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
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
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
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.
7 Sound Alternatives to Working for Free
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
Power Struggles: Work and Physicality
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
The Ping-Pong Theory of Tech Sexism: A true (illustrated) story
The Seductive (Yet Destructive) Appeal of Loud Music
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
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: Beth Gladen – Sound Company Owner/Mix Engineer
Vivid Live 2014 at the Sydney Opera House
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
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)
Transfer Function Measurements With Smaart v8
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:
What’s the Difference: Polarity vs. Phase
Graphic-Based Discussion That Clarifies The Differences In Polarity And Phase
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
Avid S6L Videos with Robert Scovill
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
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
Meet The Woman Who’s Been Pearl Jam’s Sound Engineer For 24 Years
Avid S6L Videos with Robert Scovill
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
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/
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
SoundGirl April Tucker joins Tonebenders Podcast featuring SoundGirls Career Paths in Film & TVhttps://soundgirls.org/event/meet-soundgirls-co-founder-michelle-sabolchick-pettinato/?instance_id=1416
https://soundgirls.org/event/el-departamento-de-mezcla/?instance_id=1414
https://soundgirls.org/event/qsc-soundgirls-tour/?instance_id=1394
https://soundgirls.org/event/soundgirls-namm-breakfast/?instance_id=1418
SoundGirls Launches Initiative for Members Working in Production Sound
https://soundgirls.org/soundgirls-mentoring/
https://soundgirls.org/about-us/soundgirls-chapters/
Shadowing Opportunity with FOH Engineer Greg Price.
SoundGirls Members who are actively pursuing a career in Live Sound or Concert Production are invited to shadow FOH Engineer Greg Price on Ozzy.
Please fill out this application and send a resume to soundgirls@soundgirls.org with Ozzy in the subject line. If you are selected to attend, information will be emailed to you. Please note Load In will be at 7 am, and you are required to bring safety gear (hard hat, closed toed shoes, etc.)
Cities Available
About FOH Engineer Greg Price: As a live-sound engineer, Greg Price has worked with some of the biggest rock bands around. In addition to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, Greg has mixed everyone from Kiss, Chicago, Aerosmith, and Van Halen right through to Rage Against The Machine, Limp Bizkit, Velvet Revolver and Foo Fighters. Price also spent a very memorable eight years with Glen Campbell in the 1980s and even earned a few pop stripes a decade ago when he engineered for Hannah Montana (aka Miley Cyrus), Christina Aguilera and the Cheetah Girls. Read More Here