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• Discover Mixing and Recording Tips with Ken “Pooch” Van Druten

  How can you set your mixes apart from others? This re-occurring question is one I have battled with and know it’s one that you ask yourself every time you sit down behind a console. So of course this was central to my train of thought when I recently... Posted Feb 27 2013, 12:00 AM by Robert Scovill with Filed under: Live Sound, VENUE, Robert Scovill

• Are You Experienced? First show!

  It was rough going into it, but we finished the first show of the Experience Hendrix tour. I flew to this show in Bethesda, Maryland, straight from a two-week tour of Japan and Southeast Asia with Robert Randolph and the Family Band. The norm for this... Posted Dec 03 2012, 12:01 AM by Sean Quackenbush with Filed under: Live Sound, VENUE, Sean Quackenbush

• Got VENUE? Solve Church Mixing Challenges with VENUE Tech Notes

  Whether you’re mixing large vocal groups, faced with acoustically challenging spaces, or looking for timesaving solutions to tackle common mixing tasks, we’ve got answers. Check out our series of VENUE Tech Notes, designed to help house of... Posted Dec 03 2012, 12:00 AM by Derk Hagedorn with Filed under: Live Sound, VENUE

• Are You Experienced?

  Greetings from the 2012 Experience Hendrix tour. I’m Sean Quackenbush, the FOH and recording engineer, and this is my fifth EH tour. When not on the road with EH , I can usually be found with pedal steel guitar player Robert Randolph & the Family... Posted Aug 07 2012, 12:00 AM by Sean Quackenbush with Filed under: Live Sound, Sean Quackenbush

• Final Rush Rehearsals—Geddy Helps Fine-Tune His Own Sound

  Geddy Lee courtesy of Tina Davey. One of the greatest advantages of being able to listen back to tracks in preproduction is that you can do the listening with the client. When I started live engineering lo those many years ago, I would hand the artist—or... Posted Jul 11 2011, 12:00 AM by Brad Madix with Filed under: Live Sound, Guitar Solutions, Brad Madix

• 10 Seconds in the Time Machine

  Hey this is Brad again, wrapping up final rehearsals before heading out on Rush’s Time Machine tour. Today, I’d like to share a tip that helped me fine-tune parts of the band’s mix. Probably the most obvious use of Pro Tools in preproduction... Posted May 20 2011, 12:00 AM by Brad Madix with Filed under: Pro Tools, Live Sound, VENUE, Brad Madix

• Exploring Your Options with Virtual Soundcheck

  In this post, I’m going to discuss using Pro Tools playback with VENUE to audition plug-ins, presets, and mics you might want to use in your live mix. Preproduction before the tour is the perfect time for this. You’ve got multitracks of the... Posted May 05 2011, 01:00 AM by Brad Madix with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Live Sound, VENUE, Brad Madix

• First run-through for the RUSH Time Machine Tour

  Last post, I talked about setting up preproduction for Rush’s Time Machine tour and made VENUE Link operational. VENUE 2.9 software’s main new features are its interoperability with Pro Tools through VENUE Link, giving you the ability to set... Posted Apr 22 2011, 02:00 AM by Brad Madix with Filed under: Live Sound, VENUE, Brad Madix

• Welcome to preproduction for the RUSH Time Machine Tour

  We’re journeying back to before the tour to explore what goes into building the mix. We loaded in some days ago, and I tinkered a bit with the new VENUE software (VENUE 2.9) and settled into my little control room. Here I want to second Greg Price’s... Posted Apr 09 2011, 01:00 AM by Brad Madix with Filed under: Live Sound, VENUE, Brad Madix

• Hello and welcome to the Time Machine

  This month Rush gears up to head out on the road to finish their Time Machine tour. We’ve loaded into a space for a couple of weeks of expensive hotel-dining, evening hockey-viewing, NCAA bracket-busting, and band rehearsals—otherwise known... Posted Mar 27 2011, 12:00 AM by Brad Madix with Filed under: Live Sound, VENUE, Brad Madix