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Rate Your Audio Skills, Knowledge & Personality Type - Pro Sound Web As technology accelerates at a dizzying rate and increases in processing power are only rivaled by the size of k***s on “retro analog” gear, we find ourselves navigating between magical-designer patch cables and legitimate advances in audio.

It's time to maximize your audio mixes by getting minimalistic. Learn to create natural sounding mixes with a minimum amount of inputs.
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Minimalistic Audio Mixing | The Live Audio Academy There are a few genres of music where musicians tend to shun the use of an audio system. Take classical music for example. Most orchestras play in finely-tuned acoustic environment of a concert hall. Architects work hand-in-hand with acousticians to achieve a room that both looks and sounds impec…

Are your live recordings lacking a bit? Here are three suggestions to hop-up your board mixes.

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Live Audio Recording | The Live Audio Academy Manufacturers put RCA main outputs on their consoles for a reason. Whenever you need a quick reference recording, pull a mix from the main outputs. Take a stereo RCA to 1/8th inch stereo mini cable and connect to your favorite portable recorder. Or, some consoles have recording capability directl…

Break away from your digital mixing console and mix "unplugged". http://ow.ly/RBGZJ

Mixing “Unplugged” | The Live Audio Academy What if I told you that you can mix front of house from ANY seat in the house, and not be tethered by any kind of cable? You would probably say,...

Fine-tune your festival live audio with these five tips. http://ow.ly/RltzC

Festival Fun! | The Live Audio Academy With the summer festival season winding down, I think it is good to reflect on how we did as audio professionals. What did we do right this year? ...