Let me fill you in on what I've been up to for the past year.

This time I give you a list of the top items I think everyone should carry with them as a sound tech for hire.

This week I am keeping on the theme of real life trouble shooting. I ended up short on the number of channels I needed for a headliner and had to fix a channel that wasn't working properly. I explain the situation in detail and how I (we) got around the problem. 

This is a walk through of how I set up the live stream concert with my band. With no concerts happening this is one way to keep your skills up and possibly even get yourself some work out of it. 

This week I have a chat with Mitchell McCloy about his experience of going from industry arts college right into working for a production company and running his own studio Canadian Daydream. 

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Here is my interview with Justin Meli, FOH tech for Crown Lands and studio wizard. We talk about getting home from Europe in the Covid outbreak and of coarse some sound tips. We talk about laying out all the channels for the band and his approach to dealing with having a drummer as a lead singer! Every tech out there knows the struggle.

I spoke with Paul Maxwell, owner of Maxwell's Concerts & Events music venue on COVID - 19.  We talk about the effects of the virus on a local and global scale when it comes to live music and what it was like for him to have to close his doors until further notice. 

What can you do when you are stuck at home.  Here's a couple good websites to do some ear training.  First one is the Golden Ears training at moultonlabs.com/full/product01 
The next is one musictheory.net  This site has lots of stuff. Go to exercises and click through to interval training. 

Dave and I talk about tube amps vs sims, a history of guitar amp companies, and some more technical stuff about how to understand an Ohm load from amp to speaker.

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This week I have Zach Gerber on the show. He owns Skytrack studios and he has done a lot of work with Walk off the Earth since their rise to fame in 2012 as well as many other artists.  We discus life on the road and in the studio.  What it's really like on a tour bus and how to make it through each show on top. We get into the unique pressures of doing live shows compared to the recording studio and the hard choice of if you could only do one, which would you pick?
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