"If someone questions your gain settings" just slap them. Lol . If I were working front of house at any respectable event, the proper use of electronic devices and meters would be employed over my "Ear O' Meters". With those being applied secondary. Yes, Hi-Fidelity is found in the numbers. Just don't forget its art meets science. And why music is so very Cool.

You are a gold mine that i just discovered🎉

Thanx broda

Thank you very much! your videos have been helping me a lot. im an learning event technician and I want to dive into the system engineering. your videos really helped me to get into the topic of PA tuning an measuring. Today was my first measurement: my new sound system in my living room. Great exercise!

I have been FOH engineer for few years and in few days I'm doing my first mini tour as a monitoring engineer. Even if i think i know all this stuff, this video came in just in time to prepare for this. Great video as always, thank you!

I have been FOH engineer for few years and in few days I'm doing my first mini tour as a monitoring engineer. Even if i think i know all this stuff, this video came in just in time to prepare for this. Great video as always, thank you!

Good sir I will like to be mentors by you sir if you don mind

Does this work to equalize in-ceiling speakers?

Boss pls for those of us far like for me i am in Ghana and i am know i cant be there. will there be a livestream for plp like me

If the production company maps the room, does the trim height and angles correctly, my shows 95dBA. If they just threw it I. The air and picked random angles it could be all over the place. Please do a video series about the reasons why you absolutely have to hang the PA correctly.

As tech director of a small venue, I am often the first person to great the band, let them know where the green room, merch location, run foh and monitors, and lights. he have gottent a few that run a digital spit with us to run their own in ears.

I am thinking to buy QC32 or SQ5 for church. Do you have any suggestion?

I do it how you describe everything sir. Can’t argue with the method at all . i like how you take time to explain everything.

Nice video, thank you . I do not understand why the delay compensation is 320ms ? It is like your mic is about 110 meters far from your speaker according with the speed of sound equation.

I am one of these guys that I use the unity gain as a starting point on faders and turning on the gain knob till reaching the -18 to -12 dBfs, in order to have the best resolution that I can. If the speaker system is overpowered then I am turning down the system, as if you have an overpowered system and you leave it like this then you overpower all the noises from the electronic circuits and all the interferences and also in case of any unpredictable feedback the situation is going very bad. In case of a need of more power to any output like the monitors outputs, there is a solution that the mixing station has (if you have a digital mixer that is supported from the mixing station) that is called Re-Gain . Is an amazing solution that you can adjust the gain from your channel without messing up with all the other sends that are related to this channel, as it lowers all the sends accordingly with the gain increasments.

At this point I mix in a variety of venues with capacities from 150 - 1200 people. Always as a freelancer but never as a touring engineer. I find it very funny how each venue will treat you differently. And it is completly decoupled from how much money is involved. I had to buy my own drinks (non alcoholic) in a big venue while it was the most normal move to just grab something elsewhere. Also I've seen venues with very strict hierarchies in their staff structure. Usually a sign for professionalism but not in a 300 cap. venue lol😂. Those people create problems for themselves I swear. To expand your list of people involved... There is always someone in charge of the processes in the house. The names vary... I commonly hear the word "night leader" Thats someone who connects all the dots nessecary for a smooth concert. This person will care for the artists needs, the bar personals needs, this security personals needs as well as the internal and external tech crew. Processmanagement basically. They reschedule plans if needed and coordinate everything. Most importantly ... they delegate stupid little tasks. I appreciate this person a lot as an engineer since i can just send people there if they ask me questions or demand things that I am not in charge of. Thats the benefit of a bigger venue.

Been there with Midas m32 and DL 32… pulling your hair out.. thinking it’s a routing issue, or a cable issue.. only to turn off the stage box and then back on.. and Walaaa!! Sound! I was thinking that this might happen if the unit sits idle with no signal going through it. But that’s just a guess on my part. Thanks for sharing 👊🏻

How can reduce back bass from my subwoofer And how can increase my subwoofer bass plz sir ans me

Yup, bullseye. I’m venue FoH and monitors (as necessary), but more and more bands/acts/artists want to mix their own IEMs with an app that connects to a console.

You should do a video together with German Artist and KZbinr Hainbach. But don't tell the viewers who is who, because you look very alike.

Unable to add my email to get the cheat sheet. Something wrong with the email form.pls help

Can someone please tell me if it is possible to do with the digico sd8 what he did with the m32 in this video? If possible, is it necessary to install a specific card?

Really like this 👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Im from México, People is oblivious to roles, often expecting FOH/MON, RF and even lights some times 😢

Im the Sound and Light guy in the venue, and yes I’ve been known to have conversations with myself. 😂

My god someone actually explaining this stuff properly. Thank you!

Hey Andrew Pls do a video on doing an actual LR send to the Matrix on a Pro2 series , it’s a bit different from the Midas console the Pro also gives you an option of the master LRC patching/Routing so how do I then send that to my Matrix I can do this on other console but the Pro2 haven’t had time to actually play around with the console pls show us 🙏🏾 I’ve seen all your other videos on the Pro 2

Also Security and Bouncers or Ordningsvakter / Väktare..

