A Day In The Life Of An Audio Engineer: Daily Vlog 5 / HELLFEST

Show 5 of Daily Vlogs from tour. A Day in the Life of an Audio Engineer on tour working for While She Sleeps at HELLFEST Festival in France. Mixing FOH & Production Manager for a show on the main stage.
00:00 // INTRO
00:08 // COFFEE
00:21 // LOAD IN
01:29 // SET UP
02:16 // CHANGEOVER
04:34 // GO FOR SHOW
06:47 // PACK DOWN
07:21 // CATERING!
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[@eightymusic]

Your mix sounded way better than that from the TV stream. Thx for the insights!

[@dekhruel]

Best festival I've played ever!!!! Damn I wanna go back!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Hellfest is great!

[@knoxibus]

Was about 15 meters to your left during this show, great one. Thanks for showing us the insides. A bit cheap they only give you one meal token, when you see the money they make...

[@RattlinBonesClub]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Empirical_Drums]

Nice ! Set up with Orden Ogan in the background :D

[@IIKhmerxII]

Wow big random discovery ! Fun to see the backstage thanks

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@percy127]

This just happened to pop up on my youtube feed. I was there watching the show. Hellfest is an awesome venue and thanks for putting on a equally awesome show. It's very much appreciated. If you had looked directly down while watching Tom Morello, you would have seen my shiney bald hear in the PMR disabled section haha

[@klaasschippers3751]

Came here after getting hooked on Matt Horn content and wanting more. Your job looks unbelievable stressful, you can make and break a performance!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Nice! I love that guys content so it’s cool to see some crossover viewers 🤘

[@CRAVTBOARD]

Also sound guy here! It is very stressful, but also makes a lot of fun. And yeah, you can ruin it for everybody, when you don't know what you're doing. 😅

[@tonyspadeyobin_69]

Thank you for your content! And yes, your mix was top notch!♠

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks 🙏

[@gregmcveigh9966]

Great video! A few of my friends were working FOH at that festival.

[@rouchonarnaud2782]

It was cool to see you at work during pre-show, as I follow your chanel for a long time. It was a great show.

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks 🙏

[@aidenberry8957]

Great vid and good catch from the system tech. Cracking board mix!!! 👍🏻

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks 🙏

[@davidcourtois6374]

Thanks for sharing. Your sound was pretty awesome, one of the most clear I heard during the we. Great job, thk u very much

[@RattlinBonesClub]

🙏🙏🙏

[@xavkoston16]

Saw you a few days before in Strasbourg (I was just in front of the mixconsol barriers, the only guy with a backpack lol) , you did a really great job, managing the low end in that space is pretty hard, but you nailed it ;)

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks 🙏

[@two.milesaway]

you're a legend bro

[@RattlinBonesClub]

🙏

[@theophileledesert3966]

The sound was great good job!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thank you 😋

[@Quatschkopflolxd]

This Video concept is so goddamn cool!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks 🙏

[@mickey_sound]

I love your content bro! Regards from Polish sound engineer

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks 🙏

[@Polkametal666]

7:26 a little Fear Factory music to eat to. Great video keep kicking ass!!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Yeah it was nice to eat while being blasted by live music and not able to talk to the person next to me 🫠

[@timbofromkeno]

Great to see videos like this. Definitely helps give insight into what goes on behind the scenes. I'd be really curious to know your experience of working in France versus the UK or the US. Anything jump out as different about working in that country versus elsewhere in the world?

[@RattlinBonesClub]

France is usually pretty great to work in, they are pretty on it with their db limit but at 102 over 15 it’s very reasonable.

[@timbofromkeno]

@@RattlinBonesClub I appreciate the insight!

[@raythrash]

dig you channel 🤘

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks mate

[@heavyheadrecords]

what a great super mega show.. On my midas m32R, latency also occurs if something is inserted into the LR matrix and nothing is inserted into the sub matrix. good job from the systems technician.. greetings from Spain..

[@RattlinBonesClub]

🤘

[@ThePOVDJ]

Cool video man, subbed!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks a lot 🙏

[@ziwwww]

Great video! Thanks for sharing! Do you have backup equipment for a quick replacement if something dies? Has this happened during a concert? I imagine there're places that energy supply sucks.

