Dave has an ‘out of the box’ way of thinking, which makes him very creative. He also has deep understanding of acoustics and psycho acoustics. He is bringing the human factor into his thinking . Good stuff.
Exactly right, Dave's going for 'real' over 'correct', this offends people who put a ton of their energy into correctness because they are ultimately frustrated trying to achieve that. Even the best system is still going to make a mess of everything you put into it, and you can't cope with that kind of chaos by force. Much better to understand the limitations and find ways around them than try to bang against the wall, and Dave's one of the best at finding ways around the walls. Very much a rat indeed, and a damn clever one.
Wish more people were like you in the industry. 5 bucks a month is nothing compared to the wealth of knowledge and the back and forth you share. Appreciate your time, Dave!
Yeah, and that first redit was odd, because all of what I've seen from you is almost ALL sharing your knowledge you have for free. And a lot of the what you share is info that many people hoard and keep secret. Not to mention, you're not afraid to be creative and experimental....trying to push the craft forward.
Haters will be haters and Constructive criticism is always appreciated. At the end of the day, most of us love what you do and appreciate your sharing. Be well Dave.
Dave is a creative genius and his resume speaks all that needs to be said. Sweet guy for putting up with any criticism and continuing to share knowledge. Much love Dave!
Dave, you're a great tech and Dont allow a nay Sayer to stop you. Your knowledge is always appreciated and I frequently share your videos with my technical crew for my nightclub and concert operations. You are a wealth of information and deeply respected. Keep em coming Bob from Federal Way WA.
Opinions: everybody has one. On the side. I've listened to your videos. And they have taught me a whole lot. I've been doing sound since the late 80's. A fellow engineer once said. "The day that you don't learn something. Is a wasted day." And I continue in that stride.
Lolol man…way to handle the trolls with style and grace Dave. Side note: FINALLY got a virtual soundcheck set up at home and am playing around with the x32. Massive revelation on delaying one side of a stereo guitar channel by 0.3 ms…my goodness the sound got sooooo much warmer I couldn’t believe it.
You can go longer on the delay. With headphones sub Ms is audible and with speakers 5 to 10 feet apart low delay times below 5 Ms work. But for gigs with the speaker 20 feet or more apart, 10 to 30 Ms are times to give a listen to.
@@DaveRat excellent specifics. Learning is the spice of life. It had not occurred the delay times need to increase with distance. I've intuitively done this (thinking back - what sounds good?) makes sense distance from your ears plays a factor. Thanks professor
The old school guy comment gave me a solid chuckle. If there has been one person on this platform who is actively testing gear and learning and maybe more importantly, showing how you can do that too. It has been you. That's what got me hooked on this channel in the first place.
Forums and comments have become such shit shows. It's much to your credit that you keep spreading the techy love in the face of all that, Dave. How anyone can criticize someone offering his/her own time and energy in the form of free, educational videos is beyond me. You can disagree, but you don't have to be a dick about it. And whatever you choose to do, stay out of our troll-free zone. Those are five of the best bucks I spend each month. Big kudos to you all 'round, Mr. Levine.
So cool and thank you! Yeah, part of me wants to shout " what have you done to help people and share info?" To the couch coaches but that serves no benefit. Time is best spent redirecting negative to informative IMO
There's always those who who can't do what you do so they criticize you with 0 knowledge. I'm thankful for what you do for our industry and have always been kind to me and answered my questions Thank you Bro Appreciate your help
I'm consistently blown away by the lack of respect shown to Dave. The guy has done it all and is knowledge is nothing short of intimidating. He makes me feel like an ant with impostor syndrome and I've been gigging consistently for almost 20 years.
Dave, I wish more folks with your knowledge and expertise would be as open and willing to share (even if it comes with some unsubstantiated hate). We are all blessed to be able to consume the content you are putting out.
Absolutely agree!! Dave has given insight into a lot of common issues faced by engineers. If you don't like his methods, you're at least thinking about them and how you can do even better. For me, one of these pieces of gold was doing a stereo mix for subs. What a game changer!! We all need to keep thinking, experimenting and evolving like Dave! :)
I think what you’re doing for sound engineers out there like me is nothing short of awesome. Over the last year I’ve designed a sound system for my church and without your many videos about the fundamentals of sound I likely would have never known about or been able to take them into consideration for my Church’s system. I thank you very much Dave and God bless you and keep you.
Got to factor in the rat. The Rat factor . The advanced knowledge that swirls in your brain, it’s a lifetimes worth and growing. Addressing those commentaries steers a lot of love out there for the haters and blind beliefs . Thank you.
I am Dave's age and have been doing sound since I was 18 too (yes I remember crown DC300s, Phase Linear 400, and Macintosh mc240 amps). I love to continue to build my own speakers as a woodworker, a delightful pass time. I eat up all Dave's videos and have learned a great deal. Please keep sharing the knowledge and experience Dave! You are unselfish. I'm very grateful and love to learn more.
I think its very brave and fearless of you to do these Reddit videos and to do it with such good humour is admirable. I've been a professional FoH engineer since 1980 and have issues with confronting criticism, even if it is objective, critical and I can learn from it. As an official 'old guy' I have definitely learn from the answer Reddit posts.I last worked with you in the UK on some Juliette Lewis & The Lick shows. Keep up the posts and keep answering your critics in positive, non aggressive manner Dave. #Bigpowa
Super cool and thank you Dalton! It can be challenging to look past the personal attacks and focus on the reasons for the attacks. When undeserved, the attacks are almost always founded in fears. And I do my best to step back and make sure my responses are based communication rather than emotion
God bless you Dave🙌🏾. You earned my respect. I am 23 and I am on your trajectory, I own a rental business and I hope to get as big and bigger than you, I just learnt the something I would not have known regarding frame of mind and handling dicey issues, God bless you
I love these comments from people that don't actually mix live shows. I do all the time and try out all the things you talk about and they all make my shows better. could never thank you enough Dave for sharing your knowledge and experience, I been doing this 26 years and I learn something new in all your videos. rock on mate you are a legend whether people like it or not.
