Live Sound Mixing Tips

I have just moved the files and databases for the site to a different server with a different hosting company. If you are reading this the move appears to have been a success. I checked the comments, article sections, and now the blog. The telltale that will disappear soon are the words ‘test marker’ at the top of the right column, so that I would know when I was viewing the site on the new server.

Part of the reason for the move is that I think this server is a bit faster. I will have a graphical representation of that available to me in a few days. I intend to move a few things around and do some long overdue updates to the site over the next few weeks. That should have been done while I was slow in the production business over the winter, but I didn’t get everything done that I had wanted to do.

If you see this post in the next couple of weeks please leave a comment about the user experience, particularly if you have visited recently and the site seems faster (or slower)!

Thanks,

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I had a computer glitch and lost access to the forum. There were several people waiting for their applications to be approved, but I could not log in. The forum was very angry with me and even refused to reset the admin password.

One of those waiting emailed me inquiring about the status of his application. This lit the needed fire and I went to the phpBB support forum. The answer to my problem was there waiting for me. The implementation of the repair was straight forward, and I regained access to my own board.

I checked out the pending applications and approved all that were not from known forum spammers. I do want to keep the board as spam free as possible. That is the reason that the board is set for manual approval.

If you have not yet registered for the forum, please visit the Live Sound Forum and open your account today. Please participate in the discussions there!

Thanks!!

There is one more new section of the site to shout about!! I have added a section for users to tell their musical stories – the My Musical Experience section of the site. I hope that you will consider posting something there.

I have several categories that can be used as hints about things that you might write. You can post pictures to the site and embed videos in the pages.

I started things off with an amazing thing that happened to me on the way to an event I was working. You really should check out that story. There is even a picture submitted as evidence. Who can match that story??

I have just opened the doors on the NEW Live Sound Forum, a new section of this site. I still have some work to do, but it is now available. Please visit the forum, register, and become part of the community.

I had been directing people to a forum on another site, but I decided that this site deserved its own forum. I have it mostly set up at the present time, so I decided to open the doors and invite people to join. A forum is a community and is only as strong as its members. Please consider becoming a part of our community!

Thanks!!

I have been using a virtual mixing system called The Software Audio Console for nearly a year and a half. There have been many updates to the SAC system in the time since I started using the software. The latest update was just released yesterday evening, 07/12/2010. There are some nice new features. Read all about it in my post on the Mixer in a Box blog.

This post does not have direct impact on live sound but I wanted to tell you about a blog that may be of interest to many of my visitors. I have a site that presents some of my live recordings. These recordings are all direct to CD from my mixing console without significant post production work.

In conjunction with the site I recently established the About Music blog. Primarily I am posting articles about all phases of the music industry. There are now articles on various instruments and how to get started in music. I hope that you will find something of interest there. Please visit The About Music Blog. There are links in the right column if you want to check out any of the recordings that I have to offer.

You can tell me what you think in a comment here or on the About Music blog. Thanks!

The post following this is about mixing sound outdoors. I wrote the post and it looked good so I submitted it to Ezine Articles. I have just received word that the article was accepted for publication and can be found at:  Live Sound Mixing Outdoors The article promotes this blog and the main Mixing Live Sound site. If you have a website perhaps you could reprint the article.