Chez is an independent sound engineer based out of Los Angeles that enjoys work surrounding FOH, including mixing, teching, and designing sound systems. She is currently touring with the artist, LP (iamLP.com) as her Tour Manager and FOH Engineer. (more…)
These positions are often called babysitting gigs, as in you are babysitting the FOH or Monitor Engineer. But every engineer knows how important it is to have a great tech and all have had experiences with less than helpful techs. (more…)
At one time, thought to be the stuff of myth or folklore, much like the Yeti or Bigfoot, stories and sightings of the elusive woman audio engineer are becoming more widespread. With the abundance of digital cameras and smartphones, there has actually been some credible evidence verifying that they do in fact exist. (more…)
By: Malle Kaas
My god, these months at Brit Row went by so fast. It just shows how fun and exciting the course has been. It is a bittersweet time having to say farewell to my talented and dedicated classmates and the awesome staff of instructors. Yet, it is exciting to start on this new adventure in live sound. I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog about my experiences at Brit Row. (more…)
By: Malle Kaas
Did the ten years I was away from the industry change me?
Well, of course, I have changed in the last ten years, things in my life also changed. I started working as a nurse, but becoming a nurse was not really a dream of mine. At the time though, I wanted a career that I could work anywhere and becoming a nurse filled that desire. (more…)
In his book, “A Sense of the Mysterious”, author Alan Lightman suggests that technology has grown burdensome despite its advances because we’ve reversed the human-tech roles – whereas innovation used to strive to create purposeful tools for serving mankind, it now creates robotic nanny-masters that give us instructions and objectives, and we, in turn, serve them. Now, there’s no doubt that we have and do things on a daily basis, from the terrific to the mundane, that have been gifted to us by science and computers and math that look more like hieroglyphics than actual numbers. (more…)
I have noticed that a lot of things have changed in the industry in the last twenty years. (more…)
Rachel Ryan has been working as an independent audio engineer for the last eleven years. She has worked as a FOH and TM for School of Seven Bells, Phosphorescent, Little Boots, Nightbox and Honeyblood. FOH for Albert Hammond JR, MNDR, Streets of Laredo, and as ME for Silversun Pickups, The Strokes, and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. She is currently doing monitors for The Strokes and FOH for PHOX. When she is not touring she works at the Brooklyn Bowl as both a FOH and Monitor Engineer. (more…)
Last night we successfully completed our first weekend at Austin City Limits Festival. If it was a competition it would be safe to say we won or at least made it into the postseason. (review of show) It was a great show, the weather was not brutally hot or cold and it did not turn into a mud-fest. Both the audience and band brought it. This show at this festival should be put in memory books. Except we get to come back next weekend and do it all over again. Should be a piece of cake right? (more…)