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Reimagining our Industry – Webinar
2020-09-12 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Reimagining our Industry – Webinar

Thanks to COVID-19 we are all now unwilling participants in a seismic experiment that is shaking the foundations of society, technology, economics, healthcare and our Industry. SoundGirls and ProSoundWeb are pondering how we might reimagine our industry.
As we move from survival to adjustment, from chaos to catalyst, the next normal (or abnormal) is being shaped right now.
COVID-19 and protests happening throughout the world have unmasked our current systems – the fragility of business and society, the consequences of urbanization and globalization, and our dependence on technology and healthcare. Activities in which consumers are likely to change behavior most are in travel, shopping, socializing, and live events.
We are faced with a choice to rebuild the world as it was or to realize the possibilities before us. Join a panel of industry veterans in a conversation about shaping the future of the pro audio industry.
Sept. 12 at 12:00 PM PST
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Moderator
Samantha Potter is an audio engineer and an editor for ProSoundWeb with a passion for writing and educating. Additionally, she serves as the “Install Empress” for Allen & Heath USA, helping to merge the live sound solutions we all love into the commercial and install space.
Growing up as a musician, Samantha found her way to live sound by way of the studio, proving that bassists make the best sound engineers. The host of Church Sound Podcast and a co-director and leader instructor for Church Sound University, Samantha can often be found teaching, writing, and hosting discussions on various live-sound topics.

Panelist Include
Alesia Hendley is an Audiovisual professional that found her passion at a young age as a sound engineer within her Father’s church. Now you can find her making connections within AV, Digital Signage and IT, along with executing creative ventures. As a young professional she’s finding ways to bring AV technologies, and creative visions together in the effort to leave her mark by making an impact.

Jeri Palumbo has been a broadcast audio mixer and specialist for the past 27 years in Sports and Entertainment. Prior to her work in broadcast, she spent years as a trained musician and arranger on the music side of the business before going into post-production and eventually live broadcast. With a current focus on live remote broadcast events, Jeri’s work has included the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, Super Bowl, World Series, Stanley Cups, the Oscars and more. Entertainment shows have included The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and American Idol to name a few. She also won a Telly Award for mixing the live bluegrass show “Songs of the Mountains.”Jeri has worn the hats of broadcast engineer/mixer, field audio, RF tech and communications and most recently broadcast A1 mixer for gaming eSports in immersive surround 5.1. Jeri served on the RF Coordination committee for the NFL, NBA All-Stars and serves in the same capacity for the Rose Bowl every year. Jeri also worked on the NFL’s Enhanced Audio team (sounds from the field) on its debut roll-out.

Bill Reeves has been working in the concert production industry for over 40 years. Starting out on the lighting crew. He graduated to LD/Production Manager within a couple of years and has been working exclusively as a Production/Tour Manager for better than 30 years. Highlights Luther Vandross (14 years), Prince (3 tours including Purple Rain), Stevie Wonder, Anita Baker, Maxwell, D’Angelo, Anthony Hamilton (14 years up to present).
Bill is also the co-founder along with Lance Jackson of Roadies of Color United.

Carlos Mosquera, born in Venezuela, has been passionate about music from a young age. Through Venezuela’s National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs called “El Sistema,” a music education program that reaches 400,000 children, Carlos received his Bachelor in Music. After playing with Symphonic Orchestras and ensembles around the world, he then graduated with a B.A. in Sound Technology from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in the U.K. After graduating,
Carlos has become immersed in music and sound technologies. He has been a Recording/Mixing Engineer for organizations like the L.A. Philharmonic, The Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, The Herb Albert School of Music at UCLA, and L-ISA Applications Engineer and developer for L-Acoustics’ new immersive audio technology. As an L-ISA Engineer, he has worked on numerous major shows such as Lorde, Lady Gaga, Childish Gambino, Alt-J, LA Philharmonic, Deadmau5, Aerosmith, Bon Iver, Sleeping Beauty Dreams, Cages, among others.
On his own time, he developed a positional app for the visually impaired called “Guiding Sounds”, using inaudible impulses reproduced by speakers. It’s an accessible, scalable, and cost-efficient solution that allows blind individuals to access real-time information of their location, enabling them to find exactly where they are, and how to interact with the world in a whole new way, no internet required. Carlos’s passion for music, sound, mixing, and coding extends beyond his professional career
SIDNEY WILSON 40+ years in the professional audio industry, Sidney’s experience includes a multitude of positions from touring as a front of house engineer, monitor engineer and systems engineer. He also has had stints in the nuclear power industry, MRI (Super Conducting Magnets) industry, working on Particle Accelerators at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and teaching audio electronics. In addition, he has experience in design and building of recording studios. He decided to spread his wings into commercial real estate sales and analysis of 200+ apartment complexes, including real estate development projects and single tenant net lease properties nationwide.
However, his heart is in Audio and the last 10 years have been focused on high‐end professional digital console rentals, sales and service as Operations Manager at Hi‐Tech Audio, Inc., and starting a small company (Erevu Group) specializing in noise measurement, analysis, and solutions for large outdoor concerts and events.

Adamson Advanced Certification (2 Day) Paris, France
2020-09-08 - 2020-09-09
Adamson will be holding a 2 Day Advanced Certification course in partnership with DV2 in Paris, September 8th & 9th.
Advanced Certification is designed to expand the knowledge needed to properly design, deploy and control large and/or complex Adamson loudspeaker system, focusing on in-depth Blueprint AV™ techniques as well as streamlined work flow for E-Series and S-Series systems.
Over 2 days, attendees will have the opportunity to expand on their existing knowledge and experience to deploy an Adamson System and gain a deeper understanding of the technology that provides the backbone for these systems.
Topics covered will include:

Product overview
Venue measurement
System design
System preparation
System deployment
Tuning and alignment

Attendees interested in taking this course must have completed Applied Certification as a pre-requisite.
Get a head start with the pre-training material including the Education Series Videos, User Handbooks and sign up for a copy of Blueprint AV™
For more information and to sign up contact education.emea@adamsonsystems.com

Sennheiser - RF Fundamentals Webinar
2020-09-03 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
RF Fundamentals
Thom Salisbury of Sennheiser will review the recent FCC changes, explore RF theory Waves, propagation, intermodulation, types of modulation, and more. Then we will take a look at frequency coordination strategies, and rules of thumb for system design.
Time: Sep 3, 2020 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81064478440?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 810 6447 8440
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Transitioning in the Music Industry
2020-08-30 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Laura Nagtegaal and Savy Dunlevy share their stories of working and transitioning in the music industry.
Transgender people are in a unique position to see exactly how sexist dynamics in the workplace tend to play out and Laura and Savy will share their stories and experiences with us and what the industry needs to do to overcome sexism and transphobia.
We look forward to this discussion and are thankful that Laura and Savy want to share their stories with us.
August 30th at 12 PM PST
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Savy Dunlevy is a wireless and communications audio technician for broadcast television and live events. Although a newcomer to the world of audio, they have worked in and been involved with entertainment since birth. Some of their favorite projects include shows with HGTV, ABC Network, Broadway promotional shoots, Say Yes to the Dress, and Paul McCartney: Live at Grand Central.

