Producing and promoting music and events in Seattle.
Join us on Saturday, January 6th, 2018 for a night of soulful higher consciousness music featuring four sets of music by three musical powerhouses at Substation, Seattle’s premiere underground music venue. This is your opportunity to catch The High Council playing two full sets. Hailing Read More …
DMX is the most common method for controlling intelligent stage lighting. DMX stand for “digital multiplex”. What that basically means is that a number of signals are sharing the same cable at the same time. DMX uses a five pin XLR cable to carry the Read More …
Not just anyone can be a stagehand. It’s physically demanding. It comes with long irregular hours and requires significant training to do well. A person must be able to focus in the face of distraction, work well on a team and be safety conscious at Read More …
I’ve been a live sound engineer for most of my life. I’ve seen a lot of strange things over that time. Once, I sodomized a taxidermied coyote with a mic stand in the line of duty. And yes… there was a microphone on the stand Read More …
The easy answer is that you record them, put them online and people just throw money at you. Too bad it’s not the right answer. Preparing an original tune for sale is not entirely straightforward but, it’s not impossible either. Here are a few steps Read More …
Mixing live sound is both an art and a science. Each situation has it’s own quirks and what works in one situation isn’t always going to work in the next. The goal of a good live sound engineer is to have the act sound great Read More …
It’s all about perspective. New performers and techs can get easily confused about stage directions. This is how they work. When you are standing on stage looking at the audience your right is “stage right” and your left is “stage left”. When you’re in the Read More …