No Time To Measure and Tune Your Sound System? Do THIS

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00:00 - Intro
02:02 - Roadmap
03:09 - Planning
12:15 - Setup
15:49 - Triage Tuning
22:25 - Recap
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We all want more time, especially on load-ins and setup. Sometimes we need a guide to "run and gunning" it.
I've had my fair share of shows with super tight deadlines and I don't always get the opportunity to get out my measurement gear. Good thing I have plan. And I'm sharing that with you today:
You'll learn:
- The one measurement I would take on any PA
- How to buy back time by improving planning and setup efficiency
- Why I only use two EQ filters when working quickly
- What are the biggest mistakes folks make when working too fast

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@soundman1402 Жыл бұрын

"I Will Remember" by Toto is another great tuning song.

@jen3800 Жыл бұрын

where the hell has this guy been all my life? this is exactly the type of guy i would want to run my tech team worldwide, and build consistency and excellence into every show

@MichaelCurtisAudio Жыл бұрын

You're very kind!

@cullendelmore2614 2 жыл бұрын

Another great presentation. Thanks for sharing your expertise. I get the feeling your channel is really going to take off. The quality of what you've been doing here is punching vastly above weight for the current subscriber count.

@optimusbraun2060 2 жыл бұрын

i agree

@MichaelCurtisAudio 2 жыл бұрын

That's very kind of you! I really appreciate the encouragement and feedback. We'll see if the channel keeps growing : )

@MichaelCurtisAudio 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@pswim62 4 ай бұрын

Punching way above weight. Incredibly informative and accessable

@benreavesmusic Жыл бұрын

Wow this is going to be a big big deal for me. 99% of my work has been with ZERO planning or information relayed to me before LITERALLY i Got On Site. System design changing during rigging, or "whatever that's fine" and running with it. So i am definitely going to be pushing for this sort of thing more and more. Someday I will convince someone to let me fix the system.

@tommykennedy7827 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Did a political event recently in an airplane hangar as a band member. No prep work by band leader. Lecturn but no goosneck or wireless mic. Got a little extra on stage time trying to adjust boom stand to each different politcal speakers' height. the curve ball was half way through we were informed 3 ladies would be performing an original tune, acoustic guitar w/ no pick up, so mad scramble to make that happen. Glad I have extra gear in van. Thanks for youtr inspiration :-)

@MichaelCurtisAudio 2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome. Sometimes shows are quite the scramble on setup!

@Tymasseun 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for always coming through, learnt alot from you so far

@MichaelCurtisAudio 2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome. Glad my teaching has been helpful to you.

@ashokcrastabela 2 жыл бұрын

Helpful information..👍👍

@MichaelCurtisAudio 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@chrisloizou3972 Жыл бұрын

Wow, this was a terrific video. Michael, thanks again for your contract help yesterday! If anyone watching these videos needs to hire a hand, you won’t regret hiring Michael!!

@Tosh_Herman Жыл бұрын

Hi Michael, your content has been very instrumental in helping me achieve better results, thank you. Question on the 2 shelving filters, do you apply them on the Left, Right Matrix or the Sub Matrix or the Mains that send to the matrices when you don't have external DSP?

@MichaelCurtisAudio Жыл бұрын

So glad my videos have been helpful! I apply those two shelving filets on my LR Matrix. The only EQ on my Mains Bus is for tonally shaping my mix. EQ for the SYSTEM itself is on the matrices.

@peteyj57 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great content in all your videos. I’m setting up a new show file for a new PA at church and had a question. I’m mixing on a dLive and have the ability to run mono or stereo. Should I run my Left-Right matrices as stereo or mono? The subs and front fills will be mono, but is there any benefit/difference between those options?

@MichaelCurtisAudio Жыл бұрын

If your mains speakers have any amount of overlap I would run stereo. When mixing I wouldn't be panning things out wide by any means, but having the reverb returns and such coming back in stereo does help make a sense of width and space.

@libr25 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff. Thank you, Michael. I mix in a old warehouse and we have to set up every Sunday with no time for tuning. The EQ tilt you mentioned, you said to High shelf 2k up, but on the target trace in another video, you have 1k upward down by -6db. Why Is this different? Thank you

@MichaelCurtisAudio 2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Great question, let me clarify my earlier point and the discrepancy. The target trace is where I eventually want the tonality of the entire PA to sit. I will use EQ to adjust a system's response until it's at that desired curve. That curve isn't the EQ I'm applying, but where I want the measurement to land. The two shelving filters I suggest are starting points for where you would actually apply the EQ to bend the current response of the system into the target OR to where your ear feels like the PA needs to sit (if you don't have measurement software).

@libr25 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the clarification

@MichaelCurtisAudio 2 жыл бұрын

@@libr25 You got it!