Laura Nagtegaal – Laura’s career touring the world as a guitar technician, tour manager, and merchandiser started 25 years ago. With her sunny and infectious demeanor, she spreads her own newfound joy and youthful life force around.
Laura shared her story with SoundGirls last year and you can read it here Transitioning in the Music Industry

Unraveling Audio Networking An in-depth look at DANTE, AVB and MADI
2020-08-25 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Synthax will be hosting a webinar for SoundGirls and Rat SoundSystems on August 25th
Unraveling Audio Networking An in-depth look at DANTE, AVB and MADI –
Aug 25, 2020 – 2 pm – 3 pm Eastern Time with Synthax
In addition Rat Sound is offering all SoundGirls members, special discounts right now on products featured in the webinar as well as all the pro audio brands they sell including Sennheiser, Shure, Yamaha, RME, QSC and more. If you are decking out your home studio or just need a few miscellaneous cables, Email sales@ratsound.com directly for a quote.
https://www.synthax.com
To join Zoom meeting, click this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7542064220?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 754 206 4220
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Sexual Harassment in the Industry Seminar
2020-08-25 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
SoundGirls will be hosting Kim Warnick, the Executive Director of Calling All Crows, Kim has over a decade of sexual violence prevention and response experience, including a specialized focus on workplace sexual violence since 2016, and six years of music industry experience, she was uniquely situated to design and lead the #HereForTheMusic campaign to prevent sexual violence at concerts and festivals.

August 25

12:00 to 2:00 PM PST

Register Here

The seminar will cover:

What is sexual harassment? What does it look like?
What is legal definition vs unwelcoming (but not illegal) work environment?
What you can do if it’s already happening at work?
What can you do if it’s already happening to someone else at your workplace?
How can we proactively address this issue?
How can we be involved in this broader culture change?
Calling All Crows and #HereForTheMusic campaign

Kim Warnick, the Executive Director of Calling All Crows, is a professional with program design, project management, event production, facilitation, and communications experience in corporate, start-up, and nonprofit organizations. With a decade of sexual violence prevention and response experience, including a specialized focus on workplace sexual violence since 2016, and 6 years of music industry experience, she was uniquely situated to design and lead the #HereForTheMusic campaign to prevent sexual violence at concerts and festivals. After 9 tours with 3 different artists, she has opted to get off the road and settle into Long Beach, CA, a westward migration from spending most of her life in NH and MA. She holds a BA in Sociology from Harvard University, where her studies focused on social movements, organizational culture, and conflict and peacebuilding, including an intensive study in Rwanda.

How to be an Ally for Marginalized Groups in Audio
2020-08-20 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
How to be an Ally for Marginalized Groups in Audio

It’s time to stop talking about the lack of diversity in the audio industry. and do something about it. In order to do this, we need to understand the barriers marginalized groups face, institutionalized sexism and racism, double standards, and unconscious bias. This will be a continuing series and this first webinar will two-parts.
August 13 and August 20
2 PM to 4 PM PST
Register for August 13
Register for August 20

Moderator
MIKE BANGS – GEORGE STRAIT AEROSMITH, ERIC CLAPTON, KATY PERRY, TOM PETTY, LYNYRD SKYNYRD

Mike Bangs 20+ year career includes experiences as a monitor engineer and production manager for A-list acts including Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, George Strait, Katy Perry, Tom Petty, Kid Rock, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. An early advocate of live digital mixing, Bangs assisted a multitude of others in making the transition from analog in the early 2000s. A pioneer in surfaceless mixing that naturally gravitated to Allen & Heath, he built a close relationship with the manufacturer and ultimately joined the company to provide support to those on the road using dLive mixing systems.

Panelists
JERRY LOPEZ – EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS, CHICANO BATMAN, THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Named one the best LA-area live sound engineers by LA Weekly, Jerry Lopez mixes it up between running his own production company (Jerry Rig Audio) and engineering for some of the top acts in the world. Over the last 25 years he has mixed and supported a diverse range of acts like Run The Jewels, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Chicano Batman, and The Neighbourhood.
KARRIE KEYES – PEARL JAM, EDDIE VEDDER, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SONIC YOUTH

Hailing from Los Angeles, Karrie has spent the last 29 plus years as the monitor engineer for Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder. Karrie started out doing sound for punk bands in Los Angeles in 1986 under the tutelage of Dave Rat of Rat Sound, where she spent twenty years helping to establish the company. She was able to gain an immense amount of hands-on experience and technical knowledge at Rat, which eventually led to her becoming the monitor engineer for The Red Hot Chili Peppers from 1990-2000. She first met and started working with Pearl Jam who opened for RHCP on their 1991-1992 Blood Sugar Sex Magic Tour. She has worked with Sonic Youth, Fugazi, and Neil Young.

JIM YAKABUSKI – VAN HALEN, AVRIL LAVIGNE, MATCHBOX TWENTY

With nearly 40 years as a professional sound reinforcement engineer, Jim started out mixing as club bands in western Canada in the early 1980s. He soon transitioned to a role as a concert staff engineer at dB Sound and the rest is history. Even with a packed schedule of writing pro audio books, penning articles for top industry magazines, mixing Peter Frampton, Journey, Avril Lavigne, Van Halen, Gwen Stefani, Matchbox 20 and basically any huge name band you can think of — Jim always has time to talk about the latest mix techniques, the coolest gear and fun audio tips and tricks.
DANA WACHS – MGMT, ST. VINCENT, M.I.A
A Brooklyn based Audio Engineer, Tour Manager, and Composer/Musician. Dana started her career in music in 1994, as bass player for the Dischord band Holy Rollers, which ignited her interest in live sound, after a national tour supporting 7 Year Bitch. Her first foray into the practice of live sound began after that at the Black Cat DC, and later the infamous 9:30 club.
Dana’s first national tour was as TM/FOH for Peaches supporting Queens of the Stone Age in 2002. Her first International tour quickly followed in 2003 with Cat Power. Since then, touring has kept her on the road 9 to 11 months out of the year with bands such as MGMT, St. Vincent, M.I.A., Grizzly Bear, Foster the People, Nils Frahm, Deerhunter, and Jon Hopkins to name a few.
Outside of touring, Dana composes and performs under the name Vorhees, with two releases on Styles Upon Styles (Brooklyn), and is currently composing her first feature film score.
SALIM AKRAM – BAD RABBITS, BILLIE EILISH

A multitalented and diverse musician, songwriter and engineer, Salim Akram is currently mixing monitors for pop superstar Billie Eilish (2020 Grammy Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year winner). When he isn’t behind an Allen & Heath dLive mixing console on sold-out global tour dates, he can be heard playing guitar at festivals and on tour with bands such as the post-R & B futuristic funk-punk group Bad Rabbits.

Webinar Part One
We will discuss
Institutionalized sexism and racism
How unconscious bias affects who is hired
Each of our panelists will share their experiences and insights on how we can move towards an inclusive industry where people are judged and hired on their skills vs. gender and race.
Questions and Answers
Webinar Part Two
We will discuss double standards, toxic masculinity, and creating a safe work environment for all.
We will be providing resources and checklists unconscious bias and sexism and racism.
Steps you can take personally take to be an ally.
Creating a safe work environment for all
Questions and Answers

How to be an Ally for Marginalized Groups in Audio
2020-08-13 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
It’s time to stop talking about the lack of diversity in the audio industry. and do something about it. In order to do this, we need to understand the barriers marginalized groups face, institutionalized sexism and racism, double standards, and unconscious bias. This will be a continuing series and this first webinar will two-parts.
August 13 and August 20
2 PM to 4 PM PST
Register for August 13
Register for August 20

Moderator
MIKE BANGS – GEORGE STRAIT AEROSMITH, ERIC CLAPTON, KATY PERRY, TOM PETTY, LYNYRD SKYNYRD

Mike Bangs 20+ year career includes experiences as a monitor engineer and production manager for A-list acts including Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, George Strait, Katy Perry, Tom Petty, Kid Rock, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. An early advocate of live digital mixing, Bangs assisted a multitude of others in making the transition from analog in the early 2000s. A pioneer in surfaceless mixing that naturally gravitated to Allen & Heath, he built a close relationship with the manufacturer and ultimately joined the company to provide support to those on the road using dLive mixing systems.

