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Monday, September 29, 2008

Acoustically Speaking

It must be a tough economy. I've taken on a third, unpaid, part-time job -- learning from the ground up how to mix sound live for bands. It's a great skill to have if you're a musician but one that takes a long time to learn and offers more ways to screw up than imaginable. Go to a show and think it sounds terrible. There's a good chance it was the band, but also it was a good chance it was the guy behind the mixing board. There are more knobs than people tent to realize and to do it well it takes a good scientific understanding of acoustics. I'm sure it's going to be fun, but also a great challenge. But I think I have a good teach and I'm ambitious with it, so hopefully it will do me good. Either way, I'd wager, one of the 7 or 8 of you that actually read my blog sometimes may see me mixing for some band at some point. Remember, If I'm working and the sound is bad ... it's the band and not me.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good luck with that. It's easier if you own a PA, so you can rent yourself and your gear, but that costs money up front. Do the bigger clubs have house engineers?

October 16, 2008 at 12:40 PM 
Blogger Justin Is said...

Yeah, most clubs have their own. Having your own and renting it out is a risky business just starting out -- like recording studios. Take a peak on craigslist in the musical instruments section and most days there are several people selling off studios and PA equipment cause they failed.

October 16, 2008 at 1:14 PM 

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