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Joel Singer, outside the Music Mix Mobile M3 recording rig, holds a Focusrite RedNet 6 MADI Bridge recently added to their recording arsenal.

Live Loses its Luster Inside an MP3

You’re all aware of the oil glut. Great if you have gas tanks to fill, not so much if you have retirement accounts loaded with petroleum stocks. Overcapacity is all around us — we’ve had gluts of airline seats and houses in the past. Today, we have surfeits of airliners, copper and PhD’s in the news. As with all shortages and surpluses, there are winners and losers, new opportunities and missed chances for every miscalculation of supply and demand.

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Keeping the house level at a reasonable level has benefits for both yourself and the audience, but also offers more headroom to create a more dynamic mix.

Hush…I’m Trying to Mix!

Suggestions for Getting a Great Sound at Lower SPL’s

How loud is your P.A. at the mix position? 100 dB? 105 dB? 115 dB? Do you even know? When was the last time you had a reality check and measured the average SPL for your show? Do you really need to mix that loud?

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Programs such as Shure’s Wireless Workbench (available for Mac and PC) can ease the task of managing multiple RF channels.

How Much Wireless Do You Really Need?

Hello FRONT of HOUSE readers! I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Vince Lepore, and starting with this issue, I’ll be writing the “Sound Sanctuary” column. I live in Orlando, FL with my beautiful wife Carrie and our two pugs Louie and Miles. Carrie and I both work at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, where I’m the technical director and Carrie is the graphic designer. I also teach live production full time at Full Sail University, a position that I’ve held for almost a decade. So, let’s get started…

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Illustration by Andy Au

A Little Therapy…It’s Our Job

I enjoy engaging people in conversation and hearing different points of view regarding a wide variety of topics. I take pleasure in hearing about a person’s life, their problems and their issues as well as talking about baseball, music, girls, audio, cars, guitars, home ownership, politics, books, movies and the world at large — though not necessarily in that order.

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George Petersen, Editor, FOH Magazine

Are You Listening?

We spend a lot of time listening; in fact, it’s a process that continues during most of our waking hours — unless you happen to be a college student dozing off during a lecture on 17th Century Planar Existentialism, in which case, all bets are off. However, according to research, we also even spend a fair amount of time listening while sleeping. So, unless you put in some hours in a sensory deprivation tank or possibly sleeping in anechoic chambers, listening is a 24/7 thing.

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Eric Church’s “The Outsiders” World Tour

Eric Church has a reputation for putting on rowdy, high-energy shows that were relatively simple. This time he went out with all the energy and all the frills. The country star puts on a rock act, almost like a southern Bruce Springsteen, though an encore can include just him and an acoustic guitar (at a show that spans almost two and a half hours, he doesn’t always need one).

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