Panelists
JERRY LOPEZ – EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS, CHICANO BATMAN, THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Named one the best LA-area live sound engineers by LA Weekly, Jerry Lopez mixes it up between running his own production company (Jerry Rig Audio) and engineering for some of the top acts in the world. Over the last 25 years he has mixed and supported a diverse range of acts like Run The Jewels, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Chicano Batman, and The Neighbourhood.
KARRIE KEYES – PEARL JAM, EDDIE VEDDER, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SONIC YOUTH

Hailing from Los Angeles, Karrie has spent the last 29 plus years as the monitor engineer for Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder. Karrie started out doing sound for punk bands in Los Angeles in 1986 under the tutelage of Dave Rat of Rat Sound, where she spent twenty years helping to establish the company. She was able to gain an immense amount of hands-on experience and technical knowledge at Rat, which eventually led to her becoming the monitor engineer for The Red Hot Chili Peppers from 1990-2000. She first met and started working with Pearl Jam who opened for RHCP on their 1991-1992 Blood Sugar Sex Magic Tour. She has worked with Sonic Youth, Fugazi, and Neil Young.

JIM YAKABUSKI – VAN HALEN, AVRIL LAVIGNE, MATCHBOX TWENTY

With nearly 40 years as a professional sound reinforcement engineer, Jim started out mixing as club bands in western Canada in the early 1980s. He soon transitioned to a role as a concert staff engineer at dB Sound and the rest is history. Even with a packed schedule of writing pro audio books, penning articles for top industry magazines, mixing Peter Frampton, Journey, Avril Lavigne, Van Halen, Gwen Stefani, Matchbox 20 and basically any huge name band you can think of — Jim always has time to talk about the latest mix techniques, the coolest gear and fun audio tips and tricks.
DANA WACHS – MGMT, ST. VINCENT, M.I.A
A Brooklyn based Audio Engineer, Tour Manager, and Composer/Musician. Dana started her career in music in 1994, as bass player for the Dischord band Holy Rollers, which ignited her interest in live sound, after a national tour supporting 7 Year Bitch. Her first foray into the practice of live sound began after that at the Black Cat DC, and later the infamous 9:30 club.
Dana’s first national tour was as TM/FOH for Peaches supporting Queens of the Stone Age in 2002. Her first International tour quickly followed in 2003 with Cat Power. Since then, touring has kept her on the road 9 to 11 months out of the year with bands such as MGMT, St. Vincent, M.I.A., Grizzly Bear, Foster the People, Nils Frahm, Deerhunter, and Jon Hopkins to name a few.
Outside of touring, Dana composes and performs under the name Vorhees, with two releases on Styles Upon Styles (Brooklyn), and is currently composing her first feature film score.
SALIM AKRAM – BAD RABBITS, BILLIE EILISH

A multitalented and diverse musician, songwriter and engineer, Salim Akram is currently mixing monitors for pop superstar Billie Eilish (2020 Grammy Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year winner). When he isn’t behind an Allen & Heath dLive mixing console on sold-out global tour dates, he can be heard playing guitar at festivals and on tour with bands such as the post-R & B futuristic funk-punk group Bad Rabbits.

Webinar Part One
We will discuss
Institutionalized sexism and racism
How unconscious bias affects who is hired
Each of our panelists will share their experiences and insights on how we can move towards an inclusive industry where people are judged and hired on their skills vs. gender and race.
Questions and Answers
Webinar Part Two
We will discuss double standards, toxic masculinity, and creating a safe work environment for all.
We will be providing resources and checklists unconscious bias and sexism and racism.
Steps you can take personally take to be an ally.
Creating a safe work environment for all
Questions and Answers

Adamson Applied Certification (2 Day) Lüneburg, Germany
2020-08-12 - 2020-08-13
Adamson will be holding the 2 Day Applied Certification program in partnership with Cobra Sound & Light, Lüneburg, Germany August 12th & 13th
Applied Certification is designed to instill the basic framework needed to properly design, deploy and control an Adamson loudspeaker system with a focus on Blueprint AV™ E-Series and S-Series.
Over 2 days, attendees will have the opportunity to learn fundamental skills, as well as tips and tricks to deploy an Adamson System and gain an understanding on the technology that provides the backbone for these systems.
This course will be conducted in German!
Topics covered will include:

Product overview
Venue measurement
System design
System preparation
System deployment
Tuning and alignment

Get a head start with the pre-training material including the Education Series Videos, User Handbooks and sign up for a copy of Blueprint AV™
For more information and to sign up contact education.emea@adamsonsystems.com

Anti Racism Discussion Group – August 9th at NOON PST
2020-08-09 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Anti Racism Discussion Group
Several of our members have asked that we start a discussion group on Anti-Racism Work.
We are forming a monthly discussion group, where we will study on our own a video, essay, book, etc. and then meet to discuss what we have learned and how we can apply it to creating a more inclusive industry.
For our first discussion we will watch
Ibram X. Kendi’s Lecture on How to be an Antiracist, at UC Berkeley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxa43H8m034
We will discuss key questions from the How to Be an Anti-Racist Book Club
And explore and share our experiences within the industry.
If you want to read the book we encourage you to do so. You can order How to Be An Anti Racist directly from the publisher here or from your favorite Independent Bookseller. Consider ordering books from a black-owned bookstore find one here.
This discussion group will be in a safe space and we are working on rules to keep all members safe. We will be sending these out with the Zoom Link.
August 9th at NOON-2 PM PST – 3 to 5 PM EST.
This discussion is planned for 2 hours.
Register here

Why Anti-Racist work?
Using an anti-racist intersectional frame
An anti-racist intersectional frame recognizes all the different ways people and communities experience racism with respect to their identities. An anti-racist frame also recognizes that racism both in the United States & abroad is grounded in and motivated by anti-Black racism. Therefore, an anti-racist intersectional frame provides a conceptual tool to examine institutional and systemic oppression that Black, Indigenous & People of Colour (BIPOC) face because of both their race and identities while providing a guiding approach for working with and in communities and systems to create a more just and equitable society.
How does anti-racist work intersect with sexism and misogyny in the music industry? Intersectional theory asserts that people are often disadvantaged by multiple sources of oppression: their race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and other identity markers.
An anti-racist intersectional frame is an action-orientated frame. It critiques society’s structure and its treatment of people and communities while providing a guiding approach for how to work towards a more just and equitable society.

