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Very good video, thanks!

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I like recording so much better than live audio, having done both in the past 5 years. I find the constant venue change a major hassle to deal with and hockey arenas are the worst, especially for intricate, fast metal. Running live sound is a job best left for those who love doing it. In such difficult venues, if your heart isn't in it 100%, the quality will suffer.

MADI her? I barely know her. LMAO!

I can see this would be a good way to set the gain structure during sound check. But for my case, in small clubs, I don't get a sound check that's all that useful because nothing is done gig volume. So I have to do the gain staging while performing. That's quite difficult and I suspect a lot of bands have similar experiences.

Wow! That was a very concise, very clear and excellent overview signal vocab. Excellent!

I'm learning studio mixing on my own and would like to eventually do live mixing for concerts and church. I didn't understand a lot of what you shared but I think it is all helpful information for my journey. Thank you; I subscribed.

Is aux sends how i would set up commentators to be able to hear each other but not the rest of the mix?

So I was taught to set gain prefader off? That the fader was just channel volume- but I have been getting terrible feedback ( monitors have been running off 3/4 aux - same mix as foh- seperate master volume- my Allen Heath was not as “ hot” as the Yamaha- seems I’m barely Turing up the faders and master to get to the appropriate volume level ( like 3). This seems awkward to me/ as other videos show gain settings with master and faders set to unity-I have never set my gain this method - but thinking it might be the way to go- hmmmm- confused

MADI seems much more stable and reliable. We had plenty of issues with Dante at my church for a while and when you have to freaking log in and jack around with routing parameters and the Dante network router just randomly says eff you, it seems needlessly complicated. MADI is point to point basically. No logging in. No passwords or accounts required. Just connect and configure routing and walk away. I do see the plus side of Dante it just requires so much work on the front end and you better have solid network connections.

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Hi, Great video. How does one physically wire the network so that you can have stagemix and cl3 editor work simultaneously?

Wouldn't be easier if protools, for instance, send midi events to light systems to trigger scenes?

As a visual learner, your diagrams really helped break it down for me. Thanks!

Do you have a few recommendations for mixers that allow for more than 1 subgroup? I would be great if such mixer had a feature like a few behringer, where you can Monitor individual subgroups in the control group without interfering the main mix.

My band is getting ready to do it's first public gig and we are using an Allen-Heath PA28 mixing console. First question has to do with keyboards. I have a Yamaha P225 digital piano with weighted/ velocity keys. The local volume control will effect the gain setting, along with how hard the keys are hit. Should I set the piano volume midway as a starting point and should I hit the keys hard when adjusting the mixer gain? Second question is which instrument do you start with first when setting gain? Should it be the drums then adjust all other instruments relative to them?

What if not using DI, MIC direct to Mixer. The distance about 10m from stage to mixer.

4:08 Definitely polarity, not phase! It's like AM vs FM, X vs Y, up vs right.

analog is always nice if you don’t need all the functionality of a digital desk! really glad you like the series, i’ll be making more soon!

Great series, guys! Loved them all. I don't have a digital desk but use a Mackie 24-8 buss for my home recording. If I was a sound engineer for a living I would go digital for sure. At home though...the analogue desk is an inspiration. I don't feel as attached to a digital console like I do the analogue desk. That A&H desk looks beautiful though...thanks for these tutorials 🙏🔥

These groups /aux busses...do they make the mix sound better than if you put Eqs effects individually per channel?

AVB is really miles away more solid than Dante. I use Dante for some time then switched to AVB..........end of history.

I'm trying to send the SEMPT signal (WAV FORMAT) from our backingtrack player (CYMATIC) it starts running but timecode stops after 5 secs...do you have any idea what it could be?

Hope one day there'll be an international standard protocol for parameter control like analog gain or 48V or phasing over Dante, making a mixer made by a brand natively compatible with a Dante stagebox made by another brand. Also I'm looking forward to see in the future that some DAWs and virtual rack softwares will have the ability to process Dante streams directly from and to the computer's Ethernet adapter without all the hassle of Dante<->ASIO conversion. If this can be achieved, there'll be a powerful rival against Waves Soundgrid.

