
- Single channel RTA targets to improve your mixes October 19, 2021
- Do subwoofers need time alignment? September 30, 2021
- d&b audiotechnik ArrayCalc vs SubAligner September 8, 2021
- Know Your Audio Analyzer Averages August 27, 2021
- Be Helpful From Anywhere in the World (pandemic or not) August 21, 2021
- You Need A Sound System Preflight Checklist July 29, 2021
- The Public Library of Loudspeaker Measurements July 8, 2021
- 3 Biggest Takeaways from Live Sound Summit 2021 June 23, 2021
- How to Settle Arguments and Get a Job Using Prediction Software June 23, 2021
- What do sub alignment sound waves look like? June 11, 2021
- FOH Engineers: How to sneakily check your system tech’s work June 8, 2021
- Building Virtual Mix Environments for Education May 29, 2021
- How to use all-pass filters without a fancy DSP May 19, 2021
- April 29, 2021
- SubAligner vs. L-Acoustics Preset Guide (K2 + SB28, Kiva + SB15m) April 22, 2021
- What we learned about the LV1 and loudness metering in DC April 17, 2021
- How to Make a Stage Plot That Will Save You Time and Misunderstanding March 19, 2021
- Best sound absorbing material: Rockwool, Audimute, or Furniture? February 20, 2021
- The Difficult Balance of Hustle and Self-care for Live Event Technicians February 17, 2021
- The 5%: Women in Pro Audio January 8, 2021
2020 (34)
- What (wo)men want: How IEM mixes differ by gender December 20, 2020
- I’m Here to Make You Sound as Good as Possible December 4, 2020
- Audio Analyzers: Pink Noise vs Sine Sweep December 2, 2020
- Gradient vs Delta Subwoofer Array November 12, 2020
- Right Now Is the Best Time to Build November 7, 2020
- Gain Before Feedback Is Independent of the Level of the Talker September 30, 2020
- Rog and Nathan’s 5-hour Show about End-fire vs Gradient Arrays September 19, 2020
- 14 online courses on live sound mixing, RF, and system tuning September 17, 2020
- The BEST subwoofer array for large concerts? August 28, 2020
- Can you mix better on speakers with flat magnitude and phase? August 18, 2020
- Does flipping a sub around also flip its polarity? August 13, 2020
- Do cardioid subwoofer arrays work underneath a stage? August 8, 2020
- 5 Things I Had to Learn When I Started Mixing IEMs August 6, 2020
- July 21, 2020
- Conference Room Sound Design July 6, 2020
- July 5, 2020
- Is your Dante network truly redundant? June 21, 2020
- 22 Things I Learned or Overheard At Live Sound Summit 2020 June 12, 2020
- May 15, 2020
- May 9, 2020
- How Dave Gunness Brought Single-Driver Cardioid Subs To Market May 4, 2020
- Are you still trying to align your subwoofers with an audio analyzer? April 27, 2020
- How Using Less EQ Can Stop Your Show from Sounding Horrible April 20, 2020
- April 9, 2020
- 1 Graph Setting You Need to Change in Smaart for Faster EQ Decisions April 5, 2020
- Can you match speakers through space and time? (🍎to🍎) April 1, 2020
- Is it better to face your subs at the wall? March 27, 2020
- Does every output in the signal chain need a high-pass filter? March 21, 2020
- March 6, 2020
- Do ground stacked subwoofers really give you 6dB for free? February 25, 2020
- February 12, 2020
- How to develop a habit of logical troubleshooting, piece-by-piece February 8, 2020
- January 19, 2020
- My most popular posts of 2019 January 13, 2020
2019 (46)
- How far apart can I space my subwoofers? December 6, 2019
- November 23, 2019
- Dave Rat’s End-Fire Adjustable Arc Subwoofer Array Explained November 20, 2019
- How to Estimate Delay and Level Offset Between Speakers in Your 3D Models November 8, 2019
- November 2, 2019