At the venue i do sound for I'm the FOH, monitor amd light guy plus, the one that meets, talks snd sometimes books the bands , but it's fun and i know taht being the one doing all those things i get to keep my stage nkce and tidy bith during and after the show, i have a huge issue with cables going all over the stage so i usually go in two hours ahead of time and wire up all the cables myself and after the show i take and put back everything back in their specific case until the next show...

Thank you.

Very informative, for me but the doof doof music in the background is very annoying. Didn’t watch it all because of that.

how is this different than setting up a aux bus for the same purpose??

Another thing to consider is what type of person will using the mic, if is a rock star that scream a lot or a man doing a lecture on a university class. And what type of voice is, if it a soft-spoken person (call angel voice) or a person with a loud voice. So there is not a "one for all" setting.

As an experienced live sound engineer working around amatuers... Learn how to ring out monitors. Anyone using wide q parametric eqs to address feedback generates TERRIBLE sound quality.

I did it backwards, started doing audio and found out its what i wanted to do, almost 2 years along now

I do it how you describe. Can’t argue with the method. If you want pristine sound, gotta keep it in the best range for resolution.

I would like to add something about this. Because a digital desk uses A/D conversion, the digital signal is in bits. So low signal results in less bit, so a lower resolution. This is not only for the direct signal of a mic, like the singers voice, but also for crosstalk of other acoustic sounds the singers mic is capturing. So you need to get the best of both worlds. Good gain for good signal resolution, but also keep in mind to have a good fader resolution.

I use the meters

The way i got into doing live sound is very different to say the least... I have some friends who have a venue i helped them for free as a photographer, one day the sound guy they had was like "hey man , can you give me a hand with this gear" then it turned into "hey, i need you to grab this and that" to "plug this in" then one day he stopped showing up all of a sudden and one day we had a band come in that said they'll do their own sound , they spent 20 minutes to figure out how to unmute the mixer , it was muted via DCA's i unmuted the mixer , plugged their stuff in....the show was a flop, they zero tickets sold so they just did the gig for....me? It soinded bad because they brought 100w amps into a tiny venue and cranked them up to eleven, they were foreign so there was a language barrier because they spoke zero English, so i just muted the guitar mics because they weren't of any gelp and even then it was way too loud amd that was mu first ever show..then this other band came in with a soujd guy that was recommended to them by some other guy who does sound , he messed everything up so the band asked me to save the day and i ended up doing both FOH and monitors for them for free just for the experience amd they left happy and from there i just started getting better and better and habe people tell me that next time they'll personally csll me when they have a show at thst venue

500hz is becoming Notorious, deserving of cuts everywhere

Becomes interesting when you have a DJ board. I would like to know your thoughts on using an external device like a DDJ-800 board and how you would set the gain on the channel(s) it is running into while still allowing the DJ to turn up the volume when applicable.

I thought 😂 that said send only fans dm

The universal technique is to turn it off and on 😄

Can I ask, what is the make/model of the storage drawers in your video (2:20)?

I always have my own mixer and my own stagebox with me. As well as my own cat cables (+ 1 backup). Additionally I have always a rack mixer as a backup solution with me. I do not rely on anybody else’s stuff.

or when you have such old Sennheiser receivers and even Sennheiser themselves don't have their own old software.. :D GLad we found an old iPad though.

You mentioned that we should set the PA speakers to max volume while controlling via a matrix.. will there be any risk of blowing the speakers, or somebody's ear drums if the mix engineer makes a mistake?

-18db is a good starting point for digital mixer. however some model like Allen & Heath Qu and SQ series, uses Analog meters in digital boards, so we still aim for 0 to -10db (depending on the dynamic range of instrument). Good to check with the manuals what meters is being used. *i presume this design is for easier transition for those from analog mixer and also safer to avoid clipping.

Don't forget about makeup gain on the compressor. In fact, needing more level out of the vocal really should be addressed at the fader anyway, at least versus the gain as the first line of attack. The gain should've already been set at sound check, and unless the meter tells you that you missed it by a mile trying to account for being sandbagged (and you weren't sandbagged)... then bringing the channel fader up should be the first line of attack to make the singer louder (rather than changing the input gain and changing everything in the channel strip (and signal chain)... as well as that changing the comp threshold). If bringing up the fader doesn't seem to be working as it should, then experience should then guide the operator to follow the signal chain and look for things like DCA and subgroup assignments and make sure something isn't wrong there... and of course... the compressor itself. If the compression is on the vocal bus, then driving the channel fader harder will still push it into more compression. But in either case it's also possible, you WANT that compression... And whether on the channel or bus, that's where the compressor makeup gain comes into play. And then that circles back to- Yes, with a pre-fader insert compressor on the channel, the fader itself essentially IS makeup gain when you start pushing the fader ever higher. Except, unlike with the channel gain, you're not driving the compressor harder and chasing your tail. But using the compressor makeup gain as intended can allow the channel fader to drop back down into a more normal 'looking' range.

Thanks for doing this!