[@RattlinBonesClub]

We have a backup MacBook for the playback setup and a backup quad cortex for the lead guitarist but apart from that we don’t really have anything else to back up. It would just be a case of coming up with a solution for the problem if anything happened 😬

[@wocio20]

Hey there! Fantastic content! I was at Graspop Festival and the sound was incredible! Could you explain the setup for a festival of this size (like Graspop or Hellfest where there are two stages)? I noticed there are two sets of speakers between the stages. How is the signal split between them? I assume your standard output is LR with subs on aux, but how are the mains configured? Are they fed as LR + LR or is it a different setup?

[@RattlinBonesClub]

I send them left right and sub. The festival then sends to the speaker stacks, left and right to both stages. So standing in the middle I actually hear right/left from the 2 stacks in the middle of the stages.

[@brisk_eventide8347]

One thing I've wanted to know: Are the backing tracks that WSS use (the electronic/synth stuff) in FLAC or WAV at all? Just really intrigued 😁 You did an amazing job! That burger looked lush 😋

[@RattlinBonesClub]

They are all wav’s I think running on an Abelton session

[@jstamets]

Was the coffee Costa? Interesting on the latency - I thought all A&H FPGA consoles were phase corrected across the outputs? Wondering what set that off. Thanks for posting!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Coffee was just a machine in catering, wasn’t that good tbh… 😭

[@TheDynamiteRO]

Wondering what did the sys tech used to check for the LRS phase allignment, did he show you the smaart ref loop betwen the channels and the pink noise?

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Yeah he showed me a loop from the pink noise, then he said it looked like latency from an insert and I knew exactly what I’d done 🫠

[@jtsotherone]

@@RattlinBonesClub must be great when those people are working with you not against you! sounded great, thanks for putting these up.

[@Shtave3]

Anyone know the song at 5:40? Im not a metal head at all so I woildnt have a clue about the sound design, but its cool to hear an acid line in a live performance. Thats dope as.

[@xavkoston16]

@@Shtave3 The song is "Sleeps Society" by While She Sleeps

[@dadjake]

1 meal token for a whole day is criminal

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Innit! Terrible for such a big festival

[@jeffthompson6162]

I always have an rnd 5045 with me these days. are you using the fusion on the LR bus?

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Yeah the 5045’s are so good!!! LR bus goes into the fusion and the. The maxxBCL 🫡

[@harshalpilare5543]

3:23 can you tell what the system tech checks to identify a delay on your L/R matrices and Subs

[@RattlinBonesClub]

I’m not sure, I was sending pink noise and he checked the phase and delay. I think it might have been smaart but not 100% sure tbh

[@TheJames29820]

le genre de video qui donne envie de bosser avec vous ...mais bon ....le milieu est tellement compliqué a integrer ....

[@austincameron5790]

At minute 1:27 theirs a green piece of equipment on the drum riser what is that? I’ve then many times before

[@RattlinBonesClub]

It’s a porter & davies butt kicker. An amp that makes the drummers seat vibrate when he hits the kick drum (or whichever inputs you send to it) This helps him feel the drums he’s hitting abit more

[@rot_studios]

I see the food is hit or miss not just for the musicians haha

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Giving bands and crew a good food experience really makes the festival worth it. Hellfest just need to do better 😅

[@rot_studios]

@@RattlinBonesClub Gotta have fuel for all that hard work every day! Did you ever bring your own food along?

[@mipiaceiltubo]

What happenet to TV stream audio? This sound really way better

[@RattlinBonesClub]

I’m not sure, I’ve not seen the stream, usually they just take a copy of my desk mix so I’m not sure what happened!

[@theforcer1762]

whats the band at 5:30?

[@Gotors]

While She Sleeps

[@RattlinBonesClub]

The band in mixing, while she sleeps

[@GrittyTones]

When you do shows like this that have two side-by-side stages with two dedicated systems for each, is either band running through both systems? Or is each band running through their own respective system

[@RattlinBonesClub]

The band runs through both systems at the same time. So actually standing in the middle at the FOH position I’m actually listening to Right / Left in the centre. As the speaks will go Left/right/left/right with 2 hangs in the centre.

[@GrittyTones]

@@RattlinBonesClub wow! Idk why but thats so cool to me, im a sound guy in jersey and im slowly working my way up. Im doing the usual bar or privavte event gig. Thanks so much for answering! I always wondered that