The Best Thing In Your Mix Is Ruining Your Mix: Thoughts On Managing The Low End

ProSoundWeb: Anthony and I had finally done it: we had a pair of Yamaha NS10s set up in a hotel room, ready to make our mark. Those speakers meant something — every serious studio had them, and every mixer we admired worked on them. Now we had what the pros had.

Critical Crossover: Getting The Most Out Of The Transition Area Between Subs & Mains

ProSoundWeb: I think most live mix engineers agree that a solid, thumping low-end response in pop and rock music is the standard and a preferred sonic outcome. However, the techniques we use to get that nice round sub bass low end are not always agreed upon.

The FOH Engineer's Guide to Better Rehearsals

Church Production Magazine: The rehearsal has barely begun when someone raises a hand. "I don't have any guitar." A few minutes later someone notices a keyboard isn't passing signal, a monitor mix needs attention, or the worship leader pauses to work through an unexpected issue. None of these interruptions are unusual, but together they can keep a rehearsal from accomplishing what it was intended to do.

Visualizing Uniformity: Common Misconceptions When Reading Heat Map Predictions

ProSoundWeb: An isobaric acoustic prediction is a critically important tool that allows a sound system designer to predict and evaluate how well a sound system covers the audience area. Designers and engineers can see a “pressure map” or “heat map” of the system coverage at a particular frequency range.

Sennheiser Now Shipping New Spectera SKM Handheld Wireless Transmitter

ProSoundWeb: Sennheiser announced that it’s now shipping the new Spectera SKM handheld transmitter, completing the core elements of the company’s bidirectional wideband wireless ecosystem that’s designed for live sound, theatre, broadcast and house of worship applications.

Solid State Logic To Showcase TCA Tour Fly-Away System At IBC 2026

ProSoundWeb: The Solid State Logic (SSL) fly-away TCA Tour production system, built from System T components in delivering the platform’s feature set in a portable desktop format for rapid deployment on location or on the road on broadcast, touring and live production applications, will make its IBC debut at the upcoming 2026 iteration of the show at RAI Amsterdam (stand 8.B45).

Lowering The Boom: Keeping Bass Energy Under Control As Part Of A Semi-Silent Stage

ProSoundWeb: Bass players provide the foundation for nearly all contemporary music. Without them, our mixes sound thin and nobody wants to dance. Add the right amount of bass and all of the sudden it’s a show. But while we love bass, it often leads to trouble, particularly in small rooms.

Solid State Logic To Present New System T V4.3 Update At IBC 2026 In Amsterdam

ProSoundWeb: Solid State Logic (SSL) announced that it is expanding its Open Sound Control (OSC) integration as part of a V4.3 update to its System T platform at IBC 2026 at RAI Amsterdam (stand 8.B45). Providing the ability for external systems to control System T console parameters via the open and extensible OSC protocol, the upgrade gives third-party equipment seamless access to the SSL ecosystem, supporting ad hoc workflows and offering enhanced flexibility and interoperability in modern production environments.

Simply Logical: A Straightforward Approach To Mixing Console Layout

ProSoundWeb: Somewhere back in the paleolithic era of live sound, mixing consoles were noisy. That’s because they were made of stuff. Look inside a modern digital console and what you’ll find is a few ribbon cable connecting the fader/encoder banks to a small motherboard. All that computerized digital magic has made audio mixers very, very quiet.

A Simpler Approach to Distributed Audio: The BZBGear BG-AMP150WD with DSP and Dante

Church Production Magazine: In church production, small pieces of infrastructure often do the most invisible—and most critical—work. Distributed audio systems rarely get the spotlight, yet they shape first impressions before a single worship note is played. From parking lots and outdoor walkways to lobbies, cafés, and restrooms, these systems are responsible for creating a welcoming environment that feels intentional, polished, and consistent.

1+1+1: Three Things That Every Mix Shares

ProSoundWeb: There are a lot of ways to build a great front of house mix. And there’s a lot of information out there about best practices when it comes to routing, EQs, dynamics, FX, and everything in between. But when it comes to my approach to mixing, there’s something that’s often overlooked and much more fundamental than any of the minutiae of mixing.

Multiple Destinations: Three Common Problems With Livestreaming From The FOH Console & How To Solve Them

ProSoundWeb: Thanks to the recent industry “pivot” towards livestreaming, I’ve seen a lot of forum posts, received a lot of phone calls, and talked to a lot of colleagues – mostly in house of worship audio – about how to achieve a successful livestream mix from front of house. Most of them boil down to three main issues, discussed here with my suggested approach for addressing each.

The Quad Console: Reconstructing The Desk For Pink Floyd's "Live at Pompeii" Performance In 1971

ProSoundWeb: It’s October 1971, and the Pink Floyd sound crew is setting up for the filming of “Live at Pompeii” in an ancient Roman amphitheater, having driven the equipment by road for three days from the UK. Pride of place is a new Allen & Heath 28-into-6 “Quad” mixer, the brainchild of maverick Floyd road manager Peter Watts.

Versatile Variations: An Approach To Downscaling To A Smaller Console Format

ProSoundWeb: I recently did a very compact gig with one of my regular bands that usually plays the largest format shows. This wasn’t going from 40 production semi-trailers to four, as we have for festivals in the past, where I can keep the same control package – this was scaling down to a small van carrying eight flight-cases for an exclusive performance in a small space. There was a limited footprint for my equipment, and my usual set-up was neither appropriate nor necessary.

Evie Clark-Yospa (Evie) – Recording, Mixing & Production Engineer

SoundGirls.org: Evie Clark-Yospa is a London-based recording, mixing, and production engineer with over a decade of experience in audio. Currently working as an Engineer at Baltic Studios, where she has been part of the team for the past three years, Evie balances her studio work with independent projects, bringing a versatile and intuitive approach to every session.

Real World Gear: Large-Format Digital Consoles

ProSoundWeb: When we talk of “large frame” consoles, older analog units with channel counts of 40 inputs or more come to mind because they actually had very large frames loaded with channel strips. In today’s digital world, however, we’re usually referring to a console that can professionally handle a large production, even if physically it’s not all that sizeable, because most use layers of fader banks to access additional channels and functions like aux sends on faders.

Kyle Gerhart chooses DirectOut for Creed and InPhase

LightSoundJournal.com: DirectOut manufactures high-end audio solutions that are the product of choice for many live sound engineers. This includes Kyle Gerhart, front of house engineer for Creed and owner of InPhase Productions LLC. Gerhart made the change to DirectOut PRODIGY and MAVEN after technical difficulties in 2024.

Oasis Live ’25 tour brings the biggest band of the ’90s back with DiGiCo on monitors

LightSoundJournal.com: Announced two days before the 30th anniversary of Oasis’ debut album, Definitely Maybe, the Oasis Live ’25 tour marks the band’s first live appearances since they acrimoniously split in 2009. The trek, which has crossed the UK, North and South America, Australia, and Asia, was so highly anticipated that it had the serendipitous and unexpected outcome of prompting six of Oasis’ previous LP releases to re-enter the UK charts, one of which even made it back into the top ten.

The Right Formula: A Veteran Engineer's Strategies For Better House Mixes

ProSoundWeb: My first question: How can FOH engineers develop a reliable formula for mixing success? I was curious to learn about his standard process when he walks into any gig, irrespective of size or circumstance.”

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Playing Audio On A Microphone

Hackaday: Using a speaker as a microphone is a trick old enough to have become common knowledge, but how often do you see the hack reversed? As part of a larger project to measure the acoustic power of a subwoofer, [DeepSOIC] needed to characterize the phase shift of a microphone, and to do that, he needed a test speaker.