What’s in my bag? The small venue survival kit list Welcome back. If you have read through parts 1 and 2 of this survival guide you will have noticed what a challenge these gigs can be, and that as a small venue sound engineer, you are much more than just the sound tech. You are
Welcome to part 2 of my small venue survival guide, or all the little things I wish someone had told me when I set out on this journey. The tips in this guide should hopefully help you own the small venue gig, rather than the small venue gig owning you. If you have followed the
Small venues are everywhere and unless you are doing arena tours there is a good chance you will spend quite a few hours in these. They come in all forms and shapes, and from relatively well kept to complete car crash establishments. One thing that will always be the same though: you will always be
When doing live shows, there are two things that can make setting up and patching the stage go smoothly and efficiently. They are an input list and stage plot.
There is such a huge disparity between digital surfaces and systems from one console to another- it can be overwhelming to know where to start on a board you haven’t used before.
A well-run soundcheck can make a world of difference in your show.
Gain Structure is you friend! This is the real solid base of everything we do in live sound.
Why do you need to understand signal flow?
Well for one, so you can properly connect all the various parts of your sound system.
The Midas XL3 has been Jon's trademark desk for many a year. He recently retired one of his collection...
Training your ears is a continuous practice - made super-easy and fun with SoundGym!
Jon Burton is just back from presenting some training in Serbia - How To Soundcheck
We all know that pushing your subwoofers together gives you more SPL and less power alley. But what if you want to pull them apart to make the line longer for more narrow coverage?
Jon's experience doing a three day workshop in Yerevan, Armenia, was a wonderful thing!
It doesn't matter how good a monitor engineer you are. If you have severe halitosis you will not be asked back. Things that I learned/re-learned from watching Mixing Monitors from FOH on Soulsound.
Freelancing can give you great freedom, but also has it's downsides. Jon Burton ponders the question.
Soulsound is teaming up with D.A.S. Audio to deliver a four-day seminar programme that will explore ‘Calibration & Design Techniques for Modern Sound Systems’. The programme, which is aimed at intermediate and experienced sound engineers, will be held at The Crypt, Christchurch Spitalfields, London.
Good sound engineers and technicians are skilful with both the tools that they use and the techniques that they employ while using them. A focus on new 'toys' at the expense of developing technique can lead to limited possibilities when engineering.
Remember the speaker coverage angle article we published a couple of weeks ago? Well, if you liked that, I've got another great free resource from Nathan Lively over at Sound Design Live. It's a live webinar training called How to Aim Any Speaker.
We are happy to bring you Part 2 of Nathan Lively's series on Speaker Coverage Angle.