- October 17, 2019
- October 16, 2019
- Should audience depth influence crossover frequency between main and sub? October 4, 2019
- MYTH: FIR filters always add a lot of delay and are impractical for live sound October 2, 2019
- 6 Smart, Proven Methods To Control Feedback Onstage (Without EQ) September 27, 2019
- September 27, 2019
- This iPhone App Helps Musicians Mix Themselves from Stage September 13, 2019
- Spot Crossover Slopes in Smaart® and Avoid Falling Sharply September 6, 2019
- 120 Minutes of Sound System Tuning Q&A August 31, 2019
- August 29, 2019
- Do all-pass and FIR filters cause delay? August 20, 2019
- How To Tune A Sound System In 15 Minutes August 17, 2019
- August 16, 2019
- August 6, 2019
- July 26, 2019
- July 20, 2019
- If Poor Speaker Choice and Placement Were a Crime, We’d All Go to Jail July 19, 2019
- 3-Step Configuration Hack to Get up and Running Fast with Smaart® v8 Beta July 16, 2019
- INFOGRAPHIC: Create an IEM Link Budget to Avoid RF Dropout and Overload July 6, 2019
- June 26, 2019
- 3 Common Antenna Placement Mistakes and How to Fix Them [Infographic] June 24, 2019
- June 22, 2019
- How to Time Align Your Main to Your Front Fill Using Smaart® Live IR May 30, 2019
- May 25, 2019
- 6 things I’m looking forward to at Live Sound Summit 2019 May 24, 2019
- May 17, 2019
- How to maximize gain before feedback of a podium microphone using Smaart® May 15, 2019
- April 4, 2019
- Create a sound system tuning checklist and map before your next show April 4, 2019
- March 29, 2019
- Phase Alignment Science Academy Handbook: Introduction March 23, 2019
- What is the best sounding target EQ curve to use in Smaart® on every show? March 15, 2019
- 9 Smaart® shortcuts that will make your life easier March 1, 2019
- March 1, 2019
- How to place and aim your stage monitors for maximum rejection February 21, 2019
- What do I need to know about my speakers? February 13, 2019
- How to flatten the phase for easier main+sub alignment February 8, 2019
- How to practice reading phase traces when you don’t have a PA January 31, 2019
- Smaart®: Tracking peak frequency without the mouse cursor January 24, 2019
- Bob McCarthy: Where do I place my delay towers? January 21, 2019
- Analysis: How to Tune a PA System for Live Sound January 11, 2019
2018 (43)
- Moving from Discord to Mighty Networks December 30, 2018
- How Robert Scovill Got Fired by John Cougar Mellancamp and Hired by Prince December 29, 2018
- December 27, 2018
- How To Find Work And Become A Freelance Sound Engineer December 14, 2018
- Why Andrew Stone Only Mixes For Himself December 1, 2018
- Stop Smaarting the Sound System November 15, 2018
- 6 Most Popular Training Videos on Sound System Tuning November 14, 2018
- How Jamie Anderson Saves Time in System Tuning with Smaart® Check Points November 9, 2018
- Why is wireless so hard?! October 16, 2018
- Recovering from Burnout and Avoiding Overwhelm September 22, 2018
- Get On Tour – Download FREE for 1 week September 18, 2018
- Guerrilla Mixing September 9, 2018
- Tomas Wolfe and the FOH/MON Facebook Group September 7, 2018
- Quick Monitor Mixes – guerrilla style August 31, 2018
- You might be guerrilla mixing, if… August 24, 2018
- Why Touring Sound Engineers Are Getting Paid Less August 15, 2018
- Mixing Monitors for Tears for Fears July 27, 2018
- Essential Live Sound Training with Scott Adamson [REVIEW] July 20, 2018
- Dan Dugan and the Birth of the Automatic Microphone Mixer July 13, 2018
- Bobby Owsinski: Why Do Concerts Sound So Bad? June 2, 2018
- How to build your own audio analyzer (like Smaart®) for FREE May 26, 2018