Dave, i have been following your blog and you tube channels since 2011. I attended one of your seminars in 2013. I have used and applied many of your helpful techniques to great success. I am amazed at how many critics of your channel have probably never fixed a mic, cable, mixer or stage speaker. They completely miss the point. We should never take anything for granted. Love what you do, please keep sharing the knowledge.
Hi Dave, I hope none of these messages affect you. I've been following you online for 16 years. I spend more time in the studio, but from time to time I mix live for some bands I worked with in the studio. Since the beginning of your blog and before many of the current social networks became popular, your interest in teaching the experiences lived in the first level of the world of professional audio was always noticed, no matter who they were or how big or small were the gigs of those who followed you and consulted. I always took away something useful from each of your blog entries at a time when obtaining information about our profession was much more difficult. It is not necessary for me to tell you, but as soon as you are interested and want to do it, keep doing that great work in parallel that you have been doing with teaching, with the generosity and desire that characterize you that many people from all over the world respect you and care what you have to say. Greetings from Argentina. (Pardon my english) PS: I think I only heard you mix the RHCP once and it sounded great, was in a festival and when the band walked in it's like the sound got bigger and the thousands of people next to me exploded with excitement.
You’re a national treasure Dave! Thank you for everything you do for our entire industry. Way to handle the haters with style and grace. Shit talk comes from a place of insecurity and self doubt. Stay groovy dude! 🤙🏽
I did some work on signal processing (beamforming, source direction determination and blind source separation). Audio is the most complex signal there is to work with. No other signal have 120dB amplitude and 20 to 20K range. I'm serious about sound and that's why I love your videos!
After years of working in this industry if I’ve learned anything it’s you can and will learn from everyone if you humble yourself just a little. I am not a rocket scientist but Dave Rat is!
Dave the fact that you share your knowledge is appreciated here. The fact that you have a members area seems to bother some because it would cost them something. Seems this has a side of jealousy not criticism. I have done FOH for lots of gigs inside and out. I have audience's leaving venue say great sound could have been a bit louder and the individual behind him said good sound just a bit too loud. You can never achieve 100% delighted but we try! Thanks for your info appreciated here! Free Island Audio Productions
You don’t really need to respond to tools, Dave- they enjoy negative gossip, because jealous kvetching is easier than hard work. To them, it’s anybody else’s fault that they are stuck where they are, and today that anybody is you. 🙄 Love your optimism and openness!
Thank you and hey, I made 5 videos sharing info based on the reddit comments, so for me it was kind of fun and hopefully interesting and helpful to others.
I love you Dave! Always had love your attitude. Love your work ethic. And I've always loved your shows any of the ones that you've done anyhow. Those who don't know speak the rest of us just get the job done. Carry on Old Man
My favorite video to date. I'll echo what others have said: you're contributions are and will continue to improve our unique industry. You are a great friend and scholar. Cheers!
Thank you Dave for all the excellent insight and wealth of Info! I’m a small time guy but a lot of the EQ Info you give has help bring me consistency and confidence! Forget the Reddit trolls. They can’t know venue limitations, electrical limitations or any of the engineering and thought that went Into a show. They only think they know how something should sound because they herd it that way in thier car or crappy Bose Bluetooth speaker. I had a guy making my life crazy once because it didn’t sound like Hillsongs album. Well first buddy we have 1/3 the musicians on stage..
I love mixing live sound and I appreciate all of Dave’s insights. I may not use all of them due to time or need, but Dave is filling my tool box with things I never even thought I needed
Dave, It’s amazing what you have accomplished and the knowledge you share is awesome. We can sense your passion and love for what you do. My only hope is that you don’t internalize or give value to any of these haters. Onward!!
I only discovered your videos a week or two ago (the super long cat5 mic test) and then stumbled upon some of the decorrelation stuff. Now I'm not in the industry, but I'm an EE that designs and manufactures circuit boards. I've done some mixing for friends just screwing around. When you talk about all your ways of doing things it just clicks. You're an excellent teacher. The people who have so much negative to say must not actually watch. You're inspiring me to work on my massive hifi setup again. 4 crown com-tech 400s running 4 pairs of alesis monitor one mk2. 2 amps left, 2 amps right. I've got an old DC-300 that works perfect but I haven't had time to build a good subwoofer yet.
Hahaha oh no, ya go me Dave! I guess I need to dial things back a bit and should more appropriately attribute doing things differently as just a different approach and not jump to thinking it's wrong. I am ready to admit fault here for my comments made, and frankly I don't have enough info on your work to really be making any assessments on you. My apologies. I let my past bad experiences with some other engineers get in the way. I'm going to take this opportunity to try and have my ego take a step back so I can be more open to people and their ideas. I may still disagree with some of your methods but hey, that's alright.
Josh, you are awesome and just made my day! I really appreciate and respect you r response here. And there are few things in life that are truly right or wrong from every possible perspective but there are things that have a higher probability of resulting in a desired outcome.
LOL!! I love the responses. I first met you in the early-90s when I part of Kevin Lyman/Ray Woodbury's Claremont crew (Janes, Lollapalooza, The Palace, Palladium). I was in awe then. I'm in awe now.
Yeah who would have knew we could listen to music and generate invisible energy for people to enjoy for a living? And how could that possibly make people grumpy?
Dave…you rock brother!! Hate always comes from below!! I love your videos and learning from you. Not once have I felt like you are negative person…love the videos!!
keep up the good work and please don´t stop producing videos on your take on sound. I tś so refreshing to see a sound engineer / technician that really want to explore new things to improve on his own skills and also sharing it to people like me that share the same passion about sound.
