Master Your Craft: Sound System Tuning for Confidence & Consistency

by Nathan Lively, Elis Bradshaw (Editor)

Improve your confidence and consistency, get more freelance work, and have more fun as an audio engineer.

The audio industry is undergoing a quiet revolution. Meeting audience demands for "magic sound" is getting harder every day, the cost of producing live events is going through the roof, and some of the smartest sound engineers are already changing their methods, or struggling against the tide. As scary as this is for some people, there are many others who are very excited about it, because when things change they bring big opportunities for those who pay attention.

The big emerging opportunity is in sound system tuning, which allows anyone to tap into the power of minimum variance design principles and create consistent results night after night in venue after venue. In this short and easy read you'll learn how this opportunity is reshaping the audio industry, which is currently separated by two contradictory the "golden ears" paradigm and a paradigm of science. This divide is unsustainable. The growing gap will drive many sound engineers into the ground and simultaneously create great opportunity for those who embrace a better way of doing audio and serving their clients.

Get started on your personal road to more confidence and consistency in your work with sound system tuning—buy your copy now.

104 pages, Paperback

Published November 21, 2016

About the author

Hi, I'm Nathan. I'm a Sound Engineer and Designer with a passion for audio. Over the last 12 years I have lived in Austin, Denton, New York City, Lisbon, Bratislava, and Berkeley and have worked in recording studios, concert venues, theatres, and out-door festivals. I started my podcast, Sound Design Live, to find answers. I had many questions that weren't being satisfied by the trade magazines and books I was reading. Sometimes an author would cover a really interesting event, but would merely list facts without finding out why those choices were made. Other times I would read a great book on audio that would leave me with new questions; hosting the podcast allows me to discuss my questions directly with the authors. I guess other people felt similarly, because since the podcast's creation in 2011 it has gained 37,000 followers on SoundCloud.

I realize now that there is a middle area of pro audio education and reporting that is widely ignored. Between learning to connect a microphone to a mixer and delivering white papers at an AES convention, people are on their own as far as continuing education. Online forums try to fill this gap, but the available material is pretty thin. For this reason I decided to document my own education and technical knowledge as a pro audio freelancer.