Definitions
Central to using a frame is developing a shared language. The following breaks down individual concepts as a means to better understand what an anti-racist intersectional frame entails.
Anti-racism is the active process of identifying and challenging racism, by changing systems, organizational structures, policies and practices, and attitudes to redistribute power in an equitable manner.
Anti-Black Racism is any attitude, behavior, practice, or policy that explicitly or implicitly reflects the belief that Black people are inferior to another racial group. Anti-Black racism is reflected in interpersonal, institutional, and systemic levels of racism and is a function of white supremacy
A racist idea is any concept that regards one racial group as inferior or superior to another racial group in any way.
Intersectionality is a concept and frame coined by Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, to describe the ways in which race, class, gender, and other aspects of our identity “intersect” overlap and interact with one another, informing the way in which individuals simultaneously experience oppression and privilege in their daily lives interpersonally and systemically. Intersectionality promotes the idea that aspects of our identity do not work in a silo. Intersectionality, then, provides a basis for understanding how these individual identity markers work with one another.

Resources on Anti-Racist Work and Intersectionality
HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Kimberlé Crenshaw: What is Intersectionality?
Intersectionality Matters: A Conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw
SoundGirls Anti-Racist Resources

Strategies for a Successful Career in Touring
2020-08-05 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Join us for a lively discussion between a gathering of A-List touring pros as they share their stories and strategies for success and longevity in the business of concert touring.
… and guess what? They’re all women!
We will discuss
The Reality of the Job – Paying your Dues – Mastering Your Craft -What Technical Skills are a Must – How Production Crews are Staffed -What Production Managers are looking for – How to get your first tour and your next one – Being a Versatile Tech – Your Skill Set- Defining your job expertise – From A-List to Back in the Van.
August 5th at 3 PM Pacific Time.
Register Here
Moderated by Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato and Karrie Keyes
Michelle began working in live sound in the late 1980s, a time when there were very few women in the field. Her professional touring career started a few years later when she was hired to mix FOH for the band Spin Doctors. Since then, Michelle has traveled the world mixing FOH for some of the most recognizable names in music including Indigo Girls, Jewel, Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson, Melissa Etheridge, Goo Goo Dolls, Styx and many more. In 2015 Michelle was inducted in Full Sail University’s Hall of Fame and in 2019 Michelle created and launched Mixing Music Live an online video course for live sound and mixing. She is an active mentor and coach to those seeking a career in Live Sound and Music Production and has been a frequent speaker on industry and university panels and conferences. Michelle is Co-Founder of soundgirls.org and she continues to be a full time touring sound engineer, most recently on tour mixing Elvis Costello up until the current pandemic.
Karrie has spent the last 30 years as the monitor engineer for Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder. Karrie started out doing sound for punk bands in Los Angeles in 1986 under the tutelage of Dave Rat of Rat Sound, where she spent twenty years helping to establish the company. She was able to gain an immense amount of hands-on experience and technical knowledge at Rat, which eventually led to her becoming the monitor engineer for The Red Hot Chili Peppers from 1990-2000. She first met and started working with Pearl Jam who opened for RHCP on their 1991-1992 Blood Sugar Sex Magic Tour. She has worked with Sonic Youth, Fugazi, and Neil Young. Karrie is a Co-Founder of SoundGirls
Panelists Include
Becky Pell is a monitor engineer with 25 years’ experience in the live music industry. Originally from the UK, Becky now lives in Australia. Her mixing credits include Westlife, A-ha, Anastacia, Take That, Il Divo, The War of the Worlds, Muse, Kylie Minogue, Bill Wyman, James Brown, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Brightman, and Natalie Imbruglia. She is regularly in charge of monitors at the world’s largest festival, Glastonbury, and writes a monthly column for Live Sound International. Becky is also a qualified coach and Yoga Therapist, and between tours, she runs yoga retreats in beautiful locations around the world and coaches clients on Zoom.
Christina Moon has been working in audio for over twenty years. Primarily known as a touring monitor engineer, but has had her hands in a little bit of everything in order to get her foot in the door. Christina works with Sleater Kinney, Beach House, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Death Cab For Cutie and Interpol.
Claudia Englehart has been a professional live-sound engineer for 38 years. In 1982 she began her career working in the historic San Francisco jazz club Keystone Korner. In 1983 she moved to New York City and continued mixing live sound in clubs such as CBGB’s, The Bitter End, and S.O.B.’s, and then in 1985 began touring full time as a front of house engineer. Since 1989 Claudia has been working full time as sound engineer and tour manager for guitarist Bill Frisell. She has recorded two live albums for Frisell, “East/West” and “Bill Frisell Live”. She has also mixed and recorded just about all of his live concerts over the past 30 years, which has resulted in a Live Download Series, concert recordings available for download on Frisell’s website. When not on tour with Frisell Claudia has toured extensively with many other renowned artists, including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Ron Carter, Michael Brecker, Grover Washington Jr., Dave Holland, John Scofield, Charles Lloyd, Lee Konitz, Marianne Faithfull, Rosanne Cash, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Medeski Martin & Wood, John Zorn, The Kronos Quartet, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colon, and many others.
Marguerite Nguyen started her career interning with a local rock station and promoter. Working as a promoter, she realized there were not many women tour managers and decided that that was the path she would follow. She got her first gig on the road with the Indigo Girls working under Matt Miley. From there she moved to Los Angeles and has gone on to work with Coldplay, Janet Jackson, My Chemical Romance and more.
Melissa Britton started mixing live sound in a classic rock biker bar in Golden, CO. Shortly after, she started working for a sound company that opened the door to venues all over Colorado like Red Rocks amphitheater, Fiddler’s Green, Mile High Stadium and most smaller theatre’s in Denver. After several years with the company, she was picked up by Dave Koz who she still works with today. Koz also exposed Melissa to other Jazz, Blues, Pop, and Funk artists (Al Jarreau, David Sanborn, Tower of Power, Keb Mo, Sheila E., James Ingram, and Boney James) that expanded her career.
Working in a smaller market is intimate, personable, and constantly shifting gears. You wear a lotta different hats to get the job done. A positive attitude and a strong work ethic go a long way. It’s kept Melissa busy the past 25 years and taken her all over the world.
Tana Douglas is acknowledged as rock’n’roll’s first female roadie. Her journey started at the age of fifteen, in 1973 in Australia within a year she was working for AC/DC, first doing backline then F.O.H. Sound for the band. She then moved to lighting working for a Major Australian Promoter and completed in quick succession several tours with International acts such as Santana, Suzi Quatro, Neil Diamond, David Essex, and Leo Sayer and Status Quo all before she turned 18. Tana has worked in Audio, Lighting, Tour and Production Managing and Logistics.
Tana resides in Los Angeles, California, where she is currently participating in speaking engagements, mentorship programs to the next generation of Music Industry technicians and is writing her second book.

