How To Be A Live Sound Engineer In 4 Steps

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How To Be A Live Sound Engineer
Being a live sound engineer is one of the best jobs going. It’s stimulating, challenging, fun, artistic, and also flexible. But how do you go about becoming a live sound engineer? I’m going to take you through the three stages I think you should go through to be a live sound engineer. These don’t need to be exclusive and you can start one before you’re finished with the first one.
It’s based on mixing bands because I believe that if you can mix a band you can probably mix anything, so if you want to get into conference sound for some reason I’d still recommend this path. Just like anything in life, there’s no guarantee of success, but some version of this plan worked for me so it can work for you.
Useful links:
Live Sound Operators Handbook
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We’ll look at how to:
Educate yourself
Get experience
Get your foot in the door
Continue your journey
00:00 Introduction
01:04 Free EQ guide
01:38 Educating yourself
04:26 Getting experience as a live sound engineer
05:44 Getting your foot in the door as a live sound engineer
09:10 Continue to learn
10:21 Summary

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@outdatedgear5036 Ай бұрын

This is the most straight forward advice I've ever heard. Great info.

@OffshoreAudio Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad it was helpful!

@audioerick 8 күн бұрын

To me the most difficult thing is keeping calm among all the chaos

@davidoutzs796 8 күн бұрын

Good content- thanks for posting specific suggestions that many times get ignored. If you’re in a city, you should also check out the local theatrical union - IATSE - that has training and apprentice programs, and an immediate way to get experience. They even came recruiting at a community college in my area that was teaching live audio class.

@naiyalexic 8 ай бұрын

How in the hell does this video only have 64 likes? Dude, thank you so much for putting this out here. I'm interested in doing corporate live sound, rather than clubs and bands.

@OffshoreAudio 8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Corporate is great, I do quite a lot. If there's anything you're wondering about then let me know and I'll try make a video about it.

@Isaac_Oi 6 ай бұрын

Great video! I’ve been producing/organizing punk shows for the past year in my town. I’ve had a friend to do the live sound mixing but now looking to doing it myself. Your advice is spot on! You just gotta be confident, humble, speak up and take action. I’ve met so many bands and business owners doing what I do. Looking forward to following you and learning sound engineering🤘

@OffshoreAudio 6 ай бұрын

Thanks, Great to hear! Keep at it.

@bashema6608 Жыл бұрын

I've recently discovered your channel and am finding it so very helpful. I am just starting out as a sound engineer although I come from a musical background performing live. I was mainly doing shadowing but I engineered my first show last week of DJ's, MC's and one singer/guitar. So far in my experience, there doesn't seem to be many female sound engineers in the industry, which definitely makes me more determined to continue in this crazy & exciting world!

@OffshoreAudio Жыл бұрын

So glad it's been helpful. You're right that there's not a huge amount of female sound engineers, something which is slowly changing I feel. It takes all sorts to make the world work and I think dievrsity in the work place is only a good thing. So keep that determination, you got this :)

@samuelfavourkamara4297 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate this lesson you through me great things to do as a sound engineer

@agyekumbismark1121 6 ай бұрын

Best teaching ♥️ as it my biggest dream to become super star 🌟 sound engineer in my country Ghana 🇬🇭 tho i knew nothing about this program buh as it my dream to be and with the help of this video am gonna blow 1 day 🙏. Please keep doing more teachings sir.

@namunaman9943 Жыл бұрын

I think this will help me too because i do lighting like madrix led strip and kinetic lights and resolume for screening and minipearl for moving head and there is sound engineer too and i can only open patch and start live band and i want to learn more so i dont have knowledge about hearing how the sound is actually be good and eq also i dont know so i think it will help me then if you also beed any help from me with strip led and kinetic and trying to use ilda lasers also using manldmapper and beyond software i will deafinitely help you ❤❤❤❤

@ultrastar23 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful tips man!!

@OffshoreAudio Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@evangilbert4377 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. You explain things in a really easy to understand way. I mix sound once in a while for church events, and church is where I got started, as a musician, and then mixing as well. I would love to get some more opportunities for earning and learning.

@OffshoreAudio Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! Best of luck getting more shows. If there's anything you need to know then let me know and I'll make a video

@cameronclarkhull Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Currently an AV tech for the NHS, but I want to become a sound engineer. Currently in a small community theatre as a volunteer. Just trying to progress beyond this 🙂

@OffshoreAudio Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful. Sounds like you're on the right track! If there's anything else your wondering about then please let me know and I'll try and make a video about it :)

@FOHguy 5 ай бұрын

It's actually five steps. Finding catering is very important.😁

@rossderbyshire9860 Ай бұрын

I got offered to shadow a live sound engineer for a big band, but i dkmt have enough education on live mixing yet. Anymore tips?

@OffshoreAudio Ай бұрын

Yes. Shadow as much as you can. do it every week. do it with different people. Find someone who is happy to talk through what they're doing while they do it. If they're grumpy and don't want to teach you, then find someone else. You don't want to learn from those kinds of people. You don't need to know how to mix yet, you just need to shadow. Also just watch everything you can find on youtube. Watch all of my videos, write down everything you don't understand and then email me (you'll find my email on my channel). Then I'll make more videos to fill the gaps in your knowledge or I'll point you in the right direction. But you need to get hands on in a safe environment, that's the most important.

@user-cf6tx7cb9u 7 ай бұрын

As a young kid trying to work out how on earth I get into a job which seems to have such little information this video is awesome. Is there a way I can contact you to talk about sound engineering as I would love to learn more about your experience in this line of work?

@OffshoreAudio 7 ай бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad it helped you out! Drop me an email if there's something you're wondering about. offshoreaudio@gmail.com