You are an awesome guy. I tinker constantly with large sound, "what if" mockups constantly, making mixed sound system brands work together. Right now I am experimenting with various material types for woofers to increase transient response and cone stiffness and types. My reference woofer is a yamaha ja 3882 (lightest cone fastest response woofer to date, unless you know of another one). I picked up a bunch of EAW LA400's and tested several 12 inch drivers in them and got interesting results from these small subs.
Love Ya Dave❤ As a sound tech who worked with/for Keith Olsen at Sound City Goodnight LA I’m on your side of things 100%. These negative comments toward you should be treated as entertainment as they sound idiotic in nature from a bunch of kids who don’t know much of anything except what they’ve ‘read’ in a magazine ❤❤
I've always been a fan of you Dave. Your ideas and teaching have helped me since almost the beginning of my sound career. The thing I love about this job is there's an infinitum way to make things sound good. Everyone does things differently and you can learn from every single engineer out there. Even that engineer that does things in a way you think is stupid. If it sounds good, then he knows something you don't. Thank you for this response to Reddit series and your work in general. While I don't know if I would ever use your techniques (will try soon), I will add them to the list of knowledge that is infinite in this career.
I find it fascinating that people are commenting that they don’t understand your ideas. As a monitor engineer I strive to understand the meaning behind the words that are said. I’ve tried the panning of the two kick mics and the Bass DI and bass mic. It was very effective at the show I did it at. You have to listen and think when people talk.
Thanks for calling out these keyboard warriors! I've been a fan for a while. You are definitely knowlegable, and back it up with repeatable experiments. That's what sets you apart from many of the others! Lots of haters out there, that don't have a clue about the science of sound. They probably couldn't spell Phase if their life depended on it! Keep on doing your thing!
Hey Dave , I completely enjoy your videos. Some I get some I don’t. So watch them over and over till I get them. Overall it’s a good experience. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Much respect Dave. I’ve always admired your drive to not only create & innovate but also share all knowledge you’ve learned throughout your career. I’ve learned a great deal from you in my 12 years of being an audio engineer. Also, I was today years old when I learned that Rat isn’t actually your last name…
You're so great that you find the time to answer this dumbiness...Virgilio told Dante:"Non ragionam di loro, ma guarda e passa" You're so great, your video are gold!!
"Ragionar di loro" is pretty important nowadays, though. Dumb people and haters aren't always easy to spot. They often masquerade themselves as "experts" and it's often easy for a newbie to fall for their nonsense. What Reddit has done for me is pointing me to Dave's videos, so I guess not all haters hit their target :D
Well Dave What-Ever-Your-Name-Is (LOL), they are all talking about YOU! That must make you proud! Regardless if their comments are good or bad, ok or bad spelling or grammar, they are talking about Dave Rat. I say... GREAT JOB!! Unlike them, you are someone!!
Love your work Dave, and your character is unparalleled!!! Been loving your videos for what feels like a decade now. Repeatedly given me the confidence to push things further than what was thought possible, and keeping a cool humble mind the entire time. You’re a huge inspiration! Hope to knock elbows with ya some day! I also had the pleasure of fooling the measurement mic at Red Rocks by slightly delaying the right sub stack enough to push the null right over mic at FOH. It’s fun to play dirty sometimes 😈😹
OMFG! This is going to be shared with my students as we cover 'audio disinformation' in the courses I teach. Last time I mixed outdoors for a few thousand people, I was capped at 85dBA at 20 metres from FOH. At the mix position, I was measuring around 95. Nobody would be there if it were even averaging 120dB!! We have sound caps in bigger venues in Toronto, Canada of less than 100dBA. 130dB? Maybe, if you were to glue your head to a speaker. My two cents worth. Cheers!
Dave, Your info and knowledge is too valuable and genuine. do not let scum bags ruin your hapiness. Keep doing what you're doing. wish you all the joy, happiness and health in the world, , god bless...
Wonderful and thank you. If people really know and understand, they don't tend to feel anger when someone has a different opinion, perspective or misunderstanding. When you see anger and fury you also find doubt and confusion as curiosity, learning and teaching are not well served by emotional outbreaks.
Why do you read these? They're just gonna bring you down. You know, you know what you're doing. The ones of us watching that know, know you know what you're doing. So just keep on keeping on man! I love your videos because you are such an outside the box thinker. I always learn something new or at least learn a new way to think about something. You're the only (sound) person on RUclips that doesn't just regurgitate something someone else said.
Thank you thank you! And these don't bring me down. They challenge me to be more clear, a better communicator and tests the integrity of the concepts I share. All good and appreciate you!!
On any topic, Reddit is suited to a certain personality type. The snob. The misfit. The know it all. It's a gathering of misfits, but not in the cool "Dirty Dozen" way.
I am remiss to catgorize an entire latform based on the actions of a few. And perhaps the venting of opinions may seem frivolous but also look at the bigger picture of 10s of thousands of people reading their comments and the responses, may be a net positive.
@@DaveRat Why is there road rage? People get mad on the road who would never have bad manners otherwise. So maybe some generalizations are kind of true. I posted a few things from record engineering college in 1980 that did not go over well on reddit. Why bother? Everyone just goes with what their telephone says is true.
@@stehfreejesseah7893 I have fun on RUclips. I logged out of reddit. I tried it. I posted the truth about the "UFOs". They're part of our missile defense system. No alien visitation. That's a psyop. And that one was actually pretty well received, ironically;).
You must be getting good if that many become jealous! Whatever all of this, what I get from Maestro Dave is he’s sharing knowledge positively and seems to care about the outcome in music. The music. Music is not symmetrical. Paintings are not all square. Mixers are musicians, or should become.
I couldn’t agree more that this industry needs to be a fun one and is not medical science. However, there are many in this industry that don’t see it that way and probably wouldn’t hold down a job anywhere else for that matter.
