Dan Brockett Posted August 27 Report Share Posted August 27 Hi all: I'm partner is a live stream/live event production company and one of our clients who has a recurring weekly gig has requested that we add a sound mixer to our team. This is ironic as my partner in the company is a professional audio engineer, a very good one, but he serves as our webcast engineer and TD for this gig so he cannot perform this job. The job would entail mixing live music from a breakout feed from the venue (a pretty well know LA music venue) specifically for our live stream. The house sound mixer is strictly mixing for the house and our live streaming client is not satisfied with the mix for our live stream. We switch the show inside the venue at FOH, so we are looking to get breakouts of all of the mixer inputs sent to our own mixer, who we will locate in a quiet room backstage, and have our teams sound mixer do a great live stream mix, which our client would approve, then sending that mix back to our master control out in the venue where we are switching the show live. We own an Allen & Heath SQ5 which is capable of mixing this performance, but there is a possibility of hiring this sound mixer with their own board/outboard effects if they have a preference over using their board versus our Allen & Heath. Our mixing board may not be available every week for this gig. The client has requested to listen to demo reels/work samples of candidates work specifically mixing rock/pop/country/RB with real instrument type music with a typical ensemble of bass, guitar, drums, keyboard and three vocalists, live, not in studio, not house, EDM, electronica, they want to hear samples with something akin to the standard instruments I described recorded and mixed live on stage. So the house is doing the house mix and the house is also doing the monitor mix for the stage, but neither mix is even remotely working for the live stream broadcast so they want to make a dramatic improvement. I don't know how many total input signals there are but I would guesstimate ten to twelve, plus we usually have an ambient mic on either side of the stage for audience sound. A few things to keep in mind, assuming you are a freelancer and interested. This is a weekly gig, week in, week out on a weekend day. You must be available each week OR you must be available almost every week and if you are not available a particular week, you must provide a back up sound mixer who you have trained to do this gig who is also vetted and approved by the client. This client has a large on-line audience from all around the world and the live stream is a huge portion of their enterprise. As we all know, it's rare as a freelancer to land a weekly gig. The money isn't huge but it's decent and worthwhile. Non-union gig, freelance and the gig would typically last six to 6.5 hours total. If you are interested or know someone who is interested and has this skill set, it's pretty far from regular location sound, please email me at dan@webcastandbeyond.com We are hoping to locate the right person quickly so if you are interested, email me asap. Thanks for your interest, Dan Brockett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspire Posted August 29 Report Share Posted August 29 A decent, beautiful, interesting, well-formed offer! I wonder if anyone is doing this kind of work remotely, or does it have to be on the spot? I mean, at home office when mixing Live - in today's possibilities, this should not be impossible, or am I wrong? (Of course I will not come from Estonia to L.A., because you will not pay it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Brockett Posted October 11 Author Report Share Posted October 11 Hi Inspire: We did get a good response from this post and have hired an experienced sound mixer who is doing a great job for this gig, so thanks for responding. The remote possibilities are intriguing from a technical standpoint but we are still at a point where I still often need a sound mixer to interface with client teams at different venues, discuss, show and share Dante, AE50, Wireless Channel management, etc. in person. In our live event and broadcast work, there is still a considerable amount of hands on running cabling, etc. Perhaps at some point we could have an A2 in person and an A1 remotely? We shall see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspire Posted October 11 Report Share Posted October 11 Hi! Can I listen to your production online? For example, my wife listens to the Australian radio station Nova 100 via TuneIn, Melbourne, Australia. Thanks! It would be interesting 🥰 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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