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| Name | #1 Audio Tip for Small Venues — The Production Academy |
| Video Uploader | Video From The Production Academy |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 09-04-2020 15:15:04 |
| Video Discription | This great audio tip came up during my weekly webinar series, where I chat with other touring professionals about live music production during the 2020 work stoppage. To see the full webinar replay, visit https://www.theproductionacademy.com/pandemic-sessions Last week was a good one — I spoke with my friends CJ Blair and David Williams, who are both excellent FOH engineers. Since we all started our careers on small tours before working up to bigger shows, we decided to share mixing tips for various sizes of venues. Since the #1 best tip of the entire conversation is one that’s helped me out so many times, I decided to make this video. After all, it’s really important to understand some of the signal chain concepts I cover here, especially when talking about soft patching. I’ve seen many beginning engineers make bad mistakes by not fully grasping this! A soft patch means we’re changing the input source of a channel on a digital mixer. On an analog console, if you plug a microphone into input 1, it will always be controlled by channel 1. But on most digital consoles, you can tell any input to go to any channel. For example, if you want Channel 8 to use Input 4, or Channel 2 to use Input 16, that’s okay — as long as you understand where the patch is happening! I explain this more in the actual video, but a soft patch happens after the microphone preamp (mic pre). This is the circuit that takes a mic-level signal from the microphone, adds gain to that signal (controlled by the gain knob), and outputs a line-level signal which is used by the rest of the audio system. This essentially means each physical input to the console is going to have a corresponding mic pre that doesn’t change with a soft patch. So if you change the source on channel 2 from input 2 to input 1, the gain setting for that channel will also change! It’s just a good idea to fully understand how the signal chain works here. Ultimately, if you want to implement the trick I talk about in this video, it’s best to use an analog y-split. |
| Category | Music |
| Tags | The Production Academy | Production Academy | Live sound | Training | Sound | Audio | Audio School | audio classes | Sound Live | Sound school | Signal Chain | Troubleshooting audio | how do I fix an audio problem | how do I fix audio problems | Live Music | Live Music Production |
