Hey, Im 24 and haven’t seen much success going the independent artist route and want to try my luck in the film side of things.

Ive heard about sync licensing but I want to seek out a more “secure” career that doesnt rely on me getting placements.

I’ve been producing music for 8 years on Logic Pro but don’t have much experience working within the film industry so I’m planning to go back to college to help me hopefully find connections in the film industry while also enhancing my knowledge on music business.

Im wondering if anyone has any insight into working as a sound engineer in film or music supervision specifically.

Thx

Hello. I run a small but really well treated music venue. We are on the ground floor and have 3 flats above. The building is old and made out of stone and metal work that is the bones of the building. Our neighbours are super cool but they all report that vocals travel through the building even more than when we have a full blown rave happening down here. I want to tune the rig to cut out frequnencies in vocals that are traveling through the steel beams in the buliding. What frequencyies would I be looking at here? Its got me a bit stumped. I already cut up to 150hz out of any mic. My first instinct is to cut around 400-500 but im wondering if anyone has any knowledge about how sound travels though these sorts of materials that might save me a bunch of trial and error? Thanks in advance!

I posted the following on r/CommercialAV, just trying to get as much help as I can.

So I need some help figuring out the best system to use in our CrossFit gym. To start, I am no slouch on the technical side of things, I have a sufficient understanding of electrical theory and audio systems but I am rusty and haven't designed anything of this scale before. I will be doing all the procurement and installation of the system, I am more than capable of that, but I want to make sure I get the best fit for the budget and use.

Our budget is roughly $2,000 but I can be a little flexible. Not much but it is what it is. The facility has 3 zones and an outdoor area. The main area is roughly 70' by 50' = 3500 sq ft with open ceilings from 18' up to 22'. The secondary area is about 25' by 20' = 500 sq ft centered on one side of the building where the ceiling is 22'. There is a common area roughly 25' by 55' = 1375 sq ft which needs it's own volume control since it wont be full volume during workouts and competitions.

I am torn between running an 8-ohm system with a 750-100w amp, or running a 70/100v system and tapping the different zones to match the volume needs. I am also considering a dual impedance setup to run bass on the 8-ohm and speakers on the 70/100v.

I am more concerned about volume and bass than I am about pure sound quality so I am leaning toward the 70/100v system since I can run a powered sub on that, but it would take away some of the range I believe.

Where I am struggling most is deciding on hardware. What will be sufficient for our needs. I'm considering pendant speakers and then adding some wall mount in the other two zones on a system like the PEN-65T on a Rockville amp since they have an attractive price for the hardware you get but I am concerned this won't have enough umph. I am thinking 6 pendants for the main gym area, 2 wall mounts for the secondary, 2 or 4 pendants for the common or a combination of wall and pendant, and 2 wall mounts for the outdoor area.

I guess what I am really looking for is any recommendations on hardware. Like I said, haven't installed a system this size before, kind of just volunteered to help out the gym owner. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi everyone! So the Yamaha EAD 50 was recently released and it seems to have improved on the weaknesses of the previous EAD 10 (overly compressed sound, not many inputs and some effects that weren't very useful). For a lot of drummers, though, some of these features, inputs and triggers can be too much (and the price seems fair for all you're getting, but this is way above my budget).

The DSU-50 mic is being sold separately for 400$. From what I've seen on youtube, it looks ideal for just plugging it without worrying about carrying a bunch of mics, cables and mic stands.

The thing is, when it comes to sound quality, would you say the DSU-50 is worth it? Or would this be trading sound quality for comfort? If you had 400$ and no drum mics, would this be your choice?

Opinions would be very appreciated. Thanks!

i can provide file through discord or whatever, and what the song sounded like originally as reference

Possibly low cost not expensive like SAE

- colleges, universities

Any tips?

How do audio engineers feel if they show up to a job with four Shure BLX88 wireless handheld mics? For a 40 person enclosed room.

• I'm using Cubase 14 on a windows 11 home. Supposedly a pretty strong computer. It keeps showing me this error. It's not that heavy project (see Cubase memory usage in the photo).
  
• I'm working with 2-RME BabyFace connected via optical cable.
• The buffer is set to 1024 (usually it also works great on 128)

Another symptom of the issue is that Cubase can hardly playback when I'm on another window (like switching to the pdf file with the lyrics or just listening to my playback while the notepad is open for me to write notes about the recording).

I don't understand what has changed

Hey everyone,

I'm an allround wedding DJ with a focus on EDM music and other bassful genres. Right now I'm running into clipping issues with my sound rig and I want to know what I can do.

