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Black Lightning #4
A huge thank you to my all-time favorite live band, The BellRays, for granting permission to use the raging anthem of Black Lightning! Explore their vast musical catalog at the following places.
https://thebellraysrock.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BellRays/
@thebellrays on Instagram

Also a huge thank you to the uber-talented Rich Harris at Soul Effective Productions for putting together the ending credits bumper for Black Lightning. You can explore more of his commercial video work and various musical production endeavors at the following places.
http://www.souleffective.com
https://www.facebook.com/souleffective/
@SoulEffective on Instagram

Shirt of the Day: K.Flay
Check out her music! http://www.kflay.com/

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Shot with my Canon HF R500 flip-cam and a Sennheiser EW100-G2 lav mic on another cold, rainy day at Bottom of the Hill in SF, CA.

Black Lightning #3
A huge thank you to my all-time favorite live band, The BellRays, for granting permission to use the raging anthem of Black Lightning! Explore their vast musical catalog at the following places.
https://thebellraysrock.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BellRays/
@thebellrays on Instagram

Also a huge thank you to the uber-talented Rich Harris at Soul Effective Productions for putting together the ending credits bumper for Black Lightning. You can explore more of his commercial video work and various musical production endeavors at the following places.
http://www.souleffective.com
https://www.facebook.com/souleffective/
@SoulEffective on Instagram

Shirt of the Day: K.Flay
Check out her music! http://www.kflay.com/

Please subscribe, follow and share with live sound engineers, musicians and/or any performers you know. Thank you for your support!

You can also connect with me at:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FrontOfHouseEngineer/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LiveSoundJedi
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/live_sound_engineer

Shot with my Canon HF R500 flip-cam and a Sennheiser EW100-G2 lav mic on another cold, rainy day at Bottom of the Hill in SF, CA.

Black Lightning #2
A huge thank you to my all-time favorite live band, The BellRays, for granting permission to use the raging anthem of Black Lightning! Explore their vast musical catalog at the following places.
https://thebellraysrock.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BellRays/
@thebellrays on Instagram

Also a huge thank you to the uber-talented Rich Harris at Soul Effective Productions for putting together the ending credits bumper for Black Lightning. You can explore more of his commercial video work and various musical production endeavors at the following places.
http://www.souleffective.com
https://www.facebook.com/souleffective/
@SoulEffective on Instagram

Shirt of the Day: K.Flay
Check out her music! http://www.kflay.com/

Please subscribe, follow and share with live sound engineers, musicians and/or any performers you know. Thank you for your support!

You can also connect with me at:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FrontOfHouseEngineer/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LiveSoundJedi
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/live_sound_engineer

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

Black Lightning #1
Christopher Moore’s paper on artificial reverberation can be found here: http://www.sevenwoodsdesign.com/AN9.pdf

A huge thank you to my all-time favorite live band, The BellRays, for granting permission to use the raging anthem of Black Lightning! Explore their vast musical catalog at the following places.
https://thebellraysrock.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BellRays/
@thebellrays on Instagram

Also a huge thank you to the uber-talented Rich Harris at Soul Effective Productions for putting together the ending credits bumper for Black Lightning. You can explore more of his commercial video work and various musical production endeavors at the following places.
http://www.souleffective.com
https://www.facebook.com/souleffective/
@SoulEffective on Instagram

Shirt of the Day: K.Flay
Check out her music! http://www.kflay.com/

Please subscribe, follow and share with live sound engineers, musicians and/or any performers you know. Thank you for your support!

You can also connect with me at:
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Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/live_sound_engineer

Shot with my Canon HF R500 flip-cam and a Sennheiser EW100-G2 lav mic on another cold, rainy day at Bottom of the Hill in SF, CA.

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.

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T-shirt of the Day: The Ramones Museum (in Berlin, Germany)! https://www.ramonesmuseum.com/
Hoody of the Day: 930 Club (Washington, DC)! https://www.930.com/

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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.

Episode #2. If you’re one of those engineers that believes live-sound is a “thankless job” then you desperately need a fresh perspective plus a new approach, because nothing could be further from the truth. After 10+ years mixing at one of America’s most beloved and well respected live music venues I’m now sharing what I’ve learned about establishing rapport and strengthening relationships with performers. Because mixing skills and having a good ear can only take you so far if you neglect the personal side of the engineer/performer relationship. So that’s what this video is about; all those little details and small actions that instill confidence and convey your professionalism in a way that will turn musicians (and your peers) into your biggest, most vocal fans. This is a step by step guide of what to consider from the moment you arrive at the gig right up to the start of the sound-check.

A huge thank you to the awesome Bob Dossa for all of his hard work shooting and editing around all of my mistakes and awkward nervousness while in front of the camera. You can find him and much more of his work at http://www.rainydayrun.com

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T-shirt du jour: PROTECT.org http://www.protect.org/

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Important details for those of you that are willing to go the extra mile by regularly cleaning the grills of your vocal mic’s.

Huge thanks to Adena Marom for being on location with me at Bottom of the Hill to handle the production mixing and recording and to Rich Harris at Soul Effective Productions for editing and adding the music and comedic elements for this episode.

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If you can’t trust a grown man in a Batkid shirt, who can you trust? Seriously.

Episode #2. After ten years mixing at one of America’s most beloved and well respected live music venues I’m sharing my time-tested, no nonsense methods for fast, efficient, awesome sound-checks. When you’re mixing in small venues where you’ll be mixing both monitors and front-of-house this is good stuff to know to keep things moving quickly while maximizing results and making the performers very happy.

A huge thank you to the awesome Bob Dossa for all of his hard work shooting and editing around all of my mistakes and awkward nervousness while in front of the camera. You can find him and much more of his work at http://www.rainydayrun.com

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