Dave mixed RHCP at Arco Arena a famously awful sounding venue, went when I was in high school expecting bad sound. Not even much of a RHCP fan, went for the Mars Volta and Hella at the time, and the show sounded phenomenal. It blew me away and I enjoyed RHCP more than I thought I would. Come to find that memorable show was mixed by Dave only recently. Would love to hear the critics mix in Arco Arena (RIP).
Their current sound engineer is okay, but I was very far from being blown away by the sound, at least last summer when they performed at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, WA, with Thundercat and The Strokes. The audio rig itself seemed good. It consisted of 20-some per hang d&b Audiotechnik GSL for main and side fills with 3 sets of 12-ish KSL delay hangs and some sl-sub subwoofers, a line of 6 or so on the ground and 10 per side flown. Front fills looked like d&b V7p. This equipment came from eighth day sound, based on the badges stuck to the speakers. On stage, monitors were d&b V and M series for Thundercat and The strokes, but RHCP switched to Clair Global Cohesion series for some reason. The FOH system was quite good in the high frequencies, and very clear, but bass was nonexistent, making it sound harsh/boring in some cases. I almost never have this issue with d&b systems, in fact, those are some of my favorite live sound subs! Also, since we had floor seating, there was the problem of sound echoing off the stands in behind us, but that’s basically unavoidable in a baseball stadium.
The 130db reading may have come from a phone app if it was in the right era for that to have been a thing. Many SPL phone apps must be calibrated before they give a somewhat correct reading. I have been loving all of your videos you have been posting over the last few years because it feels like the aricles I used to read in live sound magazine 20 years ago.
Hey Soundy Mc Soundface, Heary McEarface here... even when you feed the trolls on reddit I'm learning stuff! If you go down that rabbit(reddit) hole I wish you the very best of journeys back with the a good Alice. Please keep your Mad Hatters hat on we need you here on the other side!!
All good, after so many years dealing with high profile artists, management, audiences and being in the public eye, I am a professional fireball handler!
I've enjoyed following your career and occasionally rubbing elbows over the years. I was house head at Santa Monica Civic years ago. You gave me some iffy mic stands which served me well. If you are at Brookside this week, I hope we have a chance to talk.
Good stuff I've done a bunch of shows with them over the years and I'm still friends with Nikki Beat. Oh and bought a surfboard from the new drummer not long ago
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Dave has an ‘out of the box’ way of thinking, which makes him very creative. He also has deep understanding of acoustics and psycho acoustics. He is bringing the human factor into his thinking . Good stuff.
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Exactly right, Dave's going for 'real' over 'correct', this offends people who put a ton of their energy into correctness because they are ultimately frustrated trying to achieve that. Even the best system is still going to make a mess of everything you put into it, and you can't cope with that kind of chaos by force. Much better to understand the limitations and find ways around them than try to bang against the wall, and Dave's one of the best at finding ways around the walls. Very much a rat indeed, and a damn clever one.
Yes! The rats in the walls we hear and rarely see!
Wish more people were like you in the industry. 5 bucks a month is nothing compared to the wealth of knowledge and the back and forth you share. Appreciate your time, Dave!
Thank you Niel! 👍👍👍
I appreciate how you’ve grown your business. You didn’t just walk into being a mixer. You paid your dues and started where everyone else did.
Thank you and yes, it's been a long bumpy path and would not trade it away for anything
Yeah, and that first redit was odd, because all of what I've seen from you is almost ALL sharing your knowledge you have for free. And a lot of the what you share is info that many people hoard and keep secret. Not to mention, you're not afraid to be creative and experimental....trying to push the craft forward.
The drum overhead comment! 😂😂😂 I love this so much
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Haters will be haters and Constructive criticism is always appreciated. At the end of the day, most of us love what you do and appreciate your sharing. Be well Dave.
Thank you Kevin!!
Dave is a creative genius and his resume speaks all that needs to be said. Sweet guy for putting up with any criticism and continuing to share knowledge. Much love Dave!
Thank you! Honored!
Your wisdom is always appreciated. I’ve learned so much from your videos. Keep’em coming
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Dave, you're a great tech and Dont allow a nay Sayer to stop you. Your knowledge is always appreciated and I frequently share your videos with my technical crew for my nightclub and concert operations. You are a wealth of information and deeply respected. Keep em coming Bob from Federal Way WA.
Thank you Bob!!
You are the greatest grandson of the inventor Robert C Webber 😊
people talk too much, criticize, and offer nothing new.
your videos are pearls that sometimes fall to the pigs
Thank you Laurent! 🤙👍🤙
Keep the responses coming, Dave! They're great.
Awesome and thank you Markus!!
“Dream adventure” encapsulates everything Dave. Thank you for everything is not enough but a start.
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His grandpa is a world famous brilliant inventor: Robert C Webber invented the Heat Pump patent.
Dave (ratsound) Levine inherited his Genius Invention Gene because his grandpa is world famous brilliant inventor Robert C Webber.
Genius Genes alive and performing.😮
Opinions: everybody has one.
On the side. I've listened to your videos. And they have taught me a whole lot. I've been doing sound since the late 80's. A fellow engineer once said. "The day that you don't learn something. Is a wasted day." And I continue in that stride.
Super cool and thank you!
Lolol man…way to handle the trolls with style and grace Dave.
Side note: FINALLY got a virtual soundcheck set up at home and am playing around with the x32. Massive revelation on delaying one side of a stereo guitar channel by 0.3 ms…my goodness the sound got sooooo much warmer I couldn’t believe it.
You can go longer on the delay. With headphones sub Ms is audible and with speakers 5 to 10 feet apart low delay times below 5 Ms work. But for gigs with the speaker 20 feet or more apart, 10 to 30 Ms are times to give a listen to.
@@DaveRat awesome, thanks for the knowledge, will definitely experiment!
Awesome and keep me updated
@@DaveRat excellent specifics. Learning is the spice of life.
