One nice thing about hanging the same rig in the same room regularly is that I get to explore and experiment, and try to improve things each time. Here are some of the things we worked on this time around: Mains Mains are 6 boxes per side zoned as three composites (2 @ 3°, 2 …
Audio and acoustics guru Ethan Winer has a lovely measurement mic comparison on his RealTraps website. Here are some of my own tests as an expansion of that idea. The mics used for these tests are the ones I happened to have in my kit at the time: two iSEMcon EMX-7150 (not sold as a matched pair) …
Here’s a video I made explaining the basics of THD and looking at an interesting measurement from Ethan Winer.
For the last six months or so I’ve been working on Smaart SPL, a standalone SPL measurement and logging tool from Rational Acoustics. I’ve learned a lot along the way and I’m very proud of what we’ve got now that it’s finally out in the wild. One of the cool aspects of this project has …
This chart shows NIOSH exposure dose data for nine live music events I worked on in the last few months, sorted by performance duration (longer performances on the right). The data is stated in percent dose, with 100% representing the full recommended exposure limit for the day. Green bars indicate shows that I mixed (I had …