I saw an ad for the full cast audio recording of the Harry Potter books, and almost all of the actors had a band on their head like this one. It appears to me to be a spot where you can put a secondary lavalier mic aside from the primary microphone. I just don't understand why. Is this in case the actor is overly energetic in their performance and moves too far away from the primary microphone? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DEwc-ULHyNM

I am starting to learn how to EQ vocals and well I have honestly had a hard time. Have seen videos and photos online with many different cheat sheets… are they really helpful? Any advice for a newbie would be greatly appreciated!!

I was driving to pick up new PA speakers, and while going through threw main street on a WEDNESDAY AT 8PM, windows down, and I heard death metal from 2 blocks away, so naturally, I had to see what was going on. I parked my car and the second I was at the doors, I heard the VOX1 mic was feeding back, and I could tell there was zero compression being applied. Whatever. So I talked to the bookie, and he said there's no one running it. It's only two inputs, VOX1 and a kick. When he said that I was like whatttt, and he said, feel free to take a look. This venue is soooo small by the way. Also, this was all in the middle of changing bands. 10 minutes till the next band (for those of you wondering, Allen and Heath, SQ-16 was being used, for all of you model geeks like myself). I had to eq and compress and gate. Most was done during the opening song. Vox 1 originally had GAIN AT 29 - 35db gate, zero compressor and a HIGH SHELF WITH AN UNMANNED CONSOLE!!!! I was baffled by why it was feeding back 🙄🙄.

THE FREAKING BOARD WAS 2 FEET AWAY FROM A MOSPIT ON AN OPEN WOBBLY RESTURANT TABLE RUNNING A 16CH SNAKE L O C A L L Y

WHAT. THE. HELL.

All I did was take the high end, make it into a low pass (couldn't find lpf in time) and put a high pass, then just rode his gain and compressor the entire night while fader at unity.

It was amazing three people went to the hospital. It was so crazy.

After 5 minutes into the set, the owner came up to me and just watched. I had no idea who he was, but he digged it, gave him my number and got the secondary sound engineer title on the spot.

That was the band's third show. Not only did they outsell the headliner, they sold out the venue and they got a new booking.

It was so electric. It was given the title "best set of the year" by someone in the audience.

The band grew 80 insta followers within 36 hours. From 430-510

Within the past 3 days, I've connected with a booking agency, drummer, band, venues and all because I wanted an ion powerglow. I also got my yamana mg16xu 2 weeks ago.

This is what really made me post this.

Take a look

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VOCALIST MESSAGE POST SET

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it deadass sounded good its probably the best we sounded

whenever i would like practice in my room id just pretend i was at a crazy ass show and everyone was getting fucked up

and then now i just had a show exactly like that.

MESSAGE FROM THE AUDIENCE POST SET

{ONE PERSON}

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i've been to a lot of [VENUE NAME] shows and i definitely think the sound quality is getting better.

i could hear the vocals over the instruments instead of just the instruments.

i think it sounded super good.

P. S.

They wanted to go to the venues I am working at and offering word of mouth for free.

What the actual hell just happened? Asking for a friend. Where could have I improved?

Hayley Williams (Paramore) recording “Stil Into You”

Audio, lights, visuals, cryo! 🤙

I'm a bassist and sound checks have always been kind of awkward for me. Since I've never gotten any feedback from the people mixing the sound, I want to ask you guys:
What do you want the sound check to look like?

Should I just play riffs from multiple songs or do you prefer a mix of single high/low notes to get the ranges right? Or do you generally not care, because the guy on drums that also does backup vocals is the bigger problem lol

Today has been the worst and most humiliating day of my career as a sound engineer.

I was hired to record a live show on multitrack. This should be the easiest job ever - literally plug a cable to the laptop, see it as a discoverable interface, set up a session in the DAW and press record. I’ve been told that desks often send this via Ethernet. Being a sound engineer a long time, I know that it’s usually USB B, not Ethernet. Regardless, I packed both just in case and all the necessary adapters. To make sure nothing goes wrong, I brought a backup of everything in case any gear is faulty. I arrive at the venue - super early just so I’m positive everything goes smoothly. Turns out it is indeed via Ethernet as the desk got a DANTE sound card. And so it begins. I download the Dante Virtual Sound Card and set it up. I get error message saying my adapter might not meet the data transmission standard. I open Logic and set up the session. All the inputs are there, but there’s no audio coming through. I’m being told I have to patch it. I figure out I need Dante controller for this - yet another app. I get DANTE and it can I see my dvs, but not the desk. I’m thinking it’s probably adapters’ fault, so I take the tube (I’m in London) to the nearest Curry’s, buy a gigabit version of the dongle (£39.99) and come back only to realise it did not solve anything else my issue. So I go to Google. Turns out, even though you connect directly via Ethernet cable, you still need to set up IP address, subnet and all that network nonsense. What followed was two hours of re-plugging, googling, consulting chat gpt, trying all kinds of different settings - all for nothing. At one point I had the desk pop up in the device list, but after about 15 seconds it greyed out and then disappeared completely. After that, no matter what I did, nothing could bring it back. I followed every single tutorial, fix suggestion etc to the T. It should all theoretically be working, but it refused to nonetheless. Eventually the show started and the sound guy asked me to leave as he needs to run the intros.

In my professional life as a sound engineer I encountered a lot of issues, all of them I managed to resolve no matter how stressful or unusual the issue was. This is the first occurrence when I hit an absolute brick wall. Despite my best efforts I let everyone down.

Can someone tell me what I possibly did wrong? What baffles my mind the most is how come the desk would show up only briefly and then refused to show at all?

TL;DR: I failed at connecting a DANTE sound card to my MacBook thus letting everyone down and not recording the show I was hired to record. I don’t know what I did wrong

They think they look dangerous, the owner would also like to see something less monstrous. Any PAs with a sleeker design like the tower PA that I could mount horizontally?

Hi All! I’m currently in my final year of uni and for my dissertation I’m studying gender in technical positions in audio. If any of you have a spare few minutes, I would really appreciate you completing this short anonymous survey! It’s only 13 questions and is mostly multiple choice so should be quick to complete. Thank you in advance if you choose to participate! It will help me out a lot.

Here is the link: https://forms.office.com/e/rY3Z60NkVx

(Apologies if you see this posted on a few similar subs, I’m trying to get as many people involved as possible)