It had not occurred the delay times need to increase with distance. I've intuitively done this (thinking back - what sounds good?) makes sense distance from your ears plays a factor. Thanks professor
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The old school guy comment gave me a solid chuckle.
If there has been one person on this platform who is actively testing gear and learning and maybe more importantly, showing how you can do that too. It has been you.
That's what got me hooked on this channel in the first place.
Awesome and thank you!
Forums and comments have become such shit shows. It's much to your credit that you keep spreading the techy love in the face of all that, Dave. How anyone can criticize someone offering his/her own time and energy in the form of free, educational videos is beyond me. You can disagree, but you don't have to be a dick about it. And whatever you choose to do, stay out of our troll-free zone. Those are five of the best bucks I spend each month.
Big kudos to you all 'round, Mr. Levine.
So cool and thank you! Yeah, part of me wants to shout " what have you done to help people and share info?" To the couch coaches but that serves no benefit. Time is best spent redirecting negative to informative IMO
Learning where Rat sound name comes from was so cool. Thank you for sharing that!
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There's always those who who can't do what you do so they criticize you with 0 knowledge.
I'm thankful for what you do for our industry and have always been kind to me and answered my questions
Thank you Bro Appreciate your help
Thank you Stevean77!
I'm consistently blown away by the lack of respect shown to Dave. The guy has done it all and is knowledge is nothing short of intimidating. He makes me feel like an ant with impostor syndrome and I've been gigging consistently for almost 20 years.
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Dave, I wish more folks with your knowledge and expertise would be as open and willing to share (even if it comes with some unsubstantiated hate). We are all blessed to be able to consume the content you are putting out.
Awesome and thank you!
Absolutely agree!! Dave has given insight into a lot of common issues faced by engineers. If you don't like his methods, you're at least thinking about them and how you can do even better. For me, one of these pieces of gold was doing a stereo mix for subs. What a game changer!! We all need to keep thinking, experimenting and evolving like Dave! :)
Love the testing and pushing to make things better and not just doing things the same old way. Let's rock some cool new fun stuff!
I think what you’re doing for sound engineers out there like me is nothing short of awesome. Over the last year I’ve designed a sound system for my church and without your many videos about the fundamentals of sound I likely would have never known about or been able to take them into consideration for my Church’s system.
I thank you very much Dave and God bless you and keep you.
Awesome!!!
Got to factor in the rat.
The Rat factor .
The advanced knowledge that swirls in your brain, it’s a lifetimes worth and growing.
Addressing those commentaries steers a lot of love out there for the haters and blind beliefs .
Thank you.
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I am Dave's age and have been doing sound since I was 18 too (yes I remember crown DC300s, Phase Linear 400, and Macintosh mc240 amps). I love to continue to build my own speakers as a woodworker, a delightful pass time. I eat up all Dave's videos and have learned a great deal. Please keep sharing the knowledge and experience Dave! You are unselfish. I'm very grateful and love to learn more.
Super cool Kimo!
I think its very brave and fearless of you to do these Reddit videos and to do it with such good humour is admirable. I've been a professional FoH engineer since 1980 and have issues with confronting criticism, even if it is objective, critical and I can learn from it. As an official 'old guy' I have definitely learn from the answer Reddit posts.I last worked with you in the UK on some Juliette Lewis & The Lick shows. Keep up the posts and keep answering your critics in positive, non aggressive manner Dave. #Bigpowa
Super cool and thank you Dalton! It can be challenging to look past the personal attacks and focus on the reasons for the attacks. When undeserved, the attacks are almost always founded in fears. And I do my best to step back and make sure my responses are based communication rather than emotion
Don’t be discouraged Dave, the hell with those negative comments. I appreciate your contributions to the Industry. Greetings from Malaysia.
God bless you Dave🙌🏾. You earned my respect. I am 23 and I am on your trajectory, I own a rental business and I hope to get as big and bigger than you, I just learnt the something I would not have known regarding frame of mind and handling dicey issues, God bless you
I wish you well on your adventures!
I love these comments from people that don't actually mix live shows. I do all the time and try out all the things you talk about and they all make my shows better. could never thank you enough Dave for sharing your knowledge and experience, I been doing this 26 years and I learn something new in all your videos. rock on mate you are a legend whether people like it or not.
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Dave, you are a RUclips jewel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you TB!
Dave, i have been following your blog and you tube channels since 2011. I attended one of your seminars in 2013. I have used and applied many of your helpful techniques to great success. I am amazed at how many critics of your channel have probably never fixed a mic, cable, mixer or stage speaker. They completely miss the point. We should never take anything for granted. Love what you do, please keep sharing the knowledge.
Super cool and thank you Alex!
What city seminar! Great to hear from you
@@DaveRat Cape Town. During Chilli Peppers tour.
Awesome, Super cool, I really enjoyed it there.
Very cool and thank you!
Hi Dave, I hope none of these messages affect you. I've been following you online for 16 years. I spend more time in the studio, but from time to time I mix live for some bands I worked with in the studio. Since the beginning of your blog and before many of the current social networks became popular, your interest in teaching the experiences lived in the first level of the world of professional audio was always noticed, no matter who they were or how big or small were the gigs of those who followed you and consulted. I always took away something useful from each of your blog entries at a time when obtaining information about our profession was much more difficult. It is not necessary for me to tell you, but as soon as you are interested and want to do it, keep doing that great work in parallel that you have been doing with teaching, with the generosity and desire that characterize you that many people from all over the world respect you and care what you have to say. Greetings from Argentina. (Pardon my english)
PS: I think I only heard you mix the RHCP once and it sounded great, was in a festival and when the band walked in it's like the sound got bigger and the thousands of people next to me exploded with excitement.
SO cool and thank you Luciano!!
You’re a national treasure Dave! Thank you for everything you do for our entire industry. Way to handle the haters with style and grace.
