How Live Sound Engineering Works

August 27, 2012

INSTRUCTORS NOTES: SERIES 1 of 20

Featuring Jennifer Lopez Live

The singer has an awesome, soulful and powerful voice, the guitarists can wail, the drummer can pound out the emotion of the music, and the feeling is electrifying in away you’ve got the music in you!

But if the elements that make up the band you’re listening to live is sounding really ‘sick’, there’s a good chance that the unseen member of the band is having a good night, too. That person is, the live sound engineer, who’s responsible for delivering ­every subtle tweak of voices, instruments, and all audio equipment involved on stage in the band into your ears for a perfectly-balanced, live sound experience that you’ll remember forever!

All instruments and voices aren’t created equal.

For instance, some instruments are louder than others while the acoustic signature of some instruments can get lost. A live sound engineer’s job is to wrestle with these factors and coax the correct overall sound out of any situation. The fact is, the band can have a great night but the audience may never know it if the live audio engineer isn’t doing their job properly. In many ways, the live sound engineer is as important to a live band performance as any member on stage.

At MASTER MIX ((( LIVE ))) we train and prepare students to be proficient industry-quality Live Audio Engineers in our rigorous hands-on 20-week live audio program.

Students are taught by, world-class, Front of House-Senior Live Audio Engineers, and Live Broadcast Audio Engineers who are actively-scheduled to engineer at venues for some of the worlds top performers.

Master Mix Live Instructors teach what they do, and do what they teach, as live sound engineers at venues around the world – passing on industry best practices to our students.