Live Sound Tips:

If recording and mixing musicians in a studio is like cosmetic surgery then live-sound in bars and small clubs is like battlefield surgery. It’s rarely a perfect environment for hitting your checklist of best practices. But the more tools and strategies you have available in your grab-bag or tool kit then the greater the likelihood that you can be successful, even with comromised results.

Shot with my Canon flip-cam and a Sennheiser EW100-G2 lav mic on a cold, rainy day at Bottom of the Hill in SF, CA.

Please share with engineers, musicians and/or anyone that performs on a stage. Thank you for your support!

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Episode #4. Anything you can do to make performers feel welcome, comfortable, respected and valued is where you should prioritize your efforts. Whatever makes the performer’s job easier will make your own job and your results even better. But the magic doesn’t stop when sound-check is over so here’s a partial list of things to work on after the soundcheck and throughout the show/concert/event.

In this episode I discuss taking breaks, production schedules and set times, maintaining eye contact for hand signals, backline changeover and doing your line checks discretely, and being consistently supportive by applauding for performers.