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Whenever you are using ‘house’ equipment (equipment supplied by the venue or others), always remember to be respectful of that equipment. Unless you’re Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and smashing guitars is a part of your brand or culture (ultimately this helped him generate conversation and thus was utilised as marketing), then leave the equipment the…

Yes it’s true! Failure is going to happen, you just don’t know when. And when it does occur, you will either look like a pro or a novice and the defining factor between the two will be whether or not you prepared earlier by bringing replacement gear. Replacement gear might mean extra strings on a…

Really simply, use the knobs to change your settings, rather than just pushing and pulling first. This way the mic stand will last more than one night without the infamous ‘arm drop’, which is when the arm on the mic stand slowly falls over time – a literal pain in the neck for singers, especially…

Understanding what equipment you are expected to supply should be fairly straight forward once you have established your setup. Guitarists for instance will simply need their guitar, leads (one to use as normal and always one as backup), plus anything else you use in your performance. You bring anything and everything you need to actually…

The mix engineer in a live scenario is responsible for ensuring that the sound the audience hears is an accurate representation of the sound you are performing. Between you and the audience, there are a number of processes that occur. Firstly, after your vocal exits your mouth, it needs to be received by the microphone…

Feedback is the unfortunate noise that occurs when a speaker’s output (FOH or Foldback) exceeds a threshold, enough for any microphone to receive it and send that same sound back through the sound system. The result is an exponential multiplication of a single wave that is almost immediately heard as a very high screeching sound…