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Lessons Learned: Adventures In Mixing A Jazz Festival

By Bruce Bartlett

Festivals always serve to teach new tricks to even the most experienced of sound professionals among us, as I learn every summer when setting up microphones and mixing sound for the annual Elkhart Jazz Festival.

Over a three-day weekend and joined by my colleagues Mark Darnell and Dave Engstrom, we handle all sound duties for 16 performances at the historic Elco Theater in downtown Elkhart, Indiana. Artists range from 1920s-style orchestras…   READ MORE

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