Shit talk comes from a place of insecurity and self doubt.
Stay groovy dude! 🤙🏽
Thank you Joseph!
"My name isn't Dave Rat" 😅 I love how measured you are in your responses to these posts. Thanks Dave!
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I'm sure there's a Spartacus joke in there somewhere.
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Ignore that guy he’s so wrong. I’ve learned tons from your free videos. Really appreciate you. Your knowledge level is otherworldly.
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I don't care what people say about you. I learned so much from you. You are a great teacher and people are just jealous because you are successful.
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Thanks Dave. Always refreshing. Appreciated!
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this is my favorite person alive. The most legendary tales
Thank you David and I am honored!
I did some work on signal processing (beamforming, source direction determination and blind source separation). Audio is the most complex signal there is to work with. No other signal have 120dB amplitude and 20 to 20K range. I'm serious about sound and that's why I love your videos!
Hey Hey Max Headrom cool cool
I incorporate stuff I’ve learned from Dave into my mix on the daily. Thank you Dave!
That is wonderful!
Keep doing what your doing Dave!! Don't change a thing!
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After years of working in this industry if I’ve learned anything it’s you can and will learn from everyone if you humble yourself just a little. I am not a rocket scientist but Dave Rat is!
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Dave the fact that you share your knowledge is appreciated here. The fact that you have a members area seems to bother some because it would cost them something. Seems this has a side of jealousy not criticism. I have done FOH for lots of gigs inside and out. I have audience's leaving venue say great sound could have been a bit louder and the individual behind him said good sound just a bit too loud. You can never achieve 100% delighted but we try! Thanks for your info appreciated here! Free Island Audio Productions
Thank you Randy and keep rocking!
You don’t really need to respond to tools, Dave- they enjoy negative gossip, because jealous kvetching is easier than hard work. To them, it’s anybody else’s fault that they are stuck where they are, and today that anybody is you. 🙄 Love your optimism and openness!
Thank you and hey, I made 5 videos sharing info based on the reddit comments, so for me it was kind of fun and hopefully interesting and helpful to others.
I love you Dave! Always had love your attitude. Love your work ethic. And I've always loved your shows any of the ones that you've done anyhow. Those who don't know speak the rest of us just get the job done. Carry on Old Man
Thank you Sean!!
Same here. And Dave's way of approaching things can be applied to pretty much anything in life imho.
My favorite video to date. I'll echo what others have said: you're contributions are and will continue to improve our unique industry. You are a great friend and scholar. Cheers!
Awesome Rob and thank you!
Thank you Dave for all the excellent insight and wealth of Info! I’m a small time guy but a lot of the EQ Info you give has help bring me consistency and confidence! Forget the Reddit trolls. They can’t know venue limitations, electrical limitations or any of the engineering and thought that went Into a show. They only think they know how something should sound because they herd it that way in thier car or crappy Bose Bluetooth speaker. I had a guy making my life crazy once because it didn’t sound like Hillsongs album. Well first buddy we have 1/3 the musicians on stage..
Thank YOU!!
Dave, once again your passion / creativity shines! keep preaching the truth!
Thank you and while I don't claim to know truths, I do try and share things that are highly probable to be useful and repeatable.
I love mixing live sound and I appreciate all of Dave’s insights. I may not use all of them due to time or need, but Dave is filling my tool box with things I never even thought I needed
Cool cool Adam!
Dave, It’s amazing what you have accomplished and the knowledge you share is awesome. We can sense your passion and love for what you do. My only hope is that you don’t internalize or give value to any of these haters. Onward!!
All good, I look at it like jumps in the snowboard park!
you rock Dave... as you said its about having fun, share ideas and everyone enjoy the show.
Who else knows that the inventor Robert C Webber is the grandfather of The owner of ratsound ?
I only discovered your videos a week or two ago (the super long cat5 mic test) and then stumbled upon some of the decorrelation stuff. Now I'm not in the industry, but I'm an EE that designs and manufactures circuit boards. I've done some mixing for friends just screwing around. When you talk about all your ways of doing things it just clicks. You're an excellent teacher. The people who have so much negative to say must not actually watch. You're inspiring me to work on my massive hifi setup again. 4 crown com-tech 400s running 4 pairs of alesis monitor one mk2. 2 amps left, 2 amps right. I've got an old DC-300 that works perfect but I haven't had time to build a good subwoofer yet.
Awesome and thank you and yes! Build subwoofer!
I am looking to do a vid on a unique subwoofer build soon.
Great to meet ya
Hahaha oh no, ya go me Dave! I guess I need to dial things back a bit and should more appropriately attribute doing things differently as just a different approach and not jump to thinking it's wrong. I am ready to admit fault here for my comments made, and frankly I don't have enough info on your work to really be making any assessments on you. My apologies. I let my past bad experiences with some other engineers get in the way.
I'm going to take this opportunity to try and have my ego take a step back so I can be more open to people and their ideas. I may still disagree with some of your methods but hey, that's alright.
Josh, you are awesome and just made my day! I really appreciate and respect you r response here. And there are few things in life that are truly right or wrong from every possible perspective but there are things that have a higher probability of resulting in a desired outcome.
LOL!! I love the responses. I first met you in the early-90s when I part of Kevin Lyman/Ray Woodbury's Claremont crew (Janes, Lollapalooza, The Palace, Palladium). I was in awe then. I'm in awe now.
Awesome and thank you Victor! And I still stay in touch with Kevin.
“This is a dream adventure”
Man. Respect, yes it is.
Yeah who would have knew we could listen to music and generate invisible energy for people to enjoy for a living? And how could that possibly make people grumpy?
Keep it up Dave, Ignore the haters completely. if I were you I wouldn't even make videos about their comments.
It's an opportunity to cover some topics that I normally may skip over
Dave…you rock brother!! Hate always comes from below!! I love your videos and learning from you. Not once have I felt like you are negative person…love the videos!!
