Using a Generator to Power a Small P.A. System?
Steve La Cerra warns that a detailed understanding about the care and feeding of these power sources can make the difference between a successful or a nightmare gig.
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Making Console Files Festival Friendly
With the fast-approaching festival season, Steve La Cerra suggests creating some “festival-friendly” console files that will make surviving those inevitable “no sound check and five-minute set changes” more manageable.
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Turn Down Those Drums!
Keeping stage volume under control is a constant challenge at many performances, and Steve La Cerra looks into some effective percussion solutions that might just help on your next gig.
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Common Mistakes to Avoid When Miking Drums
Capturing a drum kit can be tricky, but it ain’t rocket science. Steve La Cerra offers some common pitfalls to avoid at your next gig.
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Protecting Your Investment
Audio pros have expensive toys, and a sad fact of life is that there are unsavory characters who covet those toys. Sometimes shady people steal… Read More »Protecting Your Investment
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Improving Your Audio Stream
Steve La Cerra offers some techniques and looks at some affordable accessories that can take the audio of your streaming gig to the next level.
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Taking Advantage of Console Automation
Feature sets on modern digital boards can be amazing, but Steve La Cerra takes a hard-line, realistic look at what automation can or can’t do for you. A must-read.
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WMAS: Wireless Multi-Channel Audio Systems
Steve La Cerra looks into this proposed solution for the current RF channel crunch and why this may be the future of wireless audio systems.
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Thinking Outside the Box (And Then Back Inside the Box!)
When things get crazy on the road, you sometimes have to come up with some equally “crazy” solutions, as Steve La Cerra found out during a recent tour.
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Routing to Subwoofers
There are many ways to send signals to subwoofers using auxes, buses or simply in-line. Steve La Cerra looks at the pros and cons of using each technique and what works best for your system.
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Aux Versus Bus: When to Use Which One
Steve La Cerra ponders this question that has been perplexing live sound engineers for centuries, if not longer. So which technique is best? Check it out!
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Using Custom Fader Banks
One major advantage of digital consoles is being able to manage a lot of channels using small worksurfaces. Steve La Cerra shares a few secrets for making it happen.
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