How To Be A Live Sound Engineer In 4 Steps

Get better mixes, faster with my 3-step guide to perfect EQ: https://www.offshoreaudio.com/eq 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 https://amzn.to/3F49C7k 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