Tha k you Daniel!!
Love you Dave! Your access to hardware and insight is worth every penny.
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Dave is a legend. What a wonderful and extremely bright master. 👏🏻
Thank you Ernie!!
keep up the good work and please don´t stop producing videos on your take on sound. I
tś so refreshing to see a sound engineer / technician that really want to explore new things to improve on his own skills and also sharing it to people like me that share the same passion about sound.
So cool and thank you Kristopher!
Being a paying member for years has been a bargain, Dave is Authentic, the personification of the liberated sound guy, thx for sharing Dave!
It has been such a joy in my professional audio life to grow future engineers.
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Right, you always are trying new ideas. Like it.
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People can be so dramatic. Thanks again for sharing your experience and insight!
Cool cool thank you!
You are an awesome guy. I tinker constantly with large sound, "what if" mockups constantly, making mixed sound system brands work together. Right now I am experimenting with various material types for woofers to increase transient response and cone stiffness and types. My reference woofer is a yamaha ja 3882 (lightest cone fastest response woofer to date, unless you know of another one). I picked up a bunch of EAW LA400's and tested several 12 inch drivers in them and got interesting results from these small subs.
Super cool and yes, exploring low mass high rigidity cones to make faster woofers is cool.
Love Ya Dave❤ As a sound tech who worked with/for Keith Olsen at Sound City Goodnight LA I’m on your side of things 100%. These negative comments toward you should be treated as entertainment as they sound idiotic in nature from a bunch of kids who don’t know much of anything except what they’ve ‘read’ in a magazine ❤❤
Another nod for Dave. Keep the videos coming.
Will do and thank you
I've always been a fan of you Dave. Your ideas and teaching have helped me since almost the beginning of my sound career. The thing I love about this job is there's an infinitum way to make things sound good. Everyone does things differently and you can learn from every single engineer out there. Even that engineer that does things in a way you think is stupid. If it sounds good, then he knows something you don't. Thank you for this response to Reddit series and your work in general. While I don't know if I would ever use your techniques (will try soon), I will add them to the list of knowledge that is infinite in this career.
Cool cool and let me know if ya do try new stuff and how it works for ya
Liked the video - Looking forward to Episode 5!
Dave
I love all your videos
You are doing a great job really helps me with lots of tips and great knowledge
Please keep doing these videos
Thank you
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Dave, you have a great mind, thank you for sharing your insights. Lots of the data helps me in the studio as well. Rock on, brother.
I find it fascinating that people are commenting that they don’t understand your ideas.
As a monitor engineer I strive to understand the meaning behind the words that are said.
I’ve tried the panning of the two kick mics and the Bass DI and bass mic. It was very effective at the show I did it at.
You have to listen and think when people talk.
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Thanks for calling out these keyboard warriors! I've been a fan for a while. You are definitely knowlegable, and back it up with repeatable experiments. That's what sets you apart from many of the others! Lots of haters out there, that don't have a clue about the science of sound. They probably couldn't spell Phase if their life depended on it! Keep on doing your thing!
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I knew concerts were a lot louder in the 90s!! Love the content!
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Hey Dave , I completely enjoy your videos. Some I get some I don’t. So watch them over and over till I get them. Overall it’s a good experience. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Thank you Bharat and stay curious and learning always
RUclips is all about business… entertainment and education are both part of entertainment. Appreciate it, embrace it.
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Much respect Dave. I’ve always admired your drive to not only create & innovate but also share all knowledge you’ve learned throughout your career. I’ve learned a great deal from you in my 12 years of being an audio engineer. Also, I was today years old when I learned that Rat isn’t actually your last name…
Thank you Jeff and the appreciation of my efforts and hopefully making a positive impact in peoples lives makes this all worth while
You're so great that you find the time to answer this dumbiness...Virgilio told Dante:"Non ragionam di loro, ma guarda e passa" You're so great, your video are gold!!
Great stuff and will dive more into Dante and Virgilio thank you
"Ragionar di loro" is pretty important nowadays, though. Dumb people and haters aren't always easy to spot. They often masquerade themselves as "experts" and it's often easy for a newbie to fall for their nonsense.
What Reddit has done for me is pointing me to Dave's videos, so I guess not all haters hit their target :D
Welcome!
Well Dave What-Ever-Your-Name-Is (LOL), they are all talking about YOU! That must make you proud! Regardless if their comments are good or bad, ok or bad spelling or grammar, they are talking about Dave Rat. I say... GREAT JOB!! Unlike them, you are someone!!
And we all get to chat about sound!
Seems to me like it isn't even about pride. It's about sound. That's the respectable part to me.
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Love your work Dave, and your character is unparalleled!!! Been loving your videos for what feels like a decade now. Repeatedly given me the confidence to push things further than what was thought possible, and keeping a cool humble mind the entire time. You’re a huge inspiration! Hope to knock elbows with ya some day!
I also had the pleasure of fooling the measurement mic at Red Rocks by slightly delaying the right sub stack enough to push the null right over mic at FOH. It’s fun to play dirty sometimes 😈😹
OMFG! This is going to be shared with my students as we cover 'audio disinformation' in the courses I teach. Last time I mixed outdoors for a few thousand people, I was capped at 85dBA at 20 metres from FOH. At the mix position, I was measuring around 95. Nobody would be there if it were even averaging 120dB!! We have sound caps in bigger venues in Toronto, Canada of less than 100dBA. 130dB? Maybe, if you were to glue your head to a speaker. My two cents worth. Cheers!
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So much respect for you Dave. And great response.
Dave, Your info and knowledge is too valuable and genuine. do not let scum bags ruin your hapiness. Keep doing what you're doing. wish you all the joy, happiness and health in the world, , god bless...
Wonderful and thank you. If people really know and understand, they don't tend to feel anger when someone has a different opinion, perspective or misunderstanding.
