Before & Between: Paying Attention Around The Edges Of The Show
Appropriate musical choices played at the right levels before the show can subtly prepare an audience for the live music that will follow.
July 20, 2022
Appropriate musical choices played at the right levels before the show can subtly prepare an audience for the live music that will follow.
The value of thinking about – and looking at – the mix in a graphical way. Anything that can help us visualize sonic concepts can enable us to better understand the nature of the mix and produce consistently high-quality results.
Considering the nature of the space in which we plan to mix and what happens when our carefully crafted sound is let loose in the wild.
The story of how I came to conquer a beast that stalks all live events, wrenching both the audience and the performers out of the moment.
With careful planning and a good awareness of all stages of the process, you should be able to meet the deadline and ensure the finished product sounds as good as possible.
A “low-tech” approach in recording basic show file values in such a way that they can be translated to any console, leaving more time for the all-important finessing of the mix.
Five problems that the author — a veteran live engineer — has encountered at gigs. as well as some suggestions for how they can be avoided.
With careful planning and a good awareness of all stages of the process, you should be able to meet the deadline and ensure the finished product sounds as good as possible.
Diving into the two concepts as they relate to live sound to define the differences.
In the real world, waves – much like careers – will inevitably encounter boundaries, be they walls, floors, ceilings or pandemics.
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