Breaking Norms: Moms in Audio and The Music Industry
2020-08-01 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Join us for a webinar on breaking the myth of “You Can’t Be a Mom in The Music Industry”
Saturday, August 1 at 11 am PST
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In this webinar, you will meet several women working within the industry and are at different stages of their careers and parenting. They will share with us wow they are navigating parenthood and their careers.
Moderated by Karrie Keyes – Monitor Engineer Pearl Jam/Eddie Vedder, Executive Director SoundGirls and single mom to twin daughters that are now 24. Her girls started life on the road in utero.
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Erika Earl – Audio Experience Engineer / Hardware Developer
Erika is working on the new frontier of spatial, immersive and interactive ambisonic audio. After working as Director of Hardware Engineering for Slate Companies and Head of Technology / Chief Tech for the Village Recording Studios, Erika co-founded Earl Virtual Innovation Lab, or Evil Tech, and XR Creative to work with artists and engineers on the next generation of audio tech and experience design. When she’s not wielding a soldering iron, recording, or immersed in a VR headset, you will most likely find her spending time with her 14 year old Daughter and 6 year old son writing songs and volunteering in her community.
Leslie Gaston-Bird (AMPS, M.P.S.E.) is author of the book “Women in Audio”, part of the AES Presents series and published by Focal Press (Routledge). She is a voting member of the Recording Academy and a freelance re-recording mixer and sound editor. She was a tenured Associate Professor of Recording Arts at the University of Colorado Denver and Fulbright Scholar; prior to that she worked as a sound editor for Post Modern Company, Colorado Public Radio, and National Public Radio. She is on the advisory board for SoundGirls. Leslie is the proud mother of a 10-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter.
Kille Knobel has been the LD for Pearl Jam for 20 years and has toured with Cher, Bette Midler, Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, The Smashing Pumpkins and many others. When she is not on the road, she works on The Jimmy Kimmel Show and wrangles her three sons- 15, 12, & 11.
Karen Loria is the Operations Manager for Pearl Jam. She started her career in the music business working for Righteous Babe Records while pursuing a graduate degree in photography at the University of Buffalo in NY. She moved to Seattle and started working with local music venues in various positions supporting live shows. In 2006 she was drafted to the PJ organization and has spent the last 14 years supporting the band both on the road and in the band’s HQ as the bands Ticketing Program Manager, Tour Photographer, Fan Club Co-manager and now the Operations Manager. Karen is a mother of 2 little boys, 5 and 3 years old, and holds a Board Position for Keep Music Live, a nonprofit aimed at assisting Washington State independent music venues impacted by the Covid-19 closures.
Jeanne Montalvo is a Grammy-nominated audio engineer and radio producer. She was selected amongst thousands of applicants as the 2018 EQL resident at Spotify Studios and Electric Lady Studios in New York City, assisting in the recording process for artists like John Legend, Alessia Cara, and many more. She also recorded sessions with Ivy Queen, Making Movies and Ruben Blades, Flor de Toloache, and Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra. In 2017, she was nominated for a Grammy Award as Mastering Engineer for Vladimir Horowitz: The Unreleased Live Recordings, and her recording of Multiverse by Bobby Sanabria’s Latin Jazz Big Band was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album at the 2012 Grammy Awards. She’s worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Tanglewood Music Festival, and worked on live recordings with Spike Lee and Al Kooper. She broke into radio after receiving her Masters in Music Technology from New York University, working as an audio engineer and producer for National Public Radio and the Duolingo Podcast. She is also the creator of “Live from Latino USA” a live and (mostly) unplugged video series that features Latinx talent from Jessie Reyez to Jose Feliciano. She is currently the treasurer of the Audio Engineering Society New York Section. She is the mom of a 2 1/2-year-old toddler.
Tina Morris started her career in music as a guitar and Music Production/Engineering student at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Immediately after college she started her professional career at Sound Techniques giving her a head start as an engineer and studio tech and working with some of the best in the business. After years of gigging with her band as a heavy metal guitarist, working as a freelance engineer for NPR, Q Division Studios and The Blue Man Group she decided to move to LA with her husband. After moving she landed the position of head evening tech for The Village Studios. Continuing to impress employers and clients alike with her expertise, Tina’s hard work was rewarded with a promotion to her current position as Studio Manager of The Village. Now the proud mother of her son Jackson, age 10, Tina still manages to balance her role of manager and mom.
April Tucker (CAS) April has worked in Los Angeles for 15 years in post-production sound for films, television, new media, and marketing/advertising. She has performed nearly every role in the process from the bottom up; she started as a PA at a studio and worked her way up to re-recording mixer – doing everything from Foley, ADR and sound editing along the way. She is mom to a 3 year old boy.

Society tells us that being a mom means putting your dreams on hold. If you are working in audio, tour production, or the music industry you are told you simply can’t be a mom because of the long and sporadic work hours, travel, and simply being on tour for several weeks/ months each year.
It’s easy to fall into that belief and give up on our dreams because that’s what society tells us. Society also tells us this only applies to women, no one in the industry cares if our male counterparts are dads.
What we are not told is that it can be done, it might take a village, but it always has. How much better you will be as a mother who is following her passion. That it is possible to be working in a field you love and also a mother. It isn’t easy, but it is certainly possible – just look at your own career path, which certainly was not easy.

El sonido y sus profesiones aplicadas - July 23
2020-07-23 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
El sonido y sus profesiones aplicadas:
Conoce desde la experiencia de profesionales de que tratan algunas especialidades en mundo del audio.
Este jueves 23 de julio, tendremos la tercera sesión de esta serie de charlas: Sonido en Estudios de grabación, estaremos conversando con las profesionales:
Nilda Vechiatti, se dedica a la Investigación, docencia y asesoramiento en temas de Ingeniería Acústica. Egresada de la facultad de ingeniería de la Universidad Nacional de la Plata en Ing. De telecomunicaciones con especialización en Acústica, ha realizado numerosos proyectos de investigación en el área y es la actual Presidenta de la Federación Iberoamericana de Acústica y Presidenta de la Asociación de Acústicos Argentinos.
Florencia Saravia: Desde el 1994 en el mercado de audio brasilero, Florencia comenzó su carrera en Río de Janeiro. Fue una de las pioneras en edición digital en Brasil. Dió clases de ProTools y Grabación en IATEC, en el Curso de Producción Fonográfica en Río Música y en el curso de Producción Fonográfica en la Universidad Estácio de Sá. Tiene varios artículos publicados en la prensa especializada nacional. Trabajó como segunda ingeniera de mastering en Classic Master, de 2005 a 2009. Trabaja en sonido en vivo para Gal Costa, Chico César, Luiza Possi, Filipe Catto y para varios artistas independientes. Fue ingeniera responsable del proyecto “Escuta como Minas”, de Spotify Brasil, en 2019.
Salomé Limón, Productora e ingeniera de sonido, presidenta de PIAudio (Asociación Iberoamericana de Productoras e Ingenieras de Audio) y miembro activo de la Grammy Academy, la Latin Grammy Academy y del CPI (Circulo de Productores e Ingenieros) de los Latin Grammy.
Comenzó su carrera en el Madrid en 2004. Su primer proyecto fue el disco de Andrés Calamaro “ El cantante”. También ha trabajado con artistas de la talla de Paco de Lucía, Anoushka Shankar, Chick Corea, John Legend, Vampire Weekend, Enrique y Estrella Morente, entre otros muchos.
Ganadora de 4 Latin Grammys y nominada como mejor ingeniero de sonido 5 años consecutivos por la Academia de los Latin Grammy.
A día de hoy Salomé continúa su carrera como productora, ingeniera y compositora a la vez que colabora como ponente y profesora compartiendo sus conocimientos a través de diversas charlas y masterclass en Berklee College of Music, Maxsine School en China, IE University, Fest Portugal, etc.
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Carolina Anton, es Ingeniera de Sonido – Sistemas/FOH y Mon. con más de quince años de experiencia, ha colaborado con artistas y producciones distinguidos en más de veinte tours a nivel nacional e internacional; Ha mezclado para artistas como Kool & The Gang, Gloria Gaynor, Natalia Lafourcade, Mon Laferte y León Larregui, ademas trabaja para compañías como 2hands production services y Eight Day Sound. Actualmente se encuentra realizando mezclas en formatos de sonido inmersivo.
Carolina es cofundadora de la empresa 3BH, que desarrolla proyectos de integración tecnológica para estudios de post-producción y música en México y Latinoamérica y a partir del 2016 comenzó a representar a la organización Soundgirls.org en México, apoyando a las mujeres a profesionalizarse en la industria del espectáculo.
Andrea Arenas, graduada en Ingeniería electrónica, con estudios de música y percusionista, es ingeniero de sonido con 14 años de experiencia. Trabaja para Cirque du Soleil en el show Totem y cuenta con experiencia en sonido en vivo, grabación y producción musical en estudios, también grabación y producción musical de orquestas sinfónicas de El Sistema. Su experiencia profesional va desde trabajos en producciones discográficas de la Deutsche Grammophon con Gustavo Dudamel, como también soporte técnico de consolas Digico y otras reconocidas marcas en Hermes Music para bandas como Maná, Vicente Fernández, Ricky Martin; ha participado como voluntaria de audio para soundgirls en eventos como el She Rocks Awards, Girlschool y preparación de gira de Pearl Jam. Ha sido técnico de sonido en varios shows del Cirque du Soleil. (At sea, Luzia, Amaluna y Totem)

