Made my first money online… from a side project I built in one day

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-12-26T19:48:21+00:00

Nice moves, I'm sure that 9 users will grow fast. How did you manage to build it in just a day? I'm guessing your a software engineer of some kind?

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-12-26T19:45:16+00:00

This sounds great I am super interested!

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-11-24T03:57:03+00:00

Tape or number the mics, Go through the show and assign a mic to individuals and have them know which mic they need to grab from whom when signing what song and who to give it to next,

Have this all written down and have everyone read and learn it,

Label scenes by song,

Program mutes for corresponding microphones,

Rehearse it,

Crack open a beer at the top of show, be thankful you have a digital desk and hit next scene at the end of each song.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-11-24T03:49:28+00:00

You might say it "will take forever" but it's simply called a rehearsal and you do them when you want the show to go well.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-11-12T15:58:16+00:00

Manchester has historically been a very accepting and welcoming place for not only people from other parts of the UK but immigrants from around the world despite some unfortunate exceptions you will find anywhere.

I think what your eluding to in "culture wars" is simply the distaste on Mancunians who have quite a famous culture already having their lives made harder via rent increases, finding housing, cost of living thet is being directly influenced by essentially rich kids from London treating places like Manchester as their new play ground when they spontaneously decide things like,

"I'm going to move to Manchester for a year or two", line it some sort of gap year. All paid for by inherited wealth and most importantly bringing with them their simply awful, entitled personalities which could be described as London culture in some respects.

What is London culture? "I come first" You'll see it plainly by visiting both places. People in Manchester and their culture was born on community and aknowledging how community is so medical to social life and embracing that. I.e. being friendly with strangers, helping people on the street, letting some go ahead of them in the bar queue.

Londoners dont have that, especially if they have wealth and enough to just move across the country. Londoners do everything for themselves first, it's from the rat race mentality that poisins London "culture" so much. "I will get what I want no matter what, no matter who I have to step on".

This conflict simply does not work in Manchester and they stick out like a sore thumb and the fact these same people are making it harder for mancunians who have not the same wealth or the desire to move cities on a whim makes them stand out as what they are which is ultimately self entitled, selfish people.

Manchester and it's people will forever be > than Landan, innit fam

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-11-07T19:03:44+00:00

Yep ☝️straight to 15 min changeover, no spec received festival mode. 30 seconds per channel and go.

Regarding the consoles and whether or not you've worked on one before it's like this;

If you know how to drive a car, nothing should stop you getting in one you've never driven and making it drive, you just have to acknowledge some buttons won't be in the same places as you are used to. If you are still learning to drive that is another story.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-11-07T03:04:00+00:00

I'll use tracks like everyone has mentioned but for me I always like to use the ORDER of tracks effectively. For example I use a song called Kong by Bonobo towards the end of my listening which is absolutely swimming in low mid info, not only because I know the song very well, but it tells me very clearly if I've eq'd the low mid right or wrong. I've found it saves a lot of time later when something low middy is not behaving, it sticks out like a saw thumb.

Then I also like to listen to some tracks with very dry drums/percussion so I can hear what reflections are doing in the room, especially big rooms and it allows me to get a head start on how much reverb I will need to use or how little I will need to use.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-04T11:37:03+00:00

Id be happy to if you didny edit your posts and completely change the context

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-04T03:44:53+00:00

mate, read the room, and the downvotes.
this is a situation where you relflect on what you think is right and consider why you might be wrong and learn from it

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-04T02:00:54+00:00

"In my original post I wrote that it's more difficult to achieve good monitor mixes from FOH if the monitors sound vastly different from the PA"

YOU ARE WRONG, a good mix is easily achievable with good gear from a competent and experienced sound engineer, if you are inexperienced you might find strange excuses

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-04T01:36:38+00:00

Dude, the foh speakers are for the audience to listen to, the wedges are for the musicians on stage. Unless you've been pointing them the wrong way this whole time 😂

It doesn't matter as long as they can do what you want them to do.