When you see anger and fury you also find doubt and confusion as curiosity, learning and teaching are not well served by emotional outbreaks.
You sound like a real down to earth guy. Thanks for the video. Some great advice, cheers
Thank you Joey!
Why do you read these? They're just gonna bring you down. You know, you know what you're doing. The ones of us watching that know, know you know what you're doing. So just keep on keeping on man! I love your videos because you are such an outside the box thinker. I always learn something new or at least learn a new way to think about something. You're the only (sound) person on RUclips that doesn't just regurgitate something someone else said.
Thank you thank you! And these don't bring me down. They challenge me to be more clear, a better communicator and tests the integrity of the concepts I share.
All good and appreciate you!!
Please keep doing these videos 😂....pure internet gold!!!
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Interesting to learn more of your past. Your career evolution is enviable, which is what I see in some of these comments
Thank you Shawn!
A dream adventure indeed. Other people might make more money but few have more variety.
Agreed, I am honored and humbled to have the wonderful life of all things sound as my career!
On any topic, Reddit is suited to a certain personality type. The snob. The misfit. The know it all. It's a gathering of misfits, but not in the cool "Dirty Dozen" way.
I am remiss to catgorize an entire latform based on the actions of a few. And perhaps the venting of opinions may seem frivolous but also look at the bigger picture of 10s of thousands of people reading their comments and the responses, may be a net positive.
@@DaveRat Why is there road rage? People get mad on the road who would never have bad manners otherwise. So maybe some generalizations are kind of true. I posted a few things from record engineering college in 1980 that did not go over well on reddit. Why bother? Everyone just goes with what their telephone says is true.
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Unfortunatly youtube commentors can be just as bad
@@stehfreejesseah7893 I have fun on RUclips. I logged out of reddit. I tried it. I posted the truth about the "UFOs". They're part of our missile defense system. No alien visitation. That's a psyop. And that one was actually pretty well received, ironically;).
Bang on man! Bang on. Thanks for sharing the love
Thank you Jonathan!!
You must be getting good if that many become jealous! Whatever all of this, what I get from Maestro Dave is he’s sharing knowledge positively and seems to care about the outcome in music. The music. Music is not symmetrical. Paintings are not all square. Mixers are musicians, or should become.
Perfect and perceptive
lmao I love you Dave keep up the great work! as a new FOH engineer you have taught me so much!!
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Proud to have hit the 1K like!
You’re a good man, Mr Rat!
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THIS IS THE ONLY RUclips CHANNEL I HAVE THE BELL ON!!! I LOVE THESE DAVE!!!
Honored!!
I couldn’t agree more that this industry needs to be a fun one and is not medical science. However, there are many in this industry that don’t see it that way and probably wouldn’t hold down a job anywhere else for that matter.
Yeah, why make doing sound suck?
Dave mixed RHCP at Arco Arena a famously awful sounding venue, went when I was in high school expecting bad sound. Not even much of a RHCP fan, went for the Mars Volta and Hella at the time, and the show sounded phenomenal. It blew me away and I enjoyed RHCP more than I thought I would. Come to find that memorable show was mixed by Dave only recently. Would love to hear the critics mix in Arco Arena (RIP).
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RHCP always has great sound, anywhere. OTOH, maybe it helps if they know the right people to call and delegate to...
They do care about their sound
Their current sound engineer is okay, but I was very far from being blown away by the sound, at least last summer when they performed at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, WA, with Thundercat and The Strokes. The audio rig itself seemed good. It consisted of 20-some per hang d&b Audiotechnik GSL for main and side fills with 3 sets of 12-ish KSL delay hangs and some sl-sub subwoofers, a line of 6 or so on the ground and 10 per side flown. Front fills looked like d&b V7p. This equipment came from eighth day sound, based on the badges stuck to the speakers. On stage, monitors were d&b V and M series for Thundercat and The strokes, but RHCP switched to Clair Global Cohesion series for some reason. The FOH system was quite good in the high frequencies, and very clear, but bass was nonexistent, making it sound harsh/boring in some cases. I almost never have this issue with d&b systems, in fact, those are some of my favorite live sound subs! Also, since we had floor seating, there was the problem of sound echoing off the stands in behind us, but that’s basically unavoidable in a baseball stadium.
Sounds about right.
The 130db reading may have come from a phone app if it was in the right era for that to have been a thing. Many SPL phone apps must be calibrated before they give a somewhat correct reading. I have been loving all of your videos you have been posting over the last few years because it feels like the aricles I used to read in live sound magazine 20 years ago.
It always cracks me up when someone whips out their phone and just declares the 125dB reading factual without any self doubt.
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@@MarkFunderburk Yessir! People have done that to me a few times. "That's 120db!" I calmly pull out the real meter and it's 90db C weighted 🤦
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Great content as always Dave,Great videos so keep em Coming..Learned loads off your Chanel during the lockdowns.Thanks So Much 👍
Cool cool Mark!
Hey Soundy Mc Soundface, Heary McEarface here... even when you feed the trolls on reddit I'm learning stuff! If you go down that rabbit(reddit) hole I wish you the very best of journeys back with the a good Alice. Please keep your Mad Hatters hat on we need you here on the other side!!
All good, after so many years dealing with high profile artists, management, audiences and being in the public eye, I am a professional fireball handler!
I've enjoyed following your career and occasionally rubbing elbows over the years. I was house head at Santa Monica Civic years ago. You gave me some iffy mic stands which served me well. If you are at Brookside this week, I hope we have a chance to talk.
Awesome, headed there now for a meeting today.
Best response possible, I love Dave more now! 😂😂❤
Thank you Brian!!
I used tour and mix The Cramps long time ago. Good ole days.
Good stuff I've done a bunch of shows with them over the years and I'm still friends with Nikki Beat. Oh and bought a surfboard from the new drummer not long ago