Once You Have the Gig – What Makes You Stand Out
2020-07-20 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Once You Have the Gig Round 2
How to stand out once you get the gig, how to get promoted, etiquette for freelancers, how scheduling works.

If you missed our first webinar “What Makes You Stand Out” you can view it here

Moderated by April Tucker, a Los Angeles-based re-recording mixer and sound editor who works in television, film, and new media. She holds both a Master’s Degree and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music/Sound Recording. April enjoys doing educational outreach such as writing for industry blogs, giving lectures and presentations. www.proaudiogirl.com
Panelists:
Tina Morris, Studio Manager, The Village Studios (Los Angeles)
Catherine Vericolli, Owner/Manager/Engineer, Fivethirteen (Tempe, Arizona)
Meegan Holmes, Global Sales, 8th Day Sound (Los Angeles)

July 20
4-6 PM PST
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This webinar is limited to 100 people. It will also be live on Facebook and it will be recorded and posted on the SoundGirls website.

Career Paths in the Vinyl Industry – July 18 Webinar
2020-07-18 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
oin SoundGirls and Women in Vinyl to explore career paths in the Vinyl Industry.
July 18 at 12 PM PST/3 PM EST
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Panelist Include
Jenn D’Eugenio – Founder, Women in Vinyl | Chief of Sales, Furnace (Alexandria, VA)
The sales manager at Furnace Record Pressing, and vinyl enthusiast for over 20 years, Jenn is the founder and curator of ‘Women In Vinyl’; and is dedicated to the art and creation of vinyl. Her background spans that of designing textiles for Fortune 500 fashion companies to career advising for one of the top art colleges in the country; however, Jenn’s passion for vinyl has lead her to a career in helping to manufacture the physical product for bands, and both major to independent record labels. In launching Women in Vinyl a site, online community, and future non-profit she hopes to empower women working in the vinyl industry and to help young women who may be interested in this career path achieve their goals.

Jett Galindo – Mastering Engineer, The Bakery (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles-based mastering engineer and vinyl cutter, Jett Galindo of The Bakery, has worked on albums spanning a wide array of genres and artists (Barbra Streisand, Haley Reinhart, Weezer, the La La Land OST, to name a few). Jett Galindo carries on the legacy left behind by her late mentor, mastering legend Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab). Recipient of Summa Cum Laude honors and the 2012 Robin Coxe-Yeldham Audio Scholar Award from Berklee College of Music, Jett Galindo was mentored by luminaries in the music industry including George Massenburg; producer Prince Charles Alexander; recording engineer Susan Rogers (Prince’s Purple Rain); and mastering engineer and AES President-elect, Jonathan Wyner. Jett kickstarted her post-Berklee engineering career in the world-renowned Avatar Studios in New York (now known as Power Station) as the recording engineer for producer Jerry Barnes. As Barnes’ engineer, Jett engineered for veteran artists such as legendary singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, Nile Rodgers, Bashiri among others.

Brittany Benton – Record Store Owner + DJ, Brittany’s Record Shop (Cleveland, OH)
Producer and DJ as DJ Red-I as well as the owner of Brittany’s Record Shop; Brittany is an independent record store owner specializing in hip-hop, reggae and soul out of Cleveland, Ohio.

Amanda McCabe – Former Archivist, The Association for Recorded Sound Collections | Metadata, Strategy & Tactics, Universal Music Group (Seattle, WA)
Amanda is a record junkie, music history archivist who continues to find new ways of contributing to the music industry’s changing landscape. Her work’s core mission is always focused on connecting fans with more music and getting artists paid. She is the Archives Committee Chair & Video Editor for the Association For Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) and recently joined Universal Music Group’s Strategy & Tactics Team to focus on new products.

Lenise Bent – Producer & Recording Engineer (Los Angeles, CA)
Lenise is a groundbreaking recording engineer, known for her work on many iconic records including “Aja” by Steely Dan, “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp and “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac. She was also the first woman to receive a platinum album for engineering on Blondie’s AutoAmerican. Since then, Lenise has moved into post-production audio, beginning with the entire Disney cartoon catalog, eventually specializing in recording and editing Foley. She has also traveled the world for Dreamworks supervising and producing the foreign dialogue and vocals for “Shrek,” “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” and “Shrek 2”. This rekindled her love of recording music, and she is now engineering and producing up and coming musicians as well as seasoned artists. Currently, one of her projects, a blues/rock band called the Primal Kings, is all-analog, recording and mixing to tape and cutting vinyl.
Robyn Raymond – Lacquer Cutter, Red Spade Records | former QA Engineer, Precision Record Pressing (Ontario, Canada)
Owner of Ontario based Red Spade Records, Robyn is the only female record cutter in Canada. She cuts short-run, lathe cut records on a desktop Vinyl Recorder T-560, apprentices on a VMS70 and formerly worked in the QA department at a Precision Record Pressing.

A Conversation about Sound Editing for the Mix Stage (webinar)
2020-07-07 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Join Sherry Klein, Scott Weber and Marla McGuire with Moderator Karol Urban
For a discussion of best practices on processing, editing, stereo vs 5.1, communication, and more for delivering to re-recording mixers on the dub stage
July 7, 11 am PST
Please register here
We will also stream this live to our Facebook Page and record it for our YouTube Channel
About our Moderator and Panelists

Sherry Klein and Scott Weber are a re-recording mixer team at Smart Post Sound in Burbank, CA. Shows mixed together include New Amsterdam, The Passage, Queen of the South, and Reverie.
Sherry was one of the first female television mixers in Los Angeles after being a recording engineer at Larrabee Studios in the late 70s. She mixes dialog and music.
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Scott is a two-time Emmy award winner (as one of the re-recording mixers on Westworld and Lost) and mixes FX and Foley.
Marla McGuire is a supervising sound editor who has worked on How To Get Away With Murder, Scandal, The Killing, and Seven Seconds.
Karol Urban is president of the Cinema Audio Society. Her recent re-recording mixer credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Single Parents, Project Blue Book, and Gentefied.
More about Karol Urban

The Importance of Branding and Social Media Webinar
2020-06-30 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Professionals who want to establish themselves as credible, reliable experts must first develop a strong personal brand. As with a corporate brand, starting your personal branding strategy requires a good, hard look at who you are — your core values, skills, and beliefs — and figuring out how to convey those elements consistently in your digital presence.
If you’re just embarking on your branding journey, you might not know where to begin. So join us for a webinar on The Importance of Branding and Social Media.

