Show day and Soundcheck: A Day in the Life of a Freelance Audio Tech
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2023
- Set up, sound check, and show. Integrating with a provided audio system as a freelance audio tech working for a touring rock band. How it all comes together with tips, tricks, and explanations along the way.
When working for a band as the audio mixer, you can find yourself mixing on many different rigs and stages. Pre-show preparation, soundcheck, mixing live, and getting it all ready to do it again on a different day.
For this show, I mixed on a Midas M32 (Midas M32R). No matter the musical genre, or venue... festival, club, ballroom, arena, church, etc... the overall concepts, the basics- gain structure and signal flow - are still the fundamental building blocks of a good mix. It's hard to get to the art of audio mixing if you bypass the science of it along the way.
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This video shows the behind the scenes bits that go into working directly with the band and mixing on another company's rig at a venue. Pre-show, soundcheck, and show. I also recently purchased a Midas M32R so this was a perfect gig to use for its first time out of the box. LMK if you're interested in seeing a first look/comparison about the differences in the M32R vs a regular M32 (or X32) (plus a bit of comparison with an XR18/MR18 too I suppose).
With stereo in, keys for example, do you run stereo to the mains? What about fill?
Fantastic video once again.
I like the sound. Though it's just a video, I can feel that the system is powerfull, balanced, and behave correct. And you know want to do.
Any tips on avoiding tons of bleed on an sm57 guitar mic?
I wonder why people who make this type of content never show balancing and panning process? New sound guys trying to understand how the process goes from A to Z and everyone shows only sound check of every individual instrument…. Btw, I’m not a sound guy, I’m musician who wants to understand how this all works to play live gig, how do you guys balancing and making whole thing sound good? Not an individual instrument
Even though I do this on the daily, I still love watching other engineer's methods. Cheers!
Let’s normalize calling this position “sound tech”.
Nice video! Thank you
Good video. Those are good gigs to get.
Loved this video
Nice and very nice to have a walk-on with monitors already sorted, as that can consume a lot of time and effort. In-ears also solve a lot of the stage noise and volume issues that can muddy up a mix badly. The band seemed very professional and ready to go, which is not always the case either. But I think this shows that it can all come together nicely and that modern digital mixers sound great and are versatile - I've had good gigs generally with bands, and mixed gigs with theater performances.
Excellent video. I'd like to see some content on the M32R. It would be interesting to see what usability improvements and features it has over the X32 compact, besides the preamps obviously.
awesome man!
Hi 👋🏼 Al! 😊
Great video, as always. Question - on the input list there are no mic models, just info on phantom power or no phantom power. Is that because the band travels with their own mic package and thus doesn't need to specify which mic is being used?
Hey Al! Another awesome video!
E-drums simplify our band set up so much.......I would nut punch myself if I ever had to mic all those drums etc in the future.Our set up and sound check , all told, is usually well under an hour. All digital, amp sims, IEM's, Behringer Power Plays, easy peasy....
Great structured way of working Alan. Very alike how I prefer it. Professional! 👌
The keyboards are stereo, did you run FOH in stereo? If so, did you pan anything else?