Live Sound Advice

03/11/2022

I just found this article I wrote for Shure a while ago about how to understand and apply equalization to mixes.

Church sound pro, author and educator Mike Sokol explains the fundamentals of creating a consistently good audio mix.

01/26/2021

07/27/2018

“What does it do?” “When and how do I use it?”

07/27/2018

I'm posting hundreds of my articles about sound for worship on Sound Advice for Worship. Please share this with any worship teams you know.

All the processing in the world won’t solve your problems if bad placement creates a system with inherent sonic errors.

08/18/2017

My article on Reverse Polarity Bootleg Grounds was just republished in Mike Holt's electrical safety newsletter: http://www.mikeholt.com/newsletters.php?action=display&letterID=1804

It might come as a shock to your system, but all testers are not created equal, and the damage can be expensive..

07/22/2017

Here's an article I originally wrote for the Electrical Trades Industry which has been republished in Live Sound International Magazine.

It might come as a shock to your system, but all testers are not created equally and the damage can be expensive.

06/13/2017

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Mike Sokol

Attendees will be offered the opportunity bring tracks from their own praise teams to mix on a DiGiCo SD7 digital console with reinforcement from RCF HDL20A line arrays.

06/08/2017

My latest article on Frequency Bracketing and Carving just published in the June issue of Church Sound Magazine. Much more on this topic later...

Mix Essentials BRACKETING & CARVING Tips and techniques to improve the live worship mix. by Mike Sokol unning sound for worship ser-vices can be tough. You might not have a lot of practical expe-rience. Maybe the entire crew is made up of eager but unschooled volunteers. The sound system itself coul...

06/04/2017

I'm confirming the dates in the last week of June, but it looks like Digico is sending us their flagship SD7 mixing console for a few weeks of demos in my shop in Williamsport, MD as well as at Big Bucks Live in Martinsburg, WV. The plan is the get a few bands to play through our currently installed RCF HDL20A Line Array speakers, and you'll all get to take turns mixing them on this fantastic console. More info in a day or so once the dates are locked in.

Redefines the boundaries of live sound mixing using Stealth Digital Processing™

05/29/2017

Here's some of the technical specs from the Pink Floyd Division Bell Tour in 1994.

The Division Bell Tour in 1994 was promoted by legendary Canadian concert impresario Michael Cohl and became the highest-grossing tour in rock music history to that date. The band played the entirety of Dark Side of the Moon in some shadows, for the first time since 1975.