Love that non of these were "how to eq/compress/whatever, whatever instrument" these are life lessons more than mixing advice, but the value they offer surpasses any eq setting discovered by man
I'd like to chip in and commend your channel as one of the most rational and considered audio channels on YT. So much common sense and practical advice, compared with all those 'muricans banging on about their waves systems smashing it. I've been in the 250-350 cap world for the last 20 years and pretty much everything you cover is aligned with my experience. Keep going - you're doing a great job here.
The day you think you have nothing to learn give it up. No one ever knows it all, and even the dumbest person in the room knows something the smartest does not. Never Stop Learning this world is to big to ever know it all.
I got into this by accident a couple of years ago after I finished a 24 year career in the Army. I went in eyes wide open only knowing that I knew nothing. Every day is a learning day with “RUclips University”. So thanks Andrew you are by far my favourite “University Lecturer” 😊. Your content is greatly appreciated.
Best all-round advice I've heard in years of watching sound videos. At 69, I've played in bar bands and dabbled at running sound for years, but I learn something new with every gig. The bands I run sound for tell me they like my mixes, but I know that a lot of what I do is guesswork, and I need to get better at really understanding every aspect of mixing a band. Videos like yours are indispensable learning tools. The bit about listening to monitors really hit home as I haven't really done that (but will definitely start).
Sounds like you've got some happy bands. Don't worry. I forget to listen to the monitors all the time. Half of this is just advice to myself. I'm the end a good show and happy people is the sign of a job well done. Everything else is just details.
The self protection tip is a good one - I’m going to focus on safety boots: the steel toe caps have been replaced with Kevlar/composites and still meet approvals, plus they’re lighter and more comfortable. Spend money on these- you’ll thank yourself on one of those 14+ hour days in -15degree weather. Also- Dante and wireless training should be higher on the list.
Hey Andrew! We met at Vulkan in Oslo in early November. (I am the sound engineer for VOLA). I really love your videos, your approach and mindset! Thank you for being such a nice and easy to work with local engineer. Forgot to greet the locals in Glasgow unfortunately. Hope to meet you some day again, until then I will follow your channel. Best regards Rudi.
Hey Rudi! Thanks so much. That was a cool show. I seem to remember it being a long and busy day for you guys and you certainly made my life easy so thanks are due both ways. I hope you at least made time in Glasgow for a deep fried pizza 😜 I'm sure we'll run into each other again, if you're ever around just hit me up.
Don't forget about makeup gain on the compressor. In fact, needing more level out of the vocal really should be addressed at the fader anyway, at least versus the gain as the first line of attack. The gain should've already been set at sound check, and unless the meter tells you that you missed it by a mile trying to account for being sandbagged (and you weren't sandbagged)... then bringing the channel fader up should be the first line of attack to make the singer louder (rather than changing the input gain and changing everything in the channel strip (and signal chain)... as well as that changing the comp threshold). If bringing up the fader doesn't seem to be working as it should, then experience should then guide the operator to follow the signal chain and look for things like DCA and subgroup assignments and make sure something isn't wrong there... and of course... the compressor itself. If the compression is on the vocal bus, then driving the channel fader harder will still push it into more compression. But in either case it's also possible, you WANT that compression... And whether on the channel or bus, that's where the compressor makeup gain comes into play. And then that circles back to- Yes, with a pre-fader insert compressor on the channel, the fader itself essentially IS makeup gain when you start pushing the fader ever higher. Except, unlike with the channel gain, you're not driving the compressor harder and chasing your tail. But using the compressor makeup gain as intended can allow the channel fader to drop back down into a more normal 'looking' range.
Lessong 9 hits harder and really takes time to learn 😂. Im starting a new journey of system engineering. I hope you'll make a tutorial for subs alignment, front fill alignment, how to make and check phase all system, and many more. It gonna help a number of emerging engineers as well. Best regard
Thanks so much for watching. I'd like to make some system engineering stuff. I agree that Michael Curtis has great content and I've learned a lot from him about this stuff. But I can definitely share my perspectives and what I know.
Thank you so much. Your tips on gating, compression and routing in your other videos have been extremely helpful. Question, where do you become Donte and shure wireless certified/trained. I had a lead singer freak out on me because his IEM that he supplied wasn’t working and I guess it’s the sound man’s fault like everything else is, lol.
re-gates: there's a hand full of consoles which have issues with the attack & hold being too short. You end up with distortion because the software can deal with 0ms or close to 0ms.
yeah number 10 the most important do a work and safety manual handling course take tai chi lessons. my tendinitis is now much better I believe because I now Eat a lot of beef that only leaves my back I don't lift anything anymore😊
Love that non of these were "how to eq/compress/whatever, whatever instrument" these are life lessons more than mixing advice, but the value they offer surpasses any eq setting discovered by man
I'd like to chip in and commend your channel as one of the most rational and considered audio channels on YT. So much common sense and practical advice, compared with all those 'muricans banging on about their waves systems smashing it. I've been in the 250-350 cap world for the last 20 years and pretty much everything you cover is aligned with my experience. Keep going - you're doing a great job here.
Thank you very much. It always makes my day to get comments like that.
The day you think you have nothing to learn give it up. No one ever knows it all, and even the dumbest person in the room knows something the smartest does not. Never Stop Learning this world is to big to ever know it all.
