Backstage Class: Strange Beasts By Andy Coules • December 13, 2018 As we bask in the all-enveloping glory of the digital age, it’s come to my attention that some intrepid live sound engineers are very occasionally… Read More
Church Sound: When Our Tech World Is Turned Upside Down By Gary Zandstra • December 12, 2018 Most of us who have been involved in church production have had at least one mistake or failure during a service (I have many), where… Read More
[email protected] Announces “Main Stage: Studio” Sessions By PSW Staff • December 11, 2018 Once again, the AES will host an all-star series of events and presentations during the [email protected] Pro Sound Symposium: Live & Studio, including the… Read More
Truly Synergetic: Two Days Of Invaluable Learning With SynAudCon By Samantha Potter • December 11, 2018 For the unfamiliar, SynAudCon is the leading audio education program for industry professionals, offering an absolutely fantastic opportunity that teaches things you didn’t realize,… Read More
Mixing For The Boss: Dealing With Unsolicited (And Usually Unhelpful) Advice At FOH By Jim Yakabuski • December 7, 2018 I’ve had an amazing career in professional audio and have been fortunate to mix some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands ever, but I’ve… Read More
Winning Together: “The One Thing I Wish Live Mix Engineers Would Do Is…” By Karl Winkler • December 5, 2018 One recent day I got to thinking, “Wouldn’t it be great to come up with an idea for an article that would write itself?” It… Read More
In The Studio: Mastering Compressor Tips By Bobby Owsinski • December 5, 2018 With powerful mastering tools now available to everyone, it’s easy to do more harm than good when self-mastering. Although you’re always better off going to… Read More
Cleaning It Up: Methods For Controlling Low-Frequency Energy In The Mix By Michael Lawrence • December 4, 2018 Recently, a colleague and I were working on a show in a highly reverberant space. Although we only had a few vocal microphones on stage,… Read More
Advanced Small Console Techniques: Maximizing The Available Feature Set By Dave Dermont • November 29, 2018 What about those times when, for whatever reason, a big console is not available? That's the time for ingenuity and some special techniques Read More
In The Studio: EQ And Compression Techniques For Vocals, Acoustic Guitar By Cliff Goldmacher • November 28, 2018 As an engineer/producer, one of my biggest early challenges was getting my mixes to sound as polished and balanced as the mixes of songs on… Read More
Make It Stop! There’s No Excuse For Loud, Bad Sound By Karl Winkler • November 27, 2018 Preserving our hearing is critically important, but that’s not what motivated me to write this piece. Really, I just can’t stand bad sound! To a… Read More
Past & Present: Were The “Good Old Days” Really All That? By Keith Clark • November 26, 2018 Some of the crazier (and unknown and uncertain) stuff has been taken out of the equation... Read More
Church Sound: Strategies To Make It Work With Christmas Programs By Mike Sessler • November 26, 2018 Christmas: it’s the most wonderful time of the year! Unless of course you happen to be a church sound person. Statistics show Christmas and Easter… Read More
In Focus: Tips, Tricks & Punts By Nicholas Radina • November 20, 2018 Working as a monitor engineer can be challenging, and I’ve had a fair share of hard lessons over the years with equipment (or lack thereof),… Read More
How To Disappear Completely: My Year Of Working Without Corrective EQ By Chris Mitchell • November 20, 2018 A few years ago, I embarked on a quest to remove the last few bands of corrective parametric equalization from the input channels of my… Read More