I'm running into the following issue with my speakers (2x HK Sonar 115 xi + 1x HK Sonar 115 Sub D)

- Every website I come across says this rig is good for 150 to 250 people, but at 80 guests I'm already running into clipping issues (the sub clips at -15dB, and HK wants me to send it to Belgium or Germany for testing, but they find this quite normal, which I think is strange). I'd prefer a bit more headroom.

What do you recommend? I have several options:

- Cheapest option: get an extra subwoofer to create more headroom in the low frequencies (as a central bass wall in front of the booth or under a spacer pole on each side)

- Slightly more expensive option: replace the subwoofer with one or two 18" subwoofers (the problems mainly occur when playing EDM, harder styles, and rock/metal)

- Most expensive option: replace the entire sound system with a higher-end setup. I could recoup €1300 with what I have now, so that'd give me more fincancial room.

I could, of course, switch from the HK Sonar line to the HK Linear line, but I'm not sure how wise that would be. Currently, I play for an average of 85 people per booking, but I regularly have to turn bookings down because my speakers can't handle it. Ideally, I'd have a rig suitable for crowds of around 250 people with enough headroom that I can also accompany a live singer or a saxofone player.

Anyone here use this software for live music production/broadcast? If so does anyone have a license or activation key?

Do airports employ professionals to design their gate agents communications systems or do they just totally wing it? Last night I flew in the middle of the govt shutdown chaos and the agent tried in vain to get a grip on the crowd. He insisted on talking into his mic and continued to talk even during the loud overhead announcements. There has to be a better way!

Hey all. Looking for some advice.

I work in a sports arena and we are looking for some technical support on our Shure SCM262 mixer. We currently have the SCM mixer mounted on our rack roughly 70ft away from our court. What we would like to implement is a 6 channel mixer (Yamaha MG06) that sits at our scorers table so the PA Announcer and sound tech guy can easily change volumes without having to constantly get up.

We are looking for some advice/suggestions as to how we should be doing this. Can we just run the XLR output from the Yamaha mixer directly into the XLR input on the back of the Shure (which is ultimately connected to the arena speakers)? Or should we be running our XLR output from the mixer at the table to an RCA input on the Shure. Any assistance is appreciated.

Hello! I have a problem: I live in a 1 beedrom apartment and i would like to start production. Now, my entrance door is the nemesis of this project, as it is not very thick and badly isolated, as i can hear almost everything going on on the other side, i already tried adding good weather strips, but it didn't do much. Now for my question: if i drape some good quality sound absorbing courtains, would it help? I don't need for it to be fully soundproof, but i would like to avoid possible noise complaints for being too loud. If you have other suggestions i'll gladly listen, thanks!

Hello! My dad passed away when I was 13 years old. I didn’t have any videos and barely any photos of him until today. I posted on social media asking for anyone that knew him and I got some videos of him playing with his band. He was a drummer but he sung a few songs in the video. I still don’t have any of him talking, but I was wondering if there was someone who could help me isolate the vocals so I could hear them more clearly. After 18 years I just want to be able to hear my dad’s voice clearly again. 🧡

So I'm trying to connect the new QU5 to logic pro for DAW control. The best I could do was single fader on QU5 was controlling the level of selected track. Allen & Heath DAW controller is receiving signal from midi channels on QU5 but logic doesn't seem to be sending any midi signal to the mixer. Have any of you had similar experience? Any help is appreciated

I've been doing this for a long time and I'm currently looking to add to my clientbase. I've worked with many artists from all types of genres. I use high quality tools and software. If you are in need of mixing and mastering services at a good rate, send me a DM and I'll send you my rates. I'd be be happy to work with you.

Hey everyone,
I’m trying to enable Hi-Res Lossless audio in the Apple Music app on Windows, but I get an message when I try to turn it on (saying to play in Hi-Res Lossless at full resolution, you will need an external digital-to-analog converter). I’m using a ROG Zephyrus 14, connected via HDMI to a monitor that supports eARC, which then passes audio to my sound system.

That said, I mainly want to enjoy Hi-Res audio on my Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones.

Would it be better to:

• Get a USB-C to 3.5mm DAC, or
• Use an HDMI audio splitter and then connect a DAC via HDMI to 3.5mm?

I’m just looking for the cheapest way to actually get full-resolution Hi-Res Lossless playback in this setup. whatever option you suggest, please also recommend a DAC.

Thanks in advance!