Amplifying your sound - Intro
This year at the Time For My Music community group, there have been a series of workshops about amplifying devices, what they do, and how to use them. The goal is to get the women more comfortable with the tech elements involved in their performance.
Why is this important? Well, many times, clients require musicians to bring and set their own public address (PA) system, as there are no professionals who can assist them at the venue. Even when there is a sound engineer or a DJ present, to have the understanding and vocabulary to talk to them empowers musicians and allows them to perform their best.
At the beginning of this series of workshops, many of the Time For My Music members were limited by their lack of knowledge about this topic. Now, they know what to do or ask for in order to get the sound that they want. Some of them have said that they have improved the quality of the sound set by someone else at the venue. It has been great!
To further spread this useful knowledge, we are going to share summaries of the workshop sessions in a series of blog posts:
- Health and safety, how to take care of instruments and equipment.
- Sound quality: equalization, gain and fader.
- Setting up and packing down: leads, adapters and equipment labels.
- Live mixing: reverb, delay, blend.
- Backing tracks.
- Sound check.
- Microphones.
There will be an update every Thursday starting next week. Be sure to stay tuned, and share with someone whose music career would thrive with this information!