A Day In The Life Of An Audio Engineer: Daily Vlog 6 / JERA ON AIR FESTIVAL

Show 6 of Daily Vlogs from tour. A Day in the Life of an Audio Engineer on tour working for While She Sleeps at Jera On Air Festival in the Netherlands. Mixing FOH & Production Manager for a show on the main stage.
00:00 // INTRO
00:42 // BREAKFAST
00:50 // CHECKING THE STAGE
02:15 // COFFEE
02:27 // SETTING UP MICS
03:46 // CATERING
04:00 // PRE-SHOW RAIN
04:19 // AN EVENTFUL CHANGEOVER
05:10 // SHOWTIME
07:49 // PACK DOWN
07:59 // ARCHITECHS
08:25 // BUS CALL
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[@MiseryWorldwide]

Hey, i really dig the videos, lots of great insight. Please keep them coming. Minor suggestion: When your subtitles are a bit longer its sometimes hard to read them fast enough, they could be visible for a bit longer e.g. at 1min16.

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks for the note, I’ll try and keep that in mind! I’m editing pretty quick so might be some errors and mistakes 😅

[@MiseryWorldwide]

@@RattlinBonesClub Yeah I mean you're on the road so its probably already hard to find free spots to make the videos - I appreciate your time and effort dont get me wrong :)

[@Richard1977]

​@RattlinBonesClub Was wanting to mention the same on the subtitles. Longer subtitles = pause over here.

[@rot_studios]

"take note hellfest" haha yeah there it is Another awesome vid

[@RattlinBonesClub]

💁‍♂️😅

[@filip_opalka]

Here just for the catering shots tbh

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Same, I’m basically making a vlog around eating catering

[@RandomGuyCDN]

F those bins on stage and big W for the festival giving the crew a proper amount of meals

[@lasplasuryoutube]

Hey , I'm French and I really like your work !! Sorry for Hellfest French food experience ahah

[@heavyheadrecords]

a new adventure with stress... How many times has my show been ruined by the rain...!! leaks on the stage and leaks on... FOH!! with completely soaked floors and giving electric shocks when touching any metal part.. As always, super entertaining video.. excellent work.. greetings from Spain..

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks! 🙏

[@frankgatsby1297]

Love the blogs, keep them coming! I do the same but I tour with Pop acts!

[@MalachiMusic1]

Loving these vlogs everyday. This is my dream job haha. Keep it up man!

[@wardocgr]

Really love your work Sam, keep it up!

[@clumhain]

great vids really enjoying them!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Awesome, thank you!

[@northenice]

Great vlog pal. Very interesting. And I knew the critic to Hellfest food was coming haha

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Haha Jera really take care of the bands and crew and it’s such a small festival compared to others. But it makes a massive difference to our day there.

[@Richard1977]

You were pretty near my hometown so you could have dropped by. Enough parking space in my street for that bus...

[@markkessels]

My home town festival!❤

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Great festival

[@captainkater6776]

I was looking into volunteering at Copenhell and the food situation was one of the reasons I noped out. That and not really having space for volunteers to park/camp

[@cshepard4723]

i was at the show and sleeps sounded amazing!!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Thanks 🙏 i really enjoyed this show!

[@ryleyfountain4214]

Hey man love the videos as newer sound guy just wanted some advice on how to get in with a band to run sound and also how to get experience on different consoles. Love the videos dude please keep them coming 👍👍👍

[@RattlinBonesClub]

Work at local venues, get to know some of the local bands that might one day want you to mix them in another venue. Be friendly with everyone! You never know which band might want to have you on a tour!

[@ryleyfountain4214]

@@RattlinBonesClub thanks so much really appreciate the advice

[@okaight7248]

Love this series! Quick question: You said you were making adjustments for the tent. Would you say that primarily you're doing moves on the master graphic EQ since you usually have a file with the instruments preset that tend to work most of the time? It's not like you're adjusting much compression or anything, correct?

[@RattlinBonesClub]

I’m adjusting the eq of the master bus to smooth out any harsh frequencies caused by the Pa/venue/walls etc

[@LaMarrBrewster]

I love your videos. I know the headphones let you hear what is coming out of the console before the PA, but what does the small speaker (Mackie?) do? I see so many FOH engineers with them, but I don’t know the purpose. Thanks!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

It’s so I can hear the talk mics on stage from the band and crew. We use this mics to communicate during the show, everyone on stage has the mics go into their iems but at FOH I have them all routed to a speaker so I can hear them talk and if there is any issues I need to be aware of during the show

[@LaMarrBrewster]

@@RattlinBonesClub Thank you! Keep up the great videos - they are a joy to watch

[@lowbass5]

i saw Phil using live professor , he is using it thorough dante? and if yes what dante interface does he is using on the laptop?, i also carry a yellow peli case for the drum mics ;) looking forward!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

I’m not sure how they have live professor set up tbh!

[@jakemcalpine7879]

What’re you using for crowd mics? Not sure why I’ve never thought of clamping them onto SR/SL vocal stands!

[@RattlinBonesClub]

I was using SE8's, the band have a little bit of them in their IEM's but mainly it's for recording so if the band wanted to use the recordings for anything we had some crowd noise.

[@teguhbasuki08]

What do you using trigger for kick drum ?

[@RattlinBonesClub]

The drummer has a trigger sample for his iems. I use the unit to control the gate opening for the mics at FOH. The sound you hear out front is a blend of 2 mics, but the trigger sound is just for the iems as it’s a super consistent click sound.

[@mattfender]

Yoooo Sam :D

[@RattlinBonesClub]

You know

[@LIXOSonidoyDiscos]

Do you use scenes to hit the snare or is a different trick on it? Tell me, please! Thnks

[@RattlinBonesClub]

The snare reverb return is set on a dca. The button I press moves that dca fader upto +10 to make it happen and then the down button puts it to -15 to still leave some verb in the mix but not in your face haha