A love for music, adventure, and traveling led Michelle to a career in live sound. She is a founder of SoundGirls.Org and blogs about life on the road, and what it takes to succeed in live sound.
I’ve been getting these questions a LOT lately- “How can I as a man support women in audio?” “What can we do to make the historically male-dominated world of audio/music production more inclusive to women?” “How do we get more women in audio and tech?”
It’s good to have an end goal in mind for where you want to be. Equally important is to clarify your motivations so you can be sure that your expectations are aligned with the realities of the job.
Once you start mixing more than a few shows, you’ll start to find that you have some preferences in how your console is laid out.
Everyone has a particular way of doing things, and it’s all a matter of what works for you. For instance: How you do your input patch will determine where things show up on the surface.
By: Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato It was my privilege to be asked to speak on this panel with so many other incredibly talented women.
By: Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato You can teach an old dog new tricks I had a wonderful opportunity recently to work side by side with another engineer who has been in the music business since before I was born…and I’m no spring chicken so that’s quite a notable amount of time. We spent three days together, […]