Absolutely
I got into this by accident a couple of years ago after I finished a 24 year career in the Army. I went in eyes wide open only knowing that I knew nothing. Every day is a learning day with “RUclips University”.
So thanks Andrew you are by far my favourite “University Lecturer” 😊. Your content is greatly appreciated.
I'm flattered. I'm very happy you find it helpful 🙂
Best all-round advice I've heard in years of watching sound videos. At 69, I've played in bar bands and dabbled at running sound for years, but I learn something new with every gig. The bands I run sound for tell me they like my mixes, but I know that a lot of what I do is guesswork, and I need to get better at really understanding every aspect of mixing a band. Videos like yours are indispensable learning tools. The bit about listening to monitors really hit home as I haven't really done that (but will definitely start).
Sounds like you've got some happy bands. Don't worry. I forget to listen to the monitors all the time. Half of this is just advice to myself. I'm the end a good show and happy people is the sign of a job well done. Everything else is just details.
We need to constantly be learning new things and evolving. Well done
The self protection tip is a good one - I’m going to focus on safety boots: the steel toe caps have been replaced with Kevlar/composites and still meet approvals, plus they’re lighter and more comfortable. Spend money on these- you’ll thank yourself on one of those 14+ hour days in -15degree weather.
Also- Dante and wireless training should be higher on the list.
Amazing video this one, great advice! Couldn't agree more.
Hey Andrew! We met at Vulkan in Oslo in early November. (I am the sound engineer for VOLA). I really love your videos, your approach and mindset! Thank you for being such a nice and easy to work with local engineer. Forgot to greet the locals in Glasgow unfortunately. Hope to meet you some day again, until then I will follow your channel. Best regards Rudi.
Hey Rudi! Thanks so much. That was a cool show. I seem to remember it being a long and busy day for you guys and you certainly made my life easy so thanks are due both ways. I hope you at least made time in Glasgow for a deep fried pizza 😜 I'm sure we'll run into each other again, if you're ever around just hit me up.
Don't forget about makeup gain on the compressor. In fact, needing more level out of the vocal really should be addressed at the fader anyway, at least versus the gain as the first line of attack. The gain should've already been set at sound check, and unless the meter tells you that you missed it by a mile trying to account for being sandbagged (and you weren't sandbagged)... then bringing the channel fader up should be the first line of attack to make the singer louder (rather than changing the input gain and changing everything in the channel strip (and signal chain)... as well as that changing the comp threshold). If bringing up the fader doesn't seem to be working as it should, then experience should then guide the operator to follow the signal chain and look for things like DCA and subgroup assignments and make sure something isn't wrong there... and of course... the compressor itself.
If the compression is on the vocal bus, then driving the channel fader harder will still push it into more compression. But in either case it's also possible, you WANT that compression... And whether on the channel or bus, that's where the compressor makeup gain comes into play.
And then that circles back to- Yes, with a pre-fader insert compressor on the channel, the fader itself essentially IS makeup gain when you start pushing the fader ever higher. Except, unlike with the channel gain, you're not driving the compressor harder and chasing your tail. But using the compressor makeup gain as intended can allow the channel fader to drop back down into a more normal 'looking' range.
Excellent advice. Thanks for sharing!
All I want to do is make my own music, but I did do music production school, your a Jedi brother, much respect 💪😎🤙
Beautify spoken amigo.
Thanks for sharing your experience, great content. I really liked to hear tips from that point of view 😀👍👍🎶🎤
Thank you especially for lesson 9! It was an eye-opener for me.
Happy to hear it
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Lessong 9 hits harder and really takes time to learn 😂.
Im starting a new journey of system engineering. I hope you'll make a tutorial for subs alignment, front fill alignment, how to make and check phase all system, and many more. It gonna help a number of emerging engineers as well. Best regard
Michael Curtis has a pretty good RUclips channel for all things systems enginering, you might want to check him out.
@charlotteice5704 yeah I been following him as well, but Andrew has always been my favourite online teacher
Thanks so much for watching. I'd like to make some system engineering stuff. I agree that Michael Curtis has great content and I've learned a lot from him about this stuff. But I can definitely share my perspectives and what I know.
I learn each one of those lessons.
Thank you so much. Your tips on gating, compression and routing in your other videos have been extremely helpful. Question, where do you become Donte and shure wireless certified/trained. I had a lead singer freak out on me because his IEM that he supplied wasn’t working and I guess it’s the sound man’s fault like everything else is, lol.
ALL 10 AND ALL 10
Am 20 yrs and I have realised that I should protect my Ears and body
Good! Earlier than I realised so you've still got time
re-gates: there's a hand full of consoles which have issues with the attack & hold being too short. You end up with distortion because the software can deal with 0ms or close to 0ms.
thx a lot
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
dont be jealous... nice
yeah number 10 the most important do a work and safety manual handling course take tai chi lessons. my tendinitis is now much better I believe because I now Eat a lot of beef that only leaves my back I don't lift anything anymore😊
Great as always! :) (nr11, check volume of clip before uploading it? :D haha just kidding)
Congrats.. I have done 10 years also in Audio.....
Congrats! We're surviving haha
Speaking of mixing, can you master your videos a bit louder? When the ads cut in, they’re distractingly loud in comparison.
Personally, they're just right. And, with an ad-blocker in my browser, what adverts? Of course, the problem is the ads, not the content.