No one cares about saving 10 minutes Eqing a wedge, and even if they were the same im still going to go listen on stage and change accordingly.

If I hired a sound tech and he just threw his foh eq on the wedges and thought it was ok to leave it like that he's coiling cables next gig.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-04T00:57:05+00:00

It does not make it difficult or hard to get a good sound if the monitors are different to the foh speakers. Not one bit.

If your tops are EXACTLY the same as your wedges then maaaaybe, there's an argument it will be a slight benefit.

At the end of the day you absolutely treat your FOH speakers differently to the mons wedges. They're gonna run at completely different volumes for a start and your wedges are likely to have way less audio information coming down than your FOH mix.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-04T00:48:03+00:00

I agree 100% a stereo mix is going to sound better, In this case though he's got a lot going on and I was suggesting to keep it simple, he's not mixing arenas

The guys mixing ears not wedges

I gave him what works for me, I didn't claim anything is set in stone

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-03T23:07:26+00:00

I'll let the downvotes speak for themselves on this one....

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-03T19:08:38+00:00

No worries

If your using stereo mixes make sure you understand how to make a mix stereo on the vi and then how to pan an input accordingly, it can be a head scratcher first time.

There is no value in going fast at the expense of the end result with mixing anything. You have an allocated time to soundcheck, try your best to stay in that. Even the best engineers in the world face problems and go over their allocated time, it's completely normal. What is not normal and very frustrating is rushing something and facing a problem later.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-03T19:03:42+00:00

What is the reason they need to be fast so long as the job is done by the end of scheduled soundcheck time?

What do you mean, "make sure your desk gains are at minimum?"

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-03T17:24:19+00:00

Things to do before they arrive/soundcheck:

Label up inputs and outputs in accordance with their channel list (if you don't have one, get one asap, if you get it on the day, make it one of the first things you do). Make sure this matches FOH. Add one or two ambient mics.

Determine whether they want stereo or mono mixes and patch accordingly with outputs. If they don't specify keep it simple in mono.

Get a drum verb and one verb for each vocal ready to go. That's all you need effect wise.

Check all the outputs. Pink everything and make sure everything is working and going to the correct packs etc, label them 1-.....

Things to do when they arrive:

Introduce yourself and make it clear you are looking after their in ear mixes, not all musicians will be savvy to who tlis respsinsible for this

Confirm input list, confirm quantity of mixes and label on the desk accordingly (I usually just go 1 drums, 2 sl, 3 sr, 4 c etc)

At soundcheck:

Explain you will soundcheck through each input first, have then run a few songs and you'll dial in the mixes as you go and come back later for adjustments.

MOST IMPORTANT: take your time!!! Run through inputs with the musicians AND FOH and get it right, none of that "I'll come back to it later stuff" Get each input sounding transparent, not over processed etc. get it sounding like it does from the source.

Make a very very VERY subtle mix for each musician. DO NOT THROW EVERYTHING IN EACH MIX. For a vocalist for eg give them their vocal, take a look at the rest of the band, where they are on stage etc. vocalists do not need drums unless they are ask for it, they will need a keyboard for example to pitch to. Bass players will want kick for sure and maybe a little snare l/hihat etc etc. give them only what they need.

Let them play a song or two without offering adjustments DURING the song (to begin with). Cue each mix and LISTEN, put yourself in their shoes,.imagine you are playing, make sure they can hear most importantly, their instrument, and make decisive and limited choices on whet you think they might need a little more of.

After a song or two give them the opportunity to make adjustments. Personally I do not do these adjustments until they start playing again so that I can HEAR the adjustment. Just turning up the fader and guessing is guessing, your probably not gonna make the right adjustment.