Why do they say set your faders at 0 when gain staging

Slick video!

Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed the analogy of a neighborhood that assigns a IP to each house. I have such a hard time connecting my iPad to most Yamaha boards. I keep getting connection errors. I find it very frustrating as I use the same iPad and wireless router on all my gigs and with many different digital mixing consoles, (Midas, Behringer, Soundcraft, etc) and only the Yamaha boards have issues connecting.

Very helpful, thanks for the explanation.

So they intentionally use dBA to push the volume beyond healthy level and pretend that it's normal. A lot of people should be sued.

This video actually helped me get so much more out of my PA system. Awesome help!

MADI isn't necessarily limited to multi-track point-A to point-B signal routing. A MADI stage box can easily replicate its digital signals, eliminating the need for expensive and troublesome analog snake splitter cables. It can also support master/slave console priority, making it easy to use an on-stage monitor mixer on the same MADI router with a remote FOH console.

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The Production Academy rocks hard! Thank you much for all your videos. So much good info. Peace

Thank you, I appreciate the information. I had to stop halfway through for a rest from the background music.

Just beautifully explained! I got this cleared once and for all. Truly appreciate it.

Would it be useful to convert a headphone level signal to a Mic level signal? For example, you have a device which has no 'line-out' but you want to patch it into a desk. Or do I just need to lower the volume of the headphone signal at the source.

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This content is absolutely great! It is so difficult to find people working in the live music industry that offer concise information. Love it!

Dynamic range is hard to accomplish while broadcasting. Then getting the pastor's inflections across with the compression broadcast calls for.

Hi Scott, why did you removed all the recent videos from the Eras tour?, those had super valuable information!

I WONDER my dante multitrac recording is giving a lot of latency issues. as clip duration increases clip appears to be stretced. i am using 64 track recording via cl5 rio in daisy chain

Great videos Scott! You present your talent exclusively to the audience very precisely! I have setup a system where I have a full depth 16U Mobile rack with on its Front side, I have setup FOH with a dedicated Presonus 24R rack mixer and on the back side of it another Presunus 24R rack with multiple patches relaying the inputs to the FOH mixer as a separate clean signal for processing for the FOH. Of course both sides have the necessary Router, power conditioners, patch cables etc. setup. For the IEM side, I am using wireless IEMs for the band with the Phone app control for each mixes for each member(s) of the band. Everything is pretty much enclosed in that rack with a 4U Drawer where I carry the Microphones and some essential cables, body packs in that drawer. For the FOH side, I plan to use the mixing software provided by the mixing console on an iPad. It is so exciting to have that all done but I am not sure if this FOH/Monitor mix package could work well in practical situations. Since the band would have the flexibility to adjust their mixes using the mobile app on their phones, I feel like there is no need to expose the rack to either to the FOH or Monitor sides because I would be able to move around (and communicate with them) and with my iPad, I would be controlling the FOH ambiance and while on the same iPad (on a different IP), I am able to keep an eye on the Monitor (or IEM) side mixer as well. Do you have any practical experience of using them as a package like my explanation? Thanks.

Question, I was trained to put the fader at unity, then adjust the gain till the signal “fills the room.” But upon reading my user guide (an Allen & Heath Mix Wizard 16:2,) it tells me to do that with a headphone. I found your video trying to learn why. So why choose the headphones over the room? (When it comes to setting the initial gain coming into the mixer, assuming just a straight mic going into the channel.)

Great video! Do you use NDI Direct for your return audio feeds or some other audio IP protocol?

They can call it whatever they want to. But in a blind listening test ... You won't be able to tell a difference between different audio cables. Just wishful thinking - Moreover, nobody can explain what "unbalanced" supposedly sounds like. It has FAR more to do with speaker placement and room acoustics than cables.

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VERY well explained to the point and easy to understand, thanks Scott !

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