I love soldering. I love making cables. I’ve even written excessively about it on this site (here, here and here). There is just something satisfying and rewarding about making your own mic cable, or a sub snake, or a patch bay. Perhaps it’s the joy of knowing you just made future set ups a little [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mixer’
Five Things I’d Say to Young Sound Engineers Pt. 4
All week I’ve been giving advice to young sound engineers. The first three posts have dealt with our knowledge, attitudes and what to do when we make mistakes. Today (finally!) we get to talk about gear–well, sort of.
#4: Be Prepared And Know Your Equipment
This is a big one for me. While it’s true that most [...]
Five Things I’d Say to Young Sound Engineers Pt. 1
Chris Huff at Behind the Mixer wrote an interesting post last week. He wrote about how musicians see sound techs. It’s a good, enlightening and sometimes hard read. I recommend it. One of the comments that really got me was this one:
Do you give suggestions to the sound tech?
- All the time and he always [...]
The Drum Condo–Does it Work?
Well, now that the site is back up and moving at something close to normal speed, we’ll get back to the drum condo series. First, in answer to the above question, the short answer is yes! To some extent, that’s the best I’ve got, as I’ve not yet had time to get any actual readings [...]
First Round of Troubleshooting
You finally made it. After working 15 hour days for a week, the system is installed. The band arrives and soundcheck begins. You’re excited because you installed an Aviom system, and setting up monitors should be a breeze (mainly because you don’t have to do it!). You call for the kick drum, dial up the [...]
RSS M-48; Now it’s Official
So maybe my previous post about the RSS V-Mixing system Personal Mixer was a bit premature. However, on Monday, it hit RSS’ website, and is now officially announced. And honestly, it looks better than I expected.
As I’ve written previously, the main limitation of the Aviom is 16 channels. The M-48 gets around this by making [...]
Buying a New Mixer Pt. 2
Picking up from where we left off yesterday in our discussion of deciding on the best mixer…
Feature Set
What types of new features are you looking for? More groups, VCAs, a bigger Matrix, better EQ, better metering, direct outputs, mute groups, and/or automation are all found on boards at various price points. These are all great [...]
What Do You Recommend?
Anthony Coppedge has a good post at his blog about the way people ask for equipment recommendations. I laughed when I read it because just the night before, I had used the exact same illustration. As I talked about in Asking for Help, I get several requests for advice on equipment a month (sometimes several a week). [...]
