So once again I recorded #LiveSound and failed to take into account a really important factor--my #Zoom #H4NPro had no wind screen, and there was a slight breeze in places. This caused the auto-leveling to tweak a bit.

(I used to be very good about this; I just kept it in a Crown Royal bag and used that for the wind screen if I thought there might be a breeze.)

It's annoying, but this is part of why I record everything. I get better and learn something always. Every day a little better.

What I keep coming back to is the sound quality on her Canon DSLR with the built-in mic was better than what we got

from her phone (which was overloaded)

from my Zoom H4NPro (badly placed, too much conversation, and auto-leveling was all over the place) or

from the videographer, who had direct out from the sound board (which had no bass DI).

Recording #LiveSound is hard. Too many things can go wrong. (REALLY hard if you're trying to play bass, too.)

But possibly for the best in this case...

#Audio #plugins for #LiveSound we'd like to see:

DeYappifier

All it does is filter out barking chihuahas

So I had set the Zoom H4NPro down near the sound guy's booth, but at some point it got bumped or shifted and so the sound is fairly off-center--to get balanced levels I need to pan right 40%.

Is there a better way to balance this out? It doesn't sound bad to me, but I fully admit I don't know all (or even many) of the tricks.

(A LOT of my audio tasks are trying to compensate for very imperfect recording conditions.)

#Reaper #LiveSound

So this book is pretty amazing.

I have seen repeated references to this being "the Bible of sound" unsurpassed in the years since publication (1989) so I picked one up.

I've not dove too deep yet but I'm impressed by the clarity of explanation and diagrams.

#Sound Reinforcement Handbook (2nd edition) written for #Yamaha by Gary Davis & Ralph Jones.

#audio #studio #LiveSound #LiveMusic

Update: I haven't heard from Allen&Heath in a day, and that's either a sign they're working the problem and it's a doozy of a bug (I know how that goes, being an engineer who has had to help my own company's customer service team!) or my ticket fell out of their service system because I didn't respond fast enough.

We'll see.

#MusicProduction #LiveSound

Because I have a hobby of #MusicProduction and #LiveSound that I occasionally consider turning into a side gig, I saved up to buy a digital mixer a while ago, settling on an Allen & Heath SQ-5.

Well, I have a problem with the mixer that ruins one of my big use cases that I want to use it for, but apparently it's an extremely uncommon issue: I might be the only person in the world affected by it!

So I've reached out to A&H support. The punchline is in my reply...

Volunteered to help run sound at a local non-for-profit community theater and was puzzled why the sound coming out of the speakers sounded so awful.

After digging through everything, there were at least four layers of EQs in the signal path, all fighting each other. Ended up setting up a dead-simple signal path, with a crossover for the mains/sub, and a slight parametric eq to cut some of the mud out of the mids and boy does it sound amazingly better!

When it comes to audio, simpler is almost always the right call.

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

#audio #sound #livesound

What's the current favourite 4 channel audio output device for #qlab?

#livesound #av

nur zu empfehlen: die ProAudio -Marke Voice Acoustic bzw Tennax

ein echer 'hidden Champion' aus #Dörverden .

#VoiceAcoustic #Score5 #MadeInGermany #SuccessThroughQuality #ActiveSpeaker #AudioEngineer #AudioProfessional #AVInstall #AVIntegrator #AVSolutions #ChurchSoundSystem #ClubSound #ColumnSpeaker #ConcertSound #DJ #InstallSound #LineArray #LineArraySystem #LiveAudio #LiveSound #PASystem #ProAudio #ProSound #RentalSound #SoundEngineer #SoundReinforcement #SoundSystems #WeMakeEvents
#classD

Here's another one for #bandcamp Friday
All free #plunderphonics #noise #livesound #collage #th333f #theeef #paraferal :apartyblobcat: 🕳️ :ablobcatrave:
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https://theeef.bandcamp.com/music

Here's another one for #bandcamp Friday
All free #plunderphonics #noise #livesound #collage #th333f #theeef #paraferal :apartyblobcat: 🕳️ :ablobcatrave:
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https://theeef.bandcamp.com/music

On the off chance that anyone's listening,
I live in #Wales, #Repair, #Setup and #Make #Guitars, look after #LiveSound for #OxfordMusicAndFolk working mostly in #HollywellMusicRoom and #QuakerMeetingHouse in #Oxford.
When I'm not doing that I like to spend time in the #Mountains and on the #Coast near where I live #Walking and enjoying #Photography..... oh, and I despise #ToryScum and all they stand for.

I’ve been bumbling around here for a week or so and haven’t done an #introduction post yet.
I’m a recovering #gifted child from a dysfunctional home. #cPTSD and #aduldchild treatment underway.
Father of an #autistic kid.
Started #programming at 12, then #livesound engineering and later, theatrical #sounddesign.
Went back to computers as a #helpdesk tech.
Spent over a decade as a #stayathomedad and am now a school #secretary.
I have several #3dprinter s and #raspberrypi s.
#liberal
#ally

As per my lovely and amazing partner-in-crime @josiskpurvis, putting some hashtags into my feed for stuff I do, am, am interested in, etc. :)

Let's see: I'm a #parent, and an #adhd / #adhders while raising multiple sproggen with that and #autism. In addition to #infosec and #cryptography, I'm working on #wasm security on #linux and #bsd at the moment! Beyond that I'm a #singer who mostly performs #MusicalTheatre / #MusicalTheater and #opera on-stage and #TechTheatre / #TechTheater backstage — specifically #audio / #audioengineering / #audioengineer and #recording / #LiveSound. I'm sure there's more, but that should flood the pipes for now!

This is pretty cool, today I'm mixing a show with my laptop.

Aside from no faders its a smooth ride.

#LiveSound