Recent content by Lisa Lane-Collins

I’m wondering what’s emerging as the industry standard for this? I work at a place with a few different techs and the same roster of bands coming through every month or so. On any given show night it’s a roll of the roster die what tech gets matched up with what band, the skill level of the...

Thank you for all the suggestions, I’ll try again next gig with some of these and some different mics. Sounds like it caaan be done!

Hello, I’ve been working with a Sufi band and the tabla are a constant vexation. Does anyone have any tips or tricks for getting them over the rock band volume of the rest of the stage? Last show I used beta 57as on an almost horizontal angle (trying to reject the foldback). It was stable ish...

Before I go back to the boss and tell him he’s dreaming I want to double check here, the maximum outputs that an M32 can support is 16 isn’t it? Whether you have one DL attached or two, you can’t expand it out to 32 outputs because the software doesn’t support it.

Awesome, thank you. Next mission, accumulate 1200w amps :-)

What amps would you use to drive 4 of these? I feel like I must be reading the specs wrong because it looks like their peak is 6000, which means maybe, 1200w min amp to drive just one? But that would be a fortune in amplifiers, so maybe the question is actually what’s the bare minimum you’d...

Has anyone encountered this? How did you fix it? Screeching sound intensifies when the musicians are directly in front of the screen and diminishes as they move away. They always set up directly in front.

All is most excellent help, thank you :-) I learned yesterday that the two musicians in this band that complained are notorious for complaining after the fact. Still, for everyone else who’s capable of communicating what they need I want to lay the most stable foundation possible!

In answer to why didn’t I ask? We did a looooong sound check at the end of which everyone claimed to be happy. There was a point where all the requests were piled on me in quick succession and the foh engineer came down and took over the monitor mix (to pull the in ear mix he said but then he...

I have two questions really. Question one, when you're preparing for a touring band to come in and sound check what are the things you do to prep the space before they arrive as a matter of course? Bonus second part for this, what do you do to prepare for in ear mixes? Question two, how do...

Schengen work permit sounds like a valuable acquisition. Any idea what events and or companies might be good to cold canvas for work once I have it? I do know a couple of US techs (from this forum in fact, yay for online global connectivity), you've reminded me I haven't followed up on those...

For venues small enough that you're fighting the sound from stage, if you can balance the bass with the ear bleeding cymbals you'll create the illusion of the the mix being balanced without having to push out more mid range and treble content (vocals sitting bang up there with them though of...

Dreaming the dream. (No luck turning up additional work opportunities yet but I think I'm just not looking in the right places).

I’m itching to do a working holiday where the work is production related (I want to see how you all do it in other parts of the world, especially music festivals!!!) Now that we’re starting to inch out of covid (and I have 15 years of experience under my belt instead of being green) I think it...

In this instance we two techs felt the responsibility landed squarely on us due to an absence of step 2 and step 3, we wouldn’t have asked the client to take the hit (not our client, we’re contracted in by the hire company to op), but the client was super helpful anyway. The mic since turned...