- Simple Ideas to Improve Acoustics in Recording Studios and Concert Halls May 18, 2018
- FOH Mixing: EQ it till it sounds good May 4, 2018
- Smaart is just a tool. You are the analyzer. April 19, 2018
- This is why I no longer recommend turning one sub off to fight power alley April 17, 2018
- Download the DiGiCo Session Setup Checklist March 30, 2018
- Top 5 Common Mistakes When Using a DiGiCo Console March 27, 2018
- I want to build a marketplace for corporate AV techs March 24, 2018
- Everything I Feared about Digico Consoles Is Wrong March 23, 2018
- Get More Work as a Live Sound Engineer by Doing What No One Else Will March 20, 2018
- 5 Pro Drummers Explain How to Make a Drum Kit Quieter on Stage March 16, 2018
- Review of Live Sound Basics March 14, 2018
- March 10, 2018
- This Is How to Find the Perfect Show Volume Without an SPL Meter March 2, 2018
- My Results from 30 Days of Ear Training February 21, 2018
- Get Booked Solid in Pro Audio February 19, 2018
- This Marketer Will Make You Look at Your Career Totally Differently February 16, 2018
- How Much Do Live Sound Engineers Make? February 14, 2018
- How To Become A Sound Engineer February 14, 2018
- Where do clients come from? February 13, 2018
- How to Be a Self-Starter in the Audio Industry February 10, 2018
- 9 Tips for Easy In-Ear Monitor Setup February 2, 2018
- Americans Like a Lot of Bass January 18, 2018
2017 (31)
- One Simple Tool to Find the Right Size Speaker for Any Space December 27, 2017
- Inside Pro Audio Workshop: Seeing Sound December 15, 2017
- Get 12 Weeks of Coaching in 5 Minutes December 3, 2017
- Find a Live Sound Engineer Anywhere in the World December 3, 2017
- Lively start to ‘Surviving to Thriving’ coaching course December 3, 2017
- Where do I put the measurement microphone? December 3, 2017
- Audio Calculators for Sound System Tuning November 23, 2017
- How to Find Polarity Problems Ruining Your Sound System November 22, 2017
- 3 Phase Alignment Hacks to Make Your Sound System Tuning Easier November 12, 2017
- This Is Why You Are Over EQing November 7, 2017
- Meet ZOID, the sound system tuning chatbot October 31, 2017
- 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 4 October 24, 2017
- Create an Explosion of Reverb for Magical Song Transitions September 29, 2017
- The Amazing Capacity and Limitation of the X32 with Drew Brashler September 22, 2017
- Use a Ducker to Get Your Vocals (and your kick!) in the Pocket September 21, 2017
- Give Me MORE Kick! This effect saved the day. September 21, 2017
- How to Update Snapshots on the SD5 in the Middle of a Show September 18, 2017
- Make Space for Bass in Your Ableton Live Mixes September 14, 2017
- Help, I can’t hear the vocal! Waves Vocal Rider Plugin to the rescue. September 10, 2017
- 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 3 June 18, 2017
- 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 2 June 16, 2017
- 110 Questions about Sound System Tuning – Pt. 1 June 15, 2017
- Mauricio Ramirez: Trust your ears, not just the audio analyzer May 22, 2017
- How to Mix Intuitively Using Daily Ear Training Games May 15, 2017
- How to Become a World Class Audio Engineer (if I had to start all over) April 4, 2017
- Mixing Monitors from FOH: 17 lessons I learned from Grealy at Soulsound March 18, 2017
- 3 Simple Ways to Phase Align Main+Sub with SATlive March 1, 2017
- Live Training Webinar: Gigs on Demand February 17, 2017
- Do you want a job as a touring FOH sound engineer? You need to hear this. February 8, 2017
- Behind the Scenes of the Ringling Brothers Circus Sound System February 5, 2017