June 30
5 to 7 pm EST
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Moderated by Laura B. Whitmore a music marketer, singer/songwriter, event producer, and founder of the Women’s International Music Network and The She Rocks Awards. Laura is Vice President of Marketing for Positive Grid
Laura will be joined by
Dani Mari: Ethereal Vocalist, Producer & Visual Artist. Founder of Female Frequency, BrookLAdelphia & Cruel Beauty Productions and Vice President of GrindEthos Records. She provides management, guidance, social media and web support, booking, promotion, networking opportunities, and many other invaluable services to people in the music industry.
Sarah Martinico: Graduated from Berklee College of Music with a Bachelor’s in Music Production and Engineering. She started her professional career in Los Angeles in marketing at BMG where she founded and created the first-ever royalty-bearing stems for sale from a major publisher’s catalogue via Avid Pro Tools. She went on to work for Native Instruments developing sound packages and marketing content with clients. She then opened her own company in 2019 called SL Music & Marketing. She has worked for numerous Grammy-winning producers, songwriters, and artists from the pop, urban and Latin worlds in marketing, branding, music publishing, partnerships, management, and consulting.
Catharine Wood: is an established Los Angeles-based composer/producer & studio owner. She launched her versatile career engineering on high profile commercials – including the first Apple iPhone spot. As a mix/mastering engineer, she has delivered over 500 (both original & client) commercially released songs airing on many major networks. Her facility, Planetwood Studios, LLC specializes in production & composition services for the Film & TV Industries.

Handling Trauma – COVID-19 Webinar
2020-06-22 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
Handling Trauma – COVID-19 Webinar

SoundGirls Presents Handling Trauma Caused By COVID-19 Webinar
June 22 at 3:30 -5:00 PM EST
This Webinar will be recorded and streamed on Facebook Live. We encourage you to register for this and submit questions you have.
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The social, mental, and cultural impact of going through a global pandemic is also causing a psychological trauma pandemic. The stress and fear that have come from this pandemic, along with the global loss and isolation required to combat this are the perfect ingredients for psychological trauma and even Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
When the dust settles from this crisis, almost everyone will be impacted and many in the Live Event Industry are experiencing trauma due to the loss of employment, income, and loss of doing a job we love.
The good news is that there are a lot of therapists out there who are trained in trauma who can help.
Kaprece Stallings, MS is a Registered Mental Health Counselor and will be joining SoundGirls to offer tips, advice, and how to navigate through the trauma our industry is experiencing.
Kaprece Stallings, MS is a Registered Mental Health Counselor (psychotherapist), IMH 17304, in the state of Florida. She has a Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Palm Beach Atlantic University. She is a member of the American Counseling Association. Kaprece She specializes in trauma-informed therapy. She has worked with adults, teens, and children with physical, emotional, and sexual abuse issues along with first-responders with PTSD issues. She also has experience working with adults and teens with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, self-esteem issues, broken relationships, and spiritual issues. Kaprece is certified in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), and Trust-Based Relational Interventions (TBRI). She is also certified to assess temperament/personality through the Arno Profile System.

El sonido y sus profesiones aplicadas
2020-06-15 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
El sonido y sus profesiones aplicadas

El sonido y sus profesiones aplicadas:
Conoce desde la experiencia de profesionales de que tratan algunas especialidades en mundo del audio.
Este lunes 15 de junio, tendremos la primera sesión de esta serie de charlas: Sonido en Vivo, estaremos conversando con las profesionales:
Marina Bello, Técnica de sonido argentina, especializada en la operación de FOH y Monitores en shows en vivo desde 2002, a la vez que se desarrollo en el area de Producción Técnica para bandas y productoras de shows internacionales. Ha trabajado con artistas como Miranda!, Gustavo Cordera, Lisandro Aristimuño, Los Pericos, Julio Iglesias, BRMC, Amaia Montero, entre muchos otros.
Actualmente es la operadora de FOH de WOS, operadora de monitores de Ca7riel y Paco Amoroso & la ATR Banda, y jefa técnica del teatro Margarita Xirgu – Espacio UNTREF.
Ximena Montenegro, Técnico de sonido e ingeniera de audio, por mas de 15 años se ha dedicado al refuerzo sonoro, ya sea como asistente, técnico para sala o monitores de diferentes empresas. Ha mezclado para diversos artistas como : Marisela, Lucero, Erick barrios, Denise Rosenthal, entre otros ademas ha participado activamente en festivales como Viña del Mar.
Roberta Siviero, Con 20 años de experiencia de sonido en vivo, comenzó su carrera en compañías de renta de audio, además cuenta con experiencia en sonido para TV, teatro y estudios de grabación, incluyendo postproducción en audiovisuales.
Roberta es Cofundadora del grupo de mujeres sonidistas “Mulheres do Áudio” en São Paulo que se formó en el año 2012 ayudando a visibilizar a las mujeres en la industria.

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Carolina Anton, es Ingeniera de Sonido – Sistemas/FOH y Mon con más de quince años de experiencia, ha colaborado con artistas y producciones distinguidos en más de veinte tours a nivel nacional e internacional; Ha mezclado para artistas como Kool & The Gang, Gloria Gaynor, Natalia Lafourcade, Mon Laferte y León Larregui, ademas trabaja para compañías como 2hands production services y Eight Day Sound. Actualmente ingeniera para MexFutura. Carolina es cofundadora de la empresa 3BH, que desarrolla proyectos de integración tecnológica para estudios de post-producción y música en México y Latinoamérica y a partir del 2016 comenzó a representar a la organización Soundgirls.org en México, apoyando a las mujeres a profesionalizarse en la industria del espectáculo.
Andrea Arenas, graduada en Ingeniería electrónica, con estudios de música y percusionista, es ingeniero de sonido con 14 años de experiencia. Trabaja para Cirque du Soleil en el show Totem y cuenta con experiencia en audio en vivo, grabación y producción musical en estudios, también grabación y producción musical de orquestas sinfónicas de El Sistema. Su experiencia profesional va desde trabajos en producciones discográficas de la Deutsche Grammophon con Gustavo Dudamel, como también soporte técnico de consolas Digico y otras reconocidas marcas en Hermes Music para bandas como Maná, Vicente Fernández, Ricky Martin; ha participado como voluntaria de audio para soundgirls en eventos como el She Rocks Awards, Girlschool y preparación de gira de Pearl Jam. Y ha sido técnico de sonido en varios shows del Cirque du Soleil. (At sea, Luzia, Amaluna y Totem)

Post-Production Surround Sound Webinar
2020-06-15 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
Post-Production Surround Sound Webinar

Mixing and Sound Design in Surround Sound with Ai-Ling Lee and Paula Fairfield
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June 15, 2020
11 am PST, 7 pm London
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Moderated by Leslie Gaston-Bird author of the book, “Women in Audio”, Governor-at-Large for the Audio Engineering Society, and Chair of the AES Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She is also a freelance re-recording mixer and sound editor, and owner of Mix Messiah Productions. She has a Heartland Emmy nomination for the film “Enough White Teacups”, directed by Michelle Carpenter.

