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Recording and Producing

Interviews and Articles


7 Sound Alternatives to Working for Free

Ebonie Smith Why are Female Producers Everywhere, Yes so Invisible?

Catherine Vericolli – A Sense of Wonder

MARTA SALOGNI STUDIO ENGINEER + PRODUCER:
BJORK, HOLLY HERNDON, BON IVER

In the Studio with Sylvia Massy

Rhiannon Mair: Well Engineered

Top Engineer Ann Mincieli Rules the NYC Music Scene with Her Jungle City Studios

Catherine Marks: Happy Accidents

Annette Cisneros – Working Behind Two Types of Desks – Offspring, Social Distortion, Alice in Chains

Behind The Glass: An Interview with Producer/Engineer Trina Shoemaker

Where Are All the Women Producers? Here Are Five Famous Ones

Why are Female Record Producers So Rare

Meet The Woman Engineering Your Favorite South African Hip-Hop Releases

More than a Few Female Music Producers

150 Female Producers You Need to Know

Where are All the Women Record Producers

Less than 5% of Audio Engineers are Women — This is My Story

Rhiannon Mair Interview – Multifaceted Music Production

Producer, songwriter, and gender diversity campaigner Carla Marie Williams

If You Want To Be Somewhere, You’ve Got To Occupy It’: How Women Are Changing The Face Of Engineering And Producing

Behind the Console: 10 Sound Engineers Changing the Game

Producing EDM

Beethoven’s Ninth in 5.1 Leslie Ann Jones, Wolfgang Fraissinet, Mike Pappas and a Lot of Digital Mics

Tutorials and Resources

Sylvia Massy: Unconventional Recording

Pro Audio Files

Pensado’s Place

Professional Advice For Home Studio Building

Mastering

Interviews and Articles


How to Master a Song with a Not-So-Perfect Sound

Jett Galindo | Mastering Engineer and Vinyl Cutter, The Bakery

Mastering for Vinyl: Tips for Digital Mastering Engineers

Mastering for Vinyl: Conversations With the Pros

Subtractive EQ: A Mastering Engineer’s Not-So-Secret Weapon

Communication skills: mastering engineer vs. automated mastering services

The Art of Mastering

Mastering Q&A with Jett Galindo

Interview with Doug Sax of The Mastering Lab

Piper Payne – Mastering Engineer

New Mastering Facility Is Neato – Piper Payne

Behind the Console: 10 Sound Engineers Changing the Game

How Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar Made Grammy History

Master blaster: the woman making Björk, Aphex Twin and Eno sound so good

Mandy Parnell: Mastering Björk’s Biophilia

Mandy Parnell: Mastering Audio

Mandy Parnell: The Art of Mastering

Mandy Parnell Interview – A Master Of The Industry

Darcy Proper wins surround sound Grammy

Preparing your music for mastering by Darcy Proper

Darcy Proper on the changing perception of mastering in the industry

Kim Rosen: of Knack Mastering

Anna Frick – Mastering Engineer

Less is more’: Mastering engineer Katie Tavini talks studio techniques and stereotypes

What is Mastering? Why Is It Important? | Audio Mastering

7 Reasons Mastering Music is Important

Tutorials

Learn about Analog Mastering – Mastering With Piper Payne: Professional mastering engineering Piper Payne discusses mastering and how to use her analog mastering console to master singles and albums.

iZotope Mastering Blog

 

Career Development

Career Development


7 Sound Alternatives to Working for Free

Career Development – Resources for Writing Cover Letters, Resumes, and Creating Professional Social Media

Cover Letter Mistakes

Tips on Writing your Resume

Invoicing 101

A top recruiter on what anyone can see after 30 seconds with your resume

How to set yourself apart from the competition and get the gig

Career Quitter: I’ve Quit More Jobs Than I Care to Remember

Company Man or Freelance Gypsy?

Why You Should Sometimes Work for Free

A Plan vs. an Attitude: How Dr. Webber Changed My Approach to My Career

Women in the Industry

Power Struggles: Work and Physicality

Proving Yourself

Stevie Nicks Talks About Being A Woman in the Industry

About Women in Audio, AES Style, and Losing (or finding) Your Voice

The Blame Game: Why We Need to Stop Blaming Women for Gender Equality

Our World Needs Empowered Women

Debunking the Women’s Studies Myth

This is what Tech’s Ugly Gender Problem Looks Like

Booth Babes: How Casual Sexism Hurts the AV Industry

The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind the Scenes Employment of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2014

More Women Worked Behind the Scenes on Movies in 1998 Than Do Today

Lights, Camera, Taking Action: On Many Fronts, Women Are Fighting for Better Opportunity in Hollywood

The Ping-Pong Theory of Tech Sexism: A true (illustrated) story

Bjork Talks Feminism

5 Speaking Habits That Weaken Women’s Leadership

On Sexual Harassment

Audio Programs

Sound & Recording Program at City College of San Francisco

New England School of Communications at Husson University

Cuyahoga Community College Recording Arts and Technology

Clair Global Road Staff Training Program

Britannia Row Training Program

Seattle SoundGirls

Volume, High SPL, and Hearing Health

The Seductive (Yet Destructive) Appeal of Loud Music

How to Take Care of Your Ears

Loud, Loud, Loud

Mixing LOUD monitors

Say What? Hearing Impairment, Ways To Compensate, And The Testing Process

The Scoop On SPL: Getting A Handle On Decibels And Distance

Church Sound: The Thorn In Every Sound Tech’s Side—House Volume Level

Dispelling the Inaccuracies of Hearing Loss in Sound of Metal

History of Sound

 

From Consoles to Surfaces

History of Recorded Sound

The Fender Rhodes

FOH Sound

FOH Sound


The Right Balance: The Diverse Career And Life Of Grace Royse

Bryony October Touring Engineer

Suzy Mucciarone on FOH and System Teching

Live Sound Engineer Amanda Davis: Forging A Fearless Career Path

In Profile: Passion For The Craft: The world of touring front of house engineer Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato.