- Top 5 Posts of 2016 January 1, 2017
2016 (12)
- November 22, 2016
- SIM3 is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to do with that data. November 15, 2016
- Circus Touring with 21 Channels of Sim 3 Audio Analyzer November 8, 2016
- My two favorite features of the Digico SD5 faders September 12, 2016
- Emergency Digico SD5 Optocore Procedures July 19, 2016
- Start offering podcast production services to your clients April 15, 2016
- March 28, 2016
- Is IATSE worthwhile for sound engineers? March 15, 2016
- Networking and Referral Strategy for Sound Engineers February 29, 2016
- Are you a sound engineer or an artist? February 17, 2016
- January 8, 2016
- Growth Hack 2016: 13-Day Career Building Challenge January 1, 2016
2015 (26)
- Silence: The secret ingredient to sound design in advertising December 22, 2015
- What your parents never taught you about money December 18, 2015
- Don’t sell services; sell solutions November 24, 2015
- Mixing the most difficult musical on Broadway: Rock of Ages November 10, 2015
- SynAudCon “How Sound Systems Work” online training REVIEW November 3, 2015
- ATTENTION, MUSICIANS: You need to figure out where money is made. September 23, 2015
- The easiest, cheapest, most valuable technique for long-term business success September 19, 2015
- Turn Your iPhone into a Wireless Microphone September 10, 2015
- August 25, 2015
- SPECIAL REPORT: Sound System Design for Small Venues with Bob McCarthy August 10, 2015
- August 5, 2015
- July 29, 2015
- The good, the bad, and the ugly of being a Tour Managing FOH Engineer July 12, 2015
- How to be Unstoppable June 23, 2015
- June 7, 2015
- 360˚ Interactive Live Video Streaming with Zero Crew May 14, 2015
- Support Sound Design Live on Patreon April 16, 2015
- Control Ableton Live from your Guitar with Wireless Bluetooth April 15, 2015
- How Jim Digby and the Event Safety Alliance Can Save Your Ass April 13, 2015
- Use Automation to Build Relationships with a Free CRM March 11, 2015
- Decimate Obstacles like Top Touring FOH Engineers February 18, 2015
- The Sound Engineer’s Path Webinar February 13, 2015
- Do You Have A Clear Path To Pro Audio? February 6, 2015
- Get Ready! Slow August Is Right Around The Corner February 5, 2015
- What a CPA, Bookkeeper, & Business Manager Can Do for Your Business January 26, 2015
- The Minimalist Guide to Budgeting (for Sound Engineers) January 17, 2015
2014 (26)
- December 23, 2014
- 3 Simple Ways That Busy Sound Engineers Can Protect Their Hearing December 12, 2014
- Important Facts about Noise Induced Hearing Loss and How to Protect Yourself December 6, 2014
- Merlijn van Veen and Understandable Misunderstandings September 14, 2014
- How to Be a Remarkable Sound Engineer by Being Honest September 6, 2014
- Sound Girls: Karrie Keyes and Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato August 10, 2014
- Multi Channel Wireless Home Theater Sound Systems July 25, 2014
- What is Audio Visual Integration? June 14, 2014
- Live Sound Survival: Big Sound Out Of Small Systems May 18, 2014
- Dancehall Sound System and How To Mix Music You’ve Never Heard May 11, 2014
- How To Become The WORST Live Sound Engineer Ever May 4, 2014
- Learn To Become A Recording Engineer Online April 27, 2014
- One Simple Reason I Chose To Be An Audio Engineer Major April 20, 2014
- Balls Of Steel: 10 Surprising Tips For Live Audio Engineer Training April 13, 2014
- Learn A Language And Get A Job 5 Times Faster April 6, 2014
- Keep Calm and…Too Late: the Concert from Hell March 16, 2014
- March 9, 2014
