A 3 Part Approach To Live Mixing For Beginners

Get better mixes, faster with my 3-step guide to perfect EQ:
www.offshoreaudio.no/eq
When you’re starting out, there’s a lot to think about and very little time to think about it. But you can get a great mix by just focusing on three things: Volume, EQ, and Effects.
With years of mixing experience, I’ll walk you through the quick but essential steps I always take when I’m short on time. These steps build on each other, so by starting with the basics, you’ll get the most impact for your effort.
There are many other elements in a mix, but these are the most important.

[@martincarlin1987]

Thanks for the video, it's very useful, I am just an enthusiastic amateur when it comes to sound, I play in cover bands and try and do the sound to the best of my ability but it's tough with very tight time scales and then also doing it from the 'stage' during the gig (although go out the front now and again during the gig). The things I tend to struggle with are feedback, mixing drums, getting the lead vocal above everything else and things like settings for compression and gate. I just got a CQ18T to replace an XR18, some amazing features on there that definitely help like feedback assistant and smart channels. Looking forward to more videos!

[@josuastangl7140]

I feel you, I play guitar in a cover band and for weddings, smaller festivals or parties I have to make the mix work mainly from stage and with just a very short sound check.

[@OffshoreAudio]

I'm glad it was useful! It's a tough gig mixing from the stage, that's for sure. I think I've got videos covering most of the things your struggling with so hopefully they help you too! For feeback the big thing is speaker placement, you can't beat physics! Oh and I've not tried the CQ yet, it looks great!

[@DanielReyes-tj3hs]

I have a drumset i want to set up with a sm57 under the snare and an audix d6 for the kick for an outdoor show. Do i plug these into an interface then directly into a speaker or do i need a mixer? Im new to everything!

[@charlotteice5704]

I would highly recommend plugging the mic into a mixer (a small analog one will suffice for your purposes) and wiring the output of the mixer to your speakers. It allows you to have some control.

[@luisfreddysperezruiz9094]

What about EQ effects?