Stagecraft for Live Sound Engineers

Name: Stagecraft for Live Sound Engineers
Rating: 4.2 (92 reviews)

Improve your professionalism and impress employers

Created bySoulsound School

Last updated 10/2015

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What you'll learn

Present themselves and their workspace professionally
Impress clients with safe, fast and efficient work
Create a comfortable performance space for the artist
Run a neat and efficient live music stage
Label and colour code a stage clearly
Set up microphone stands correctly
Place microphones so they don't suffer from droop
Coil cables correctly
Label and run cables, looms, fan outs and fan ins
Understand stage orientation terminology
Decide on a centre point of an asymmetrical stage
Know how to design your workspace on a stage
Set up wedge monitors for musicians
Create a great "gig bag" of tools to take to work

Course content

8 sections • 16 lectures • 1h 7m total length

Introduction To Stagecraft2:49
Justin explains why the practice of good stagecraft is so important. Good preparation of equipment and work space results in a stage that is safe, and which helps the performer to deliver the best performance possible.

What's In My Gig Bag?6:06
Essential kit for a live sound engineer.
Stage Orientation: know your left from your right, your up from your down5:36
The correct technical terminology is important when talking about the stage and theatrical terms can be confusing. Not any more...
Designing the Workplace1:52
Justin describes how to make sure you have the correct information to hand before load-in, what to do if information doesn’t match up, and how to plan your work area.

Introduction To Labelling3:43
Justin explains how to “greal” a stage. The use of multicolour tape, clear and precise labelling, colour coding is essential, and removing old labels prevents confusion.
Labelling Inputs6:00
To make your set-ups and changeovers quick and efficient, Justin goes into detail about the best way to label cables and DI boxes (especially that pad switch!)
Labelling Satellite Boxes4:35
Justin shows us how to label your satellite boxes so the switch between headliner and support band is a seamless operation, and gives us some handy tips to anticipate and prevent patching mistakes and make sure there is no possibility of a short.
Labelling Tails3:49
Justin demonstrates his highly organised and efficient method of labelling your tails to ensure there is no chance for error.
Label Orientation and Labelling Mains Power3:07
Yes, Justin is obsessed with labelling, and so should you be! Learn how to make really useful labels that are actually legible, from XLRs to mics and DI’s, labelling mains power and how to stop people plugging lights and fans into your nice clean audio mains.

Connecting Monitors5:17
There’s more to connecting up your wedges than meets the eye! Being methodical and tidy reduces margin for error, and makes a good impression. Making up a monitor loom is one way of keeping your stage neat, tidy and safe.
Plugging Up The Stage5:31
The beauty of the “grealing” system is that once all is properly labelled, patching up your stage is simple and easy. Top tips on reducing margins for error.

Requirements

Students should have at least a small amount of experience on a rock and roll stage.

Description

Justin Grealy has over thirty years experience in the rock and roll business, and has even had the verb "to greal" a stage coined after him - meaning to label and colour code a stage environment so that show-stopping mistakes are almost impossible to make.

This is an immensely practical course on how to make a rock and roll stage into an efficient, safe and pleasant working environment. You will need some experience on or around stages,understand basic signal flow in live sound - the difference between inputs and outputs, what satellite or sub boxes and monitors are - and that your job as a sound engineer is to provide a stage which makes it easy for the artist to perform.

The course consists of 16 videos which will take just over an hour to complete, but which will change your working life as a live sound engineer.

Who this course is for:

This course is suited to Sound Engineers who are either starting out and want to learn how to present themselves more professionally or other engineers who have fallen into bad habits with untidy stages!
It is not suited to seasoned pros who have immaculate stages

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Start Here1 lecture • 3min

Preparing For Work3 lectures • 14min

Cabling and Connections1 lecture • 9min

Labelling5 lectures • 21min

Plugging Up The Stage2 lectures • 11min

Microphone Stands and Positioning2 lectures • 6min

Coiling Cables1 lecture • 3min

Stage Turds1 lecture • 2min

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