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Volume, High SPL, and Hearing

The Seductive (Yet Destructive) Appeal of Loud Music

How to Take Care of Your Ears

Loud, Loud, Loud

Mixing LOUD monitors

SoundGirls.Org Summer Video Contest

Enter to win an XLR Sniffer/Sender from Sound Tools!

SoundGirls.Org would like to put an introduction video together about live sound production and the Sound Girls that make it happen. The video will be used on our website and for educational outreach. (more…)

Consoles to Surfaces

By: Karrie Keyes

Mixing Consoles have come a long way, and we are apt to be mixing on a surface now. Here is a look back at the Clair Brothers Console.

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Women in Music

Kim Gordon: Women aren’t allowed to be kick-ass, I refused to play the game

LP Creating Music on her Terms

Cordell Jackson

Mayam Mahmoud

Use What You Have: An Interview With Kim Gordon

This is My Thing: An Interview With Kathleen Hanna

Patti Smith: by Thurston Moore

Punk has a Problem with Women. Why?

What You Might Not Know about Shelia E.

Carol Kaye is Paul McCartney’s Favorite Bass Player, He Just Doesn’t Know it was her.

Bjork Talks Feminism

Women in Audio

Behind the Scenes at NPR West

Jackie Green – VP of R&D/Engineering at Audio Technica

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

Why are Female Record Producers So Rare

The Sound Girls of Brazil

Renaissance Gal: Lisa Brownlee – Superstar Tour Manager

Where are All the Women Record Producers

The Five Percent: Profiles on Women in Audio

Catherine Marks: Happy Accidents

Be Unstoppable: The Attitude and Skills Required to Find Success as a Touring Sound Engineer

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

Meet Jane Tattersal: Sound Supervisor for Penny Dreadful

Meet Paula Fairfield Sound Designer on Game of Thrones

Sounds Like Success: Sudhish Kamath

Front and Center: Women’s Audio Mission Founder, Terri Winston

Reflections on Production Sound, in the Company of Jan McLaughlin

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

Lucy Johnstone – Sound Editor for Top Gear

The Woman Behind The Oscar-Nominated Sound Of ‘Unbroken’

Why Are There so Few Women in AV?

 

 

Career Development

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

Student Loans – Student Debt

Cover Letter Mistakes

Tips on Writing your Resume

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

On Women’s Issues

Power Struggles: Work and Physicality

Proving Yourself

Stevie Nicks Talks About Being A Woman in the Industry

How Women Sabotage Themselves

It’s a Man World? Darryn De La Soul on Being a Sound Engineer

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

 

 

Music

The History of The English Brass Bands

Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

At The Cradle of Country Music, A Monument You Can Hear As Well As See

Champion Sound! When Huddersfield Ruled the British Reggae Scene

Must Visit Music Destinations

 

 

Live Sound

Venues – Gigs

The Sydney Opera House

Vivid Live 2014 at the Sydney Opera House

The Hollywood Bowl’s Magician’s of Sound

The Saturday Gigs

Working Coachella and Surviving Festival Season: How Two Monitor Engineers Approach Festival Season

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

The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Sound Wisdom

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

Techniques for System and Wedge EQ

Avoiding Feedback

Realizing Efficiencies in Monitorland

Moving Air: Inside Subwoofer Design and Configuration

What’s the Difference: Polarity vs. Phase

Details, Details: Setting up Snake Channel 24

Avoiding Intermod: The Importance of Wireless Frequency Coordination

I’m Going to Fix it ‘Til the End.

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

 

Audio and Music Production

The Ear Training Guide for Audio Producers

The Art of Mastering

Mastering Q&A with Jett Galindo

Interview with Doug Sax of The Mastering Lab

Producing EDM

Back to Basics: Gain Structure

Gain Staging in your DAW Software

Gain Structuring with Plug-Ins

Intro to Sound Design for Theatre

Details, Details: Setting up Snake Channel 24

True Lies and Digital Audio: Time for a Quick Trip Down the Disinformation Superhighway

The Saturday Gigs

What’s the Difference: Polarity vs. Phase

Dave Rat: Perception and Failed Illusions

The Conundrum Of “Ears Versus Education”

What The Hell Do Sound Mixers Do?  

What Are The Basics Of Mixing? Theory & Practice

 

 

 

 

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