Ai-Ling Lee was born in Singapore where she studied music audio engineering. After two years of mixing and editing commercials and music, she moved to Los Angeles in 1998 to pursue a career in sound design for feature films. Since then she has worked as a sound designer, re-recording mixer, and sound supervisor on a variety of films including Jojo Rabbit, La La Land, First Man, Deadpool, Wild, Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi) and Buena Vista Social Club. Ai-Ling has had the opportunity to work with directors Damien Chazelle, Taika Waititi, Jean-Mar Valée, Noah Hawly, Wess Ball, Cameron Crowe, Gus Van Sant, and Sam Raimi, to name a few.
Paula Fairfield is an International and Emmy award-winning sound designer for tv, film, commercials, and basically anything that makes noise. She has 10 Emmy nominations with two wins for her work on Game of Thrones, along with multiple wins and nominations for her work in both The US and Canada. During her career, she has had the privilege of working on tv projects such as the iconic “LOST” and visionary filmmakers like Robert Rodriguez, Brian DePalma, Paul McGuigan, and Darren Aronofsky.

Paying Yourself First - Webinar
2020-05-21 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online Webinar
SoundGirls Presents Paying Yourself First
Andrea Espinoza will be teaching us how to financially plan for your future.
Register here – May 21 at 3 PM PST.
This is a Zoom Webinar and it will be recorded and available online at a later date. It will also be Live on Facebook.
Topics Include:

The Importance of Emergency Funds
Short Term Goals
Retirement
The difference and benefits of taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-exempt accounts.
Q&A

Andrea Espinoza is an Audio Engineer turned Tour Manager. With a BFA in Sound Design & Engineering, Espinoza spent eight years working in touring audio before she diversified into roles that included automation, carpentry, and video. In lieu of recent events, she has been able to fully pivot to her own practice as a licensed financial educator and advisor, helping to set those that she comes into contact with on the path towards financial freedom – one conversation at a time.

What Makes You Stand Out? Webinar
2020-05-20 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online Webinar
What Makes You Stand Out?

When you’re getting started in the music industry (live sound and studio recording), what makes you stand out to a live sound company or a music studio ready to hire? We’ll discuss the types of jobs available, how to find out about jobs, resumes, good and bad ways to cold contact, and other ways to get a foot in the door. This webinar will discuss how business worked before the pandemic, how it might look after, and what you can be doing now to better be prepared.
Moderated by April Tucker, a Los Angeles-based re-recording mixer and sound editor who works in television, film, and new media. She holds both a Master’s Degree and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music/Sound Recording. April enjoys doing educational outreach such as writing for industry blogs, giving lectures and presentations. www.proaudiogirl.com
Panelists:
Tina Morris, Studio Manager, The Village Studios (Los Angeles)
Catherine Vericolli, Owner/Manager/Engineer, Fivethirteen (Tempe, Arizona)
Meegan Holmes, Global Sales, 8th Day Sound (Los Angeles)

May 20
4-6 PM PST
Register Here

This webinar is limited to 100 people. It will also be live on Facebook and it will be recorded and posted on the SoundGirls website.

Larry Crane Weekend Recording Workshop
2020-04-25 - 2020-04-26 | Jackpot! Recording, 2420 SE 50th Ave, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
Jackpot! Recording is proud to announce another Larry Crane Weekend Recording Workshop, April 25-26, 2020 in Portland, OR. Details HERE Drop a line if you are interested in attending! info@jackpotrecording.com
“Thanks for spending the time to work with us. I found it very valuable and I’ve already heard the difference in my mixes based on your lessons and feedback. I really enjoyed the whole thing.”
-2017 attendee
Get your mixing and tracking skills evaluated and improved with Larry Crane, a professional producer, engineer, mixer, studio owner, and Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee. Workshop is limited to 10 students and costs $400 for 2 days.

Adamson Advanced Certification (2 Day) Paris, France
2020-04-15 - 2020-04-16
Adamson will be holding a 2 Day Advanced Certification course in partnership with DV2 in Paris, France April 15th & 16th.
Advanced Certification is designed to expand the knowledge needed to properly design, deploy and control large and/or complex Adamson loudspeaker system, focusing on in-depth Blueprint AV™ techniques as well as streamlined work flow for E-Series and S-Series systems.
Over 2 days, attendees will have the opportunity to expand on their existing knowledge and experience to deploy an Adamson System and gain a deeper understanding of the technology that provides the backbone for these systems.
Topics covered will include:

Product overview
Venue measurement
System design
System preparation
System deployment
Tuning and alignment

Attendees interested in taking this course must have completed Applied Certification as a pre-requisite.
Get a head start with the pre-training material including the Education Series Videos, User Handbooks and sign up for a copy of Blueprint AV™
For more information and to sign up contact education.emea@adamsonsystems.com

Portland SoundGirls April Social
2020-04-13 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Jackpot! Recording, 2420 SE 50th Ave, Portland, OR, 97206, United States
Larry Crane welcomes SoundGirls to Jackpot Recording Studio
Join us for our April Social and discuss upcoming workshops!
April 13th 2020
6pm-9pm
BYOB (if you’d like)
Jackpot Recording Studio
2420 SE 50th Ave
Portland, OR 97206

Women Setting The Tone - Austria
2020-03-26

SoundGirls Atlanta Chapter Social
2020-03-24 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tin Lizzy’s Cantina, 415 Memorial Dr SE, Atlanta, GA, 30312, United States
Please Join Our SoundGirls Atlanta Chapter for the March Social and Meeting for March. We hope to see you there.
Date: Tuesday March 24, 2020
Location: Tin Lizzy’s 415 Memorial Dr SE, Atlanta, GA 30312
Time: 6pm-9pm

Wireless Audio Basics for Technicians - Alberta
2020-03-24 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wireless Audio Basics for Technicians (by James Bundy)
Wireless audio technology often seems like a great solution – but what do you do when you’re getting signal dropouts or weird sounds? This course will help you understand what to buy, how to set it up properly, and how to coordinate everything so it works together.
Topics include:

RF Basics – what is RF?

RF Spectrum – VHF, UHF, Wifi, and more

Setup and optimization

Coordinating RF for yourself and others

11AM-3:00PM Tue, Mar 24th
Sea Change Brewing Co.
9850 62 ave, Edmonton, Alberta T6E0E3
Registration required in advance HERE. Food and beverages available to purchase on site.

FREE SSL Live Certified Console Training - New York, NY
2020-03-24 - 2020-03-26
FREE SSL Live Certified Console Training, hosted at Solid State Logic New York, between March 25th – 26th, 2020.

These events are you opportunity to experience the superior sound quality and advanced workflow of SSL Live consoles.
Head over to www.solidstatelogic.com/events for full info and RSVP

Adamson Applied Certification (2 Day) Paris, France
2020-03-24 - 2020-03-25
Adamson will be holding the 2 Day Applied Certification course in partnership with DV2 in Paris, France. March 24th & 25th.
Applied Certification is designed to instill the basic framework needed to properly design, deploy and control an Adamson loudspeaker system with a focus on Blueprint AV™ E-Series and S-Series.
Over 2 days, attendees will have the opportunity to learn fundamental skills, as well as tips and tricks to deploy an Adamson System and gain an understanding on the technology that provides the backbone for these systems.
Topics covered will include:

Product overview
Venue measurement
System design
System preparation
System deployment
Tuning and alignment

Get a head start with the pre-training material including the Education Series Videos, User Handbooks and sign up for a copy of Blueprint AV™
For more information and to sign up contact education.emea@adamsonsystems.com
