LIVE SOUND MIXING is the first book to show you just how to pull a great sound out of a PA system. Duncan fry has survived many years on the Live Sound trail, and he's put together an easy-to-read ‘hands on’ manual that no beginning Live Sound engineer should be without.
LIVE SOUND MIXING is jam packed with useful information, diagrams, helpful hints and explanations — from the basic principles of how a PA system works through to trouble shooting when it doesn't!
This is not a technical book. Technical books can often be so intimidating that you are reluctant to risk twiddling a knob in case it’s the wrong one. Well, this book is not one of those. If you have an ear for music, then this book will show you how to link those ears to your fingers, and pull a good live sound out of any PA system.
Forget about endless pages of boring acoustic theory; who wants to get bogged down reading that? Not me! Instead this book tells you exactly what each knob does, why, and when to turn it. There are examples of just about every type of equipment you're likely to come across, as well as sections on:
- Equalizers and equalizing
- Mixing console layout and gain structure
- How to run a sound check
- Effects units, from tape echo through to digital reverbs
- How speaker processors work
- How to get the monitors happening
- Putting the mix together
- What to do when there's no time for a sound check; and lots more...
If you wamt to get into mixing bands, and don't know where to start, or if your already doing some mixing but feel you could use a little practical advise, the LIVE SOUND MIXING is the book for you.