In Profile: Beth Gladen – Sound Company Owner/Mix Engineer

The Sydney Opera House

Vivid Live 2014 at the Sydney Opera House

If You Want To Be Somewhere, You’ve Got To Occupy It’: How Women Are Changing The Face Of Engineering And Producing

Behind the Console: 10 Sound Engineers Changing the Game

Meet 10 Incredible Women Running Your Favorite Musicians’ Shows

The Hollywood Bowl’s Magician’s of Sound

The Saturday Gigs

Coachella Music and Arts Festival: Two Companies that Did!

Rat Sound Answers Your Questions about Coachella

Behind the Scenes with M83 at the Hollywood Bowl

Back to Basics: Gain Structure

Gain Staging in your DAW Software

Gain Structuring with Plug-Ins

Mixing Sound: Great Sound is just an Opinion

Alternative & Effective Approaches to Sound Check

Making the Leap: Becoming and Independent Mix Engineer

Steps to a Successful Pre-Production Process

Keeping the Gig: Opportunities to Excel While Earning Artist Trust

Making your Pre-Show more than a Playlist

Details, Details: Setting up Snake Channel 24

I’m Going to Fix it ‘Til the End

Chez Stock: The Girl With The Audio Tattoo(s)

System Tuning

Transfer Function Measurements With Smaart v8

Subs

Moving Air: Inside Subwoofer Design and Configuration

“Everything You Wanted to Know About Subwoofer” series features top authors from ProSoundWeb and Live Sound International providing their insights on the evolution, designs, configurations and more of sub-bass systems for live sound reinforcement.

The series offer six (6) chapters plus a BONUS chapter, all available as free downloads

If you missed any of the previous chapters, they’re also still available and listed below:

Polarity and Phase

What’s the Difference: Polarity vs. Phase

Graphic-Based Discussion That Clarifies The Differences In Polarity And Phase

Confusing Phase And Polarity?

Phase Vs Polarity: The Struggle To Understand Pro Audio’s Most Pervasive Inaccuracy

Phase & Polarity: Causes And Effects, Differences, Consequences

Moving The Problem Out Of The Way: Using Phase To Manage Feedback

Consoles

Avid S6L Videos with Robert Scovill

DiGiCo SD9 Training

DiGiCo YouTube

SSL Training

Midas Online Training

 

Monitors, Stage, and RF

Articles and Blogs

What’s Most Important: The Career & Influences Of Monitor Engineer Whitney Olpin

Trevor Waite – On Monitor Teching and Mixing Monitors for The Who

Kim Watson on Mixing and Teching Monitors

Monitor Team – Christina Moon and Eric McCallister

Kevin Glendinning on Mixing and Teching Monitors

Avoiding Feedback

Realizing Efficiencies in Monitorland

The Ultimate Guide to In-Ear Monitors, Straight from the World’s Best Monitor Engineers

Techniques for System and Wedge EQ

Using psychoacoustics in IEM mixing and the technology that takes it to the next level

Noted monitor engineer and mentor/educator Karrie Keyes, in profile.

Road Warriors – Stories From The Touring Women Who Keep The Music Sounding Sweet

Women in Audio: Becky Pell, Monitor Engineer, Yoga Teacher and Writer

If You Want To Be Somewhere, You’ve Got To Occupy It’: How Women Are Changing The Face Of Engineering And Producing

Meet The Woman Who’s Been Pearl Jam’s Sound Engineer For 24 Years

Consoles

Avid S6L Videos with Robert Scovill

DiGiCo SD9 Training

DiGiCo YouTube

SSL Training

Midas Online Training

All Things RF

RF Venue Blog Finding signal in the noise. RF Spectrum, wireless audio, and more.

Five Wireless Microphone Mistakes That Are as Common as They Are Avoidable

Common Sources of Interference

How to Take Control of Your Wireless Microphones

Common wireless system mistakes can lead to intermodulation products that cause RF interference

Digital Video Broadcast-Terrestrial and Wireless Microphones

RF Tools

Sennheiser Wireless Systems Manager

International Frequency Advisor

Shure Online tools and downloadable aids for Shure wireless equipment and applications.

Audio Technica Using Wireless Systems

https://www.prosoundweb.com/channels/live-sound/new-signal-to-noise-podcast/

Managing the Stage: Stage Plots, Input Lists, Stage Patch

List of Apps and Software for Designing Stage Plots

How to Create a Stage Plot and Input List

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It’s easy to miss the SoundGirls news and blogs, so we have put together a round-up of the blogs, articles, and news from the past week. You can keep up to date and read more at SoundGirls.org

December Feature Profile

Arica Rust: In Love with Live Sound Technology


Spotify and SoundGirls Team Up – EQL Directory



SoundGirls News

SoundGirl April Tucker joins Tonebenders Podcast featuring SoundGirls Career Paths in Film & TV

087 – SoundGirlsOrg: Career Paths in Audio Post-Production

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https://soundgirls.org/event/el-departamento-de-mezcla/?instance_id=1414

https://soundgirls.org/event/qsc-soundgirls-tour/?instance_id=1394

NAMM Mentoring Session 2019

She Rocks at NAMM Ticket Orders

SoundGirls NAMM Dinner

https://soundgirls.org/event/soundgirls-namm-breakfast/?instance_id=1418

SoundGirls Launches Initiative for Members Working in Production Sound

Shadowing/Mentoring/Internship Opportunities

Shadowing Opportunity – Greg Price – Ozzy

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