Live Sound Mixing Tips

I watch the search terms that bring traffic to the site and pay attention to the comments both on the blog and on the main site. There have been questions regarding sound in small venues. One of the searchers today used 'drums too loud in small venue' as a search term. Drums are always loud, but can become a problem in confined spaces. In addition, Read The Post [...]

The best position for your amplification is as close to your speakers as possible. The world seems to be moving to powered cabinets even in the concert world. This is the ideal as far as amp positioning is concerned. In a multiple amp active system it is best to have an amp rack close to each speaker stack. There are losses in any wire. The longer Read The Post [...]

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 Read The Post [...]

Live Sound Mixing weather it be a small outdoor gig or a major concert has some advantages and disadvantages. The situation is different when you get to the great outdoors. While the reflections that you must deal with are less of a problem more of your sound may need to be reinforced to maintain a proper balance. Some of the problems of live sound Read The Post [...]

A microphone has a property called proximity effect. The closer that the mike is to the sound source the more low and low mid frequencies are reproduced. Proximity effect can be enhanced or reduced by the physical engineering of the microphone. Some are designed to minimize the proximity effect and some are designed to include more proximity effect. Read The Post [...]

I am putting up this blog to post mixing tips for live sound technicians. I will try to post a tip at least once a week, so check in often or, better yet, subscribe to the RSS feed for the blog and see new posts in your rss aggregator. I would like to see some comments on these posts. If you have something to add or if you think that the tip is not Read The Post [...]