Lessons
Class Introduction
05:46 2Power and Electricity
10:44 3Power Distribution
21:04 4Grounding and Ground Loops
12:11 5Powering Speakers
14:31 6Signal and Power Cables
14:46 7Patching, Snakes and IO
33:56 8Loudspeakers
30:44Lesson Info
Helpful Tools and Apps
Okay lastly what are some things that you can have in your tool kit to be successful front house engineer the easiest thing that you can get right now is an arty app any sort of frequency analyzing app on your phone there's free one I know there's even one that's much better that's that's multiple actives so it's much more specific that's five bucks it's worth the five dollars just google arta arte sound or frequency or f ft in the app store I'm sure you can find some great ones there's an app called f ft that I think it's ten dollars it's muchmore involved it actually has signal generator it has a frequency meter and spl meter all built in just with your camera phone or with your iphone so our android ah cable tester is super important this is great for tat line checking to you can plug microphone cable from the output and send a signal to test signal all of your lines you can also cable test to see if the cables are bad super helpful it tests all different types of cables gaff tape d...
efinitely have gaff tape on hand not duct tape it is the worst when you have someone that uses duct tape on microphone cable and they peel it off and there's this gooey mass left on the cable gaff tape is expensive but it's worth it it's very very strong it's easy to tear off parit of break off pieces and it doesn't leave a residue so definitely used gaff tape on spl meter is super important we're going to show a video here in just a second that shows how to use an spl meter it's very simple ah lot of outdoor venues especially have sound pressure limits and that you can actually get fined if you continually break sound pressure limit. So capital block party, for example, they have a ninety five d b limit for front of house, so you have to have that meter set up for a house to make sure you're staying underneath that level. It's it's your responsibility a sodding iron is always great if you have a cable that goes bad, you can quickly fix it I learned how to saw her connections it's really simple on dh then the last thing headphones obviously have a great pair of headphones that you trust and turnarounds don't you know what turnarounds our and adapters, but all the time you'll have a situation where you have to run a line back up to the stage for whatever reason and there's on ly xlr female on this side and excellent male on the other side turnarounds have you could make him a bunch. They're just a cable with two xlr males on both sides to excelaire females, and it reverses the reverses the female and male and of each connector so have, like three of each of those have trs texel are adapters have garcia teo quarter inch adapters, ipod cables, any sort of cables you can think of. I have a big plastic bin that's filled with sleeves that air just their specific for every type of turnaround that I take to every gig. So I always have a cable to turn something around if I need to. Yeah, and then a great pair of headphones. Ok, so we've got some questions I'm going watch this last section just on spl meters on how to use those in the difference between a weighted be waited in the sea weighted scale on, and then we'll answer questions cool, so a lot of outdoor festivals especially often have noise restrictions within the city limits. Um, and you have to be very careful about those, because if you don't actually follow them, you can end up with huge fines and you're responsible is the sound engineer. So for this festival is very clear ninety five d be a limit strictly enforced, we're going to use a weighted, so we're going to set the sound meter spl meter, too. We'll set it to ninety, so we can see everything above ninety. We're going to switch to a waiting, and what a waiting means is that it's compensating for the increased sound pressure response and low frequencies so you actually get away with a little more, um, dbs pl within a weighted scale, then it's, just a flat scale, which helps us get a little ladder ninety five it's. Pretty quiet. But depending on how concise the mixes, you can actually make it, make it still still pop pretty much especially with the mire melodies and the speakers that we're using. Cool. So yeah, have it spl meter. They're not that expensive. Make sure you have one, so you can use it.
Ratings and Reviews
Khalid Al Shaaily
I feel more confident in my live sound mixing abilities, thanks to your comprehensive and well-structured course. It was a pleasure to learn from someone so knowledgeable and passionate about their field. Once again, thank you for sharing your expertise, and I look forward to applying what I've learned in my future endeavors in live sound mixing
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A very good overview of live sound presented by a professional sound technician. Good supporting video of a real event that Zach worked. He explained everything very well and I enjoyed the split screen views of his console work. Good job.
Steve
Great class, really in depth. Opened my eyes to certain ways of using my console that i never thought of. The information in general was really good. I will be rewatching certain videos to really soak it all up
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