- Be Your Own Attorney: The Smart Business Guide For Freelancers March 2, 2014
- The Poor Man’s Galileo February 26, 2014
- The Sound Engineer’s Pain-Free Guide To TurboTax February 23, 2014
- Opening Up The Marketplace To Sound Engineers February 20, 2014
- Save $500 On Your Taxes This Year February 16, 2014
- 10 Critical Tax Questions Answered For Sound Engineers February 9, 2014
- Honestly, Live Audio Is Not Based On Science February 2, 2014
- Kickstart This! January 8, 2014
- Mixing The Biggest Festivals In Europe with Dave Swallow January 5, 2014
2013 (29)
- The Five Most Popular Posts of 2013 December 29, 2013
- How To Find Speaker Coverage In One Step December 19, 2013
- BOOK REVIEW: Sound Systems: Design And Optimization by Bob McCarthy December 8, 2013
- Tuning vs. Toning A Sound System November 24, 2013
- Sound System Design And Optimization with Bob McCarthy November 17, 2013
- Stealing Athlete Nutrition Techniques November 14, 2013
- Behind Moldover’s Kickstarter Success November 7, 2013
- BOOK REVIEW: Mediterranean Diet Cookbook For Dummies November 3, 2013
- Healthy Eating On Tour October 27, 2013
- Food And Drink At Work For Sound Engineers October 20, 2013
- The State Of Sound Engineering In Greece October 6, 2013
- Make A Living As A Sound Engineer, Part Two: How To Get Played September 29, 2013
- Make A Living As A Sound Engineer, Part One: How To Get Paid September 27, 2013
- Sound Design Live Podcast Greatest Hits Volume 1 September 22, 2013
- The Best Search Engines For Sound Engineer Jobs September 1, 2013
- How To Automate Your Job Search August 25, 2013
- Interview Tips: the S.T.A.R. Technique August 18, 2013
- Beyond FOH: Job Search Advice For Sound Engineers August 11, 2013
- Best Tips For Building A Career In Pro Audio July 28, 2013
- Career Advice For Freelance Designers July 21, 2013
- The Sound Design Live eBook Is Live! July 14, 2013
- There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Microphone July 13, 2013
- Condenser Microphone Review: Edwina July 12, 2013
- Single Miking Groups On Stage With Condenser Microphones July 11, 2013
- Condenser Microphones For Live Sound July 10, 2013
- Condenser vs. Dynamic Microphones For Live Sound July 9, 2013
- Sound Design Live eBook – FREE Chapter July 8, 2013
- Sound Design Live Is Back! July 7, 2013
- Easy Invoicing For Sound Engineers February 14, 2013
2012 (10)
- Show Networks and Control Systems December 6, 2012
- From Highschool Dropout To Head Of Audio September 14, 2012
- Larry Crane & Tape Op Magazine August 29, 2012
- Cables Are Dead July 7, 2012
- June 9, 2012
- Laptops Do Not Make Live Sound Simpler May 22, 2012
- It’s A Golden Age For Internet Broadcast May 5, 2012
- Climbing The Ladder To Broadway Sound Designer April 15, 2012
- Designing Without A Script March 11, 2012
- Super Fun Instrument Design February 16, 2012
2011 (12)
- Turning Technology Into Performance November 18, 2011
- Sound Design From The Actor’s Perspective November 8, 2011
- Build A $100,000 Mixing Board June 12, 2011
- How To Use Plugins with an Analog Console And Wireless Control June 5, 2011
- Out Of Ideas? Just Add Reverb! May 29, 2011
- May 22, 2011
- Sound Design for the Pulitzer Prize Winning Play “Ruined” May 7, 2011
- FL Studio Rocks + Free Barbie Samples May 5, 2011
- How To Mic An 800 Seat Theatre With Floor Mics May 1, 2011
- Mixing For Emmylou Harris & Producing SXSW April 26, 2011
- Use Subtitles To Reinforce Localization In Your Surround Sound Installation March 26, 2011
- Perfect Club Sound – Dance Music Kills? – What is Serato? March 24, 2011