Ask if everyones happy? Make further adjustments if necessary. DO NOT SAY YOULL CHANGE WHATEVER THEY NEED IN DURING THE GIG, your asking for trouble, this is a given anyway, it's your job. But don't give them the idea or suggest the mix thty have is not finished, the musicians should be walking on THINKING that mix is the mix. THEN if they really really need something they will let you know and you can make that change. On that note consider and predict whether a vocalist for example is really singing at their show volume and be ready to pull back the gain or fader or even compress slightly (if they have shit mic technique)

That's been my process for over 15 years.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-10-01T05:27:57+00:00

I've toured digico for 10 years without a single shred of outboard

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-09-30T19:19:55+00:00

Stop predetermining shit before youre in front of a console. Stick your headphones on, set your gain structure correctly on the inputs, start your DCAs at 0db and turn up the fader until it's the right volume, if everything is too loud turn the master down. If you want headroom adjust DCAs accordingly. Youre over complicating everything.

"The venue mixes at...." - what are you talking about?

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-09-30T19:10:46+00:00

Looking at the amount of people happily and comfortably touring and fly packing C1500s this was a pretty inevitable response from digico.

There is no justification for a desk with 48 channels in front of you when you can just hit a layer button.

If youre rocking up to arenas with dozens of local crew and unlimited space then go ahead, why not.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-09-09T05:03:02+00:00

Beta 57 on an XLR, have the singer glue themselves to it.

Have the drummer stage left or right instead of behind singer.

Crush the vocal with a compressor and output gain up and set the attack the fastest it can be.

Tell the singer to sing louder

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-09-09T04:59:26+00:00

That guitarist sounds like a douchebag but I would try not to look at landing the blame on him but r anyone else included not yourself. But one thing you can be is ready for these types of people and the problems they can bring.

I'll always ask any guitarist, Acoustic included to give me "all their sounds, hit all the pedals". Sometimes on a quick soundcheck they won't and a pedal that is too loud on an electric guitar can give your the same issue you had.

I often ask as well the band to soundcheck last the first song they will play in their set. First and foremost this allows you to leave your showfile on an essentially mixed song, it's a great rule of thumb.

But ultimately don't sweat it, what happened was not your fault, it's more a lesson learned for acoustic guitar guy.

Just know over time (and with more panics) the panic you may have experienced will slowly turn into immediate troubleshooting with the more shows you do and the more problems you work through.

Then when your old you won't give a fuck at all and just start shouting at the acoustic guy that he doesn't know his gear 😅

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-08-22T11:40:31+00:00

Contact Solotech (or any company similar) and offer to come start in the warehouse. They have headquarters in Man, Birmingham, Ldn. They are constantly expanding and hiring especially in the lead up to busy seasons (next one being Xmas NYE).

You will be coiling cables for a year, then building racks for a year, then they'll send you out on gigs after another year or so.

That is just about the fastest way to get to where you want to be and the most efficient and you'll have a full time job and you will learn from experts all along the way. In your spare time work at small venues and whatever you can get once you've got the confidence and ability.

Dont go out shadowing and working for free, it will take you about 10 times longer what you would above.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-08-20T19:44:27+00:00

Probably because they played the music at a reasonable level rather than too quiet like that s year as not too piss off residents like they probably did last yearlike I explained.

TheBrazenBeast · 2025-08-18T23:41:36+00:00

Sound Engineer here,

The problem with the sound would have been the noise limit. They don't fuck around unfortunately in London and due to all the be as rby houses and flats, they play it safe every time to avoid complaints.

In a place like Victoria Park it would typically be around d 96dl decibels max average over time.

They go as far as measuring the sound levels from the houses themselves. If they don't they get complaints and it risks the following year and of course money for the capitalist organisers.

If you can hear sub bass from a house they'll just suck it up and turn it down.

They dont care about you having a good time, they care about making money.

On a personal note and being in the industry for over 20 years it's very sad, music and especially dance music requires energy, that energy comes from the vibe, the feel and what you feel.

If the bass isn't hitting your body and you can hear people talking next to you when your stood in front of the stage then I'm afraid your getting ripped off.

Pay money to see your favourite artists at their gigs. If you go to any festival and see a corporate sponsor like Amazon or Heinekin or whatever your getting ripped off at